LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (April 2021)

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LaTeX2e: An unofficial reference manual

This document is an unofficial reference manual (version of April 2021) for LaTeX2e, a document preparation system.

• About this document  Bug reporting, etc.
• Overview  What is LaTeX?
• Document classes  Some of the various classes available.
• Fonts  Italic, bold, typewriter, etc.
• Layout  Controlling the page layout.
• Sectioning  Parts, Chapters, Sections, etc.
• Cross references  Automatic referencing.
• Environments  Such as enumerate & itemize.
• Line breaking  Influencing line breaks.
• Page breaking  Influencing page breaks.
• Footnotes  How to produce footnotes.
• Definitions  Define your own commands, etc.
• Counters  Internal counters used by LaTeX.
• Lengths  The length commands.
• Making paragraphs  Paragraph commands.
• Math formulas  How to create mathematical formulas.
• Modes  Paragraph, Math or LR modes.
• Page styles  Various styles of page layout.
• Spaces  Horizontal and vertical space.
• Boxes  Making boxes.
• Color  Defining and using colors.
• Graphics  Importing graphics from outside LaTeX.
• Special insertions  Inserting reserved and special characters.
• Splitting the input  Dealing with big files by splitting.
• Front/back matter  Tables of contents, glossaries, indexes.
• Letters  The letter class.
• Input/output  User interaction.
• Command line interface  Common command-line options.
• Document templates  Starter templates for various document classes.
• Index  General index.

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Unofficial LaTeX2e reference manual