LaTeX documentation

A complete description of Standard LaTeX can be found in:

LaTeX: A Document Preparation System

Leslie Lamport,
Addison Wesley, 2nd ed, 1994.

The LaTeX Companion

Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin,
Addison Wesley, 1994.

A recent addition to the publications closely associated with the project is:

The LaTeX Graphics Companion

Goossens, Mittelbach and Rahtz,
Addison Wesley, 1997.

This LaTeX distribution comes with documentation on several aspects of of the system. The newer features of the system are described in the following documents:

LaTeX2e for authors

describes the new features of LaTeX documents, in the file usrguide.tex;

LaTeX2e for class and package writers

describes how to produce LaTeX classes and packages, in the file clsguide.tex;

LaTeX2e font selection

describes the new features of LaTeX fonts for class and package writers, in the file fntguide.tex.

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