NAME
	  latex	- structured text formatting and typesetting

     SYNOPSIS
	  latex	[ first	line ]

     DESCRIPTION
	  The LaTeX language is	described in the book LaTeX - A
	  Document Preparation System.	LaTeX is a TeX macro package,
	  not a	modification to	the TeX	source program,	so all the
	  capabilities described in tex(1) are present.

	  The LaTeX macros encourage writers to	think about the
	  content of their documents, rather than the form.  The
	  ideal, very difficult	to realize, is to have no formatting
	  commands (like ``switch to italic'' or ``skip	2 picas'') in
	  the document at all; instead,	everything is done by specific
	  markup instructions: ``emphasize'', ``start a	section''.

	  The primary source of	documentation for LaTeX	is the LaTeX
	  manual referenced below, and the local guide in the file
	  local-guide.tex or local.tex or some such somewhere in the
	  directory /usr/local/tex/texmf/tex.

     SEE ALSO
	  amslatex(1), amstex(1), slitex(1), tex(1),
	  Leslie Lamport, LaTeX	- A Document Preparation System,
	  Addison-Wesley, 1985,	ISBN 0-201-15790-X.