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This document is an unofficial reference manual (version of July 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.
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| • 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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