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+<head>
+<title>Hypertext Help with LaTeX</title>
+</head>
+<body bgcolor="#ffffff"
+text="#000000" link="#000099" vlink="#cc0000" alink="#cc0000">
+
+<h1><font color="#cc0000">Hypertext Help with LaTeX</font></h1>
+
+<p>LaTeX is a word processing (or, more accurately, a typesetting)
+program. It typesets a file of text using the TeX program and
+the LaTeX Macro package for TeX. It does this by processing an
+input file containing the text of a document with interspersed
+commands that describe how the text should be formatted.</p>
+
+<p>Unike many word processing programs, which concentrate on formatting
+material on the page (often called WYSIWYG, for "what you see is what
+you get"), LaTeX concentrates on "content."
+LaTeX is a Generalized Mark-up Language macro package for the TeX
+typesetting program. That is, one specifies
+the structure: sections, title, appendix, authors' names, etc.,
+which bear little relation to how this will look on a page.
+That is determined by the
+<a href="ltx-22.html">document style</a>
+files (*.sty);
+standard ones are provided for such things as articles, reports,
+books, and letters. However, these style files may be readily replaced
+by others, giving a completely different look.
+Of course, it is possible in LaTeX to specify much about
+the physical layout, but this tends
+to be done with commands that define things like space between lines or
+amount to indent paragraphs rather than by positioning each piece of text
+on the page as is typical in WYSIWYG systems.</p>
+
+<p>LaTeX produces
+as output a Device Independent (*.dvi) file that contains
+commands that can be translated into commands for a variety of output
+devices. It also produces a transcript or log (*.log) file
+that contains summary
+information and diagnostic messages for any errors discovered in the
+input file and an auxiliary (*.aux) file which contains cross
+refererence information for Tables, citations, etc. It is sometimes
+necessary to run LaTeX twice so that it has correct cross reference
+information, especially when modifications have changed the numbering.</p>
+
+<p>These hypertext help files are meant to provide reference information
+for those with some familiarity with LaTeX. They are not an introduction
+or tutorial.</p>
+
+
+<dl>
+ <dt><big><b><a href="ltx-2.html">Table of Contents</a></b></big>
+ <dd>Links to help by subject, LaTeX command, or environment
+ <p></p>
+
+ <dt><big><b><a href="versions.html">Notes on Versions</a></b></big>
+ <dd>LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e
+ <p></p>
+
+ <dt><big><b><a href="refs.html">Reference Books</a></b></big>
+ <p></p>
+
+ <dt><big><b><a href="LaTeX-info.html">About these files</a></b></big>
+ <dd>Plus info on how to obtain them via ftp
+ <p></p>
+
+ <dt><big><b><a href="externals.html">LaTeX resources on the Web</a></b></big>
+ <dd>Including REVTeX, AMSTeX, and AASTeX
+ <p></p>
+
+ <dt><big><b><a href="mirror.html">Mirrors of this site</a></b></big>
+ <dd>Copies of these files which might provide faster access
+ <p></p>
+
+</ul>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+
+<p>These pages were originally created by
+<a href="http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/sgreen/">Sheldon Green</a>,
+who passed away in December 1995.
+Updates subsequent to Dr. Green's death have been made only for
+purposes of page formatting and link verification.
+Please contact
+<a href="mailto:webmaster@giss.nasa.gov">webmaster@giss.nasa.gov</a>
+if you are interested in assisting with maintenance and updates to
+these pages.</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<address>
+Updated: 1998-12-03, RBS
+</address>
+
+</body>
+</html>