LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (October 2018)

This is a reference manual for LaTeX. If you want a tutorial then instead see this list.

Our goal is document all author-level commands. See below for the Table of Contents. This version of the manual has separate web pages for each section or subsection. It's also available in a single page version.

Your comments and contributions, including bug reports, are very welcome. Our home page has more information, including license information. We also provide information on how you can mirror this manual.

This document is not official. It has not been reviewed by the LaTeX maintainers.

A note about links. Some characters are troublesome on the web. One such character is backslash and so our page for the \rule command is named _005crule.html. (the hexadecimal representation of backslash is 005c). You may find easier to remember our alternative page names, in this case bs-rule.html. These alternatives replace space with a dash, `-', replace backslash with `bs' and a dash, replace @ with `at' and a dash, and replace & with `and' and a dash. For instance, you can reach the page describing \@startsection with bs-at-startsection.html.