Further information

For a general introduction to L^ATEX, including the new features of L^ATEX2_e, you should read LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, Leslie Lamport, Addison Wesley, 2nd ed, 1994. A more detailed description of the L^ATEX font selection scheme is to be found in The LaTeX Companion, Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin, Addison Wesley, 1994. The L^ATEX font selection scheme is based on TEX, which is described by its developer in The TEXbook, Donald E. Knuth, Addison Wesley, 1986, revised in 1991 to include the features of TEX 3. Sebastian Rahtz's psnfss software contains the software for using a large number of Type 1 fonts (including the Adobe Laser Writer 35 and the Monotype CD-ROM fonts) in L^ATEX. It should be available from the same source as your copy of L^ATEX. The psnfss software uses fonts generated by Alan Jeffrey's fontinst software. This can convert fonts from Adobe Font Metric format into a format readable by L^ATEX, including the generation of the font definition files described in Section 4. The fontinst software should be available from the same source as your copy of L^ATEX. Whenever practical, L^ATEX uses the font naming scheme called `fontname'; this was described in Filenames for fonts, TUGboat 11(4), 1990.

The class-writer's guide LaTeX2e for Class and Package Writers describes the new L^ATEX features for writers of document classes and packages and is kept in clsguide.tex. Configuring L^ATEX is covered by the guide Configuration options for LaTeX2e in cfgguide.tex whilst the philosophy behind our policy on modifying L^ATEX is described in Modifying LaTeX in modguide.tex. We are gradually turning the source code for L^ATEX into a L^ATEX document LaTeX: the program. This document includes an index of L^ATEX commands and can be typeset from source2e.tex. For more information about TEX and L^ATEX, please contact your local TEX Users Group, or the international TEX Users Group. Here are some useful addresses.

  TEX Users Group, P.O. Box 1239, Three Rivers, CA 93271-1239, USA
Fax: +1 209 561 4584 Email: tug@mail.tug.org UK TUG, 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4LB, UK
Fax: +44 121 476 2159 Email: uktug-enquiries@tex.ac.uk