pdfcslatex1
Structured text formatting and typesetting
Part of latex(1).
Usage
latex [first-line]
Overview
This manual page is a mere skeleton.
The LaTeX language is described in the book LaTeX - A Document Preparation System. LaTeX is a TeX macro package, not a modification to the TeX source program, so all the capabilities described in tex(1) are present.
The LaTeX macros encourage writers to think about the content of their documents, rather than the form. The ideal, very difficult to realize, is to have no formatting commands (like ``switch to italic'' or ``skip 2 picas'') in the document at all; instead, everything is done by specific markup instructions: ``emphasize'', ``start a section''.
The primary source of documentation for LaTeX is the LaTeX manual referenced below.
lualatex, pdflatex, pdfcslatex, xelatex are LaTeX formats based on the respective engines. All output PDF by default.
platex, uplatex are Japanese LaTeX formats based on e-pTeX and e-upTeX (DVI output).
lamed is the Aleph-based LaTeX format (DVI output).
dvilualatex is LuaTeX-based and outputs DVI.
cslatex is csTeX-based (primitives integrated into pdfTeX) and outputs DVI.
On some systems latex209 and slitex may still be available for compatibility with older versions of LaTeX. These should not be used for new texts.
History
- Debian 12 (Bookworm): the text shown here
- Debian 11 (Bullseye)
- Debian 10 (Buster)
- Debian 9 (Stretch)
- Debian 8 (Jessie)
- Debian 7 (Wheezy)
- Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
- Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
- Debian 4.0 (Etch)
-draftmode until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-enc until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-etex until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-file-line-error until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-file-line-error-style until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-halt-on-error until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-help until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-ini until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-ipc until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-ipc-start until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-mltex until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-no-file-line-error until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-no-parse-first-line until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-no-shell-escape until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-parse-first-line until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-recorder until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-shell-escape until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-src-specials until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-version until Debian 9 (Stretch).