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L
A
TEX2
ε
for authors
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Copyright 1995–2001, L
A
TEX3 Project Team.All rights reserved.31 July 2001
Contents
1 Introduction 2
1.1 L
A
TEX2
ε
—The new L
A
TEX release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.2 L
A
TEX3—The long-term future of L
A
TEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.3 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.4 Further information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Classes and packages 5
2.1 What are classes and packages? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.2 Class and package options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.3 Standard classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.4 Standard packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.5 Related software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3 Commands 11
3.1 Initial commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113.2 Preamble commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113.3 Document structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133.4 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.5 Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163.6 Measuring things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.7 Line endings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.8 Controlling page breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183.9 Floats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183.10 Font changing: text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193.11 Font changing: math . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203.12 Ensuring math mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203.13 Setting text superscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.14 Text commands: all encodings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.15 Text commands: the T1 encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233.16 Logos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
 
3.17 Picture commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253.18 Old commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4 L
A
TEX 2.09 documents 26
4.1 Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264.2 Font selection problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.3 Native mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5 Local modifications 286 Problems 29
6.1 New error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296.2 Old internal commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316.3 Old files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326.4 Where to go for more help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7 Enjoy! 33
1 Introduction
Welcome to L
A
TEX2
ε
, the new standard version of the L
A
TEX Document Prepa-ration System.This document describes how to take advantage of the new features of L
A
TEX,and how to process your old L
A
TEX documents with L
A
TEX2
ε
. However, thisdocument is only a brief introduction to the new facilities and is intended forauthors who are already familiar with the old version of L
A
TEX. It is
not 
areference manual for L
A
TEX2
ε
nor is it a complete introduction to L
A
TEX.
1.1 L
A
TEX2
ε
—The new L
A
TEX release
The previous version of L
A
TEX was known as L
A
TEX 2.09. Over the years manyextensions have been developed for L
A
TEX. This is, of course, a sure sign of itscontinuing popularity but it has had one unfortunate result: incompatible L
A
TEXformats came into use at different sites. This included ‘standard L
A
TEX 2.09’,L
A
TEX built with the
New Font Selection Scheme
(
NFSS
),
Sli
TEX,
AMS 
-L
A
TEX,and so on. Thus, to process documents from various places, a site maintainerwas forced to keep multiple versions of the L
A
TEX program. In addition, whenlooking at a source file it was not always clear for which format the documentwas written.To put an end to this unsatisfactory situation, L
A
TEX2
ε
has been produced; itbrings all such extensions back under a single format and thus prevents the pro-liferation of mutually incompatible dialects of L
A
TEX 2.09. With L
A
TEX2
ε
the‘new font selection scheme’ is standard and, for example,
amsmath
(formerly2
 
the
AMS 
-L
A
TEX format) or
slides
(formerly the
Sli
TEX format) are simply ex-tensions, which may be loaded by documents using the same base format.The introduction of a new release also made it possible to add a small numberof often-requested features and to make the task of writing packages and classessimpler.
1.2 L
A
TEX3—The long-term future of L
A
TEX
L
A
TEX2
ε
is the consolidation step in a comprehensive reimplementation of theL
A
TEX system. The next major release of L
A
TEX will be L
A
TEX3, which willinclude a radical overhaul of the document designers’ and package writers’ in-terface to L
A
TEX.L
A
TEX3 is a long-term research project but, until it is completed, the projectteam are committed to the active maintenance of L
A
TEX2
ε
. Thus the experi-ence gained from the production and maintenance of L
A
TEX2
ε
will be a majorinfluence on the design of L
A
TEX3. A brief description of the project can befound in the document
ltx3info.tex
.If you would like to support the project then you are welcome to send donationsto the L
A
TEX3 Project Fund; this has been set up to help the research team byfinancing various expenses associated with this voluntary work of maintainingthe current L
A
TEX and developing L
A
TEX3.The fund is administered by The TEX Users Group and by various local usergroups. Information about making donations and joining these groups is avail-able from:
TEX Users Group, P.O. Box 1239, Three Rivers, CA 93271-1239, USAFax: +1 209 561 4584 Email:
tug@mail.tug.org
UK TUG, 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4LB, UKFax: +44 121 476 2159 Email:
uktug-enquiries@tex.ac.uk
The L
A
TEX3 project has its home page on the World Wide Web at:
http://www.latex-project.org/
This page describes L
A
TEX and the L
A
TEX3 project, and contains pointers to otherL
A
TEX resources, such as the user guides, the TEX Frequently Asked Questions,and the L
A
TEX bugs database.Older articles covering aspects of the L
A
TEX3 project are also available for anony-mous ftp from the Comprehensive TEX Archive, in the directory:
tex-archive/info/ltx3pub
The file
ltx3pub.bib
in that directory contains an abstract of each of the files.3
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