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+<head>
+<title>Input to LaTeX</title>
+</head>
+<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#000099" vlink="#cc0000" alink="#cc0000">
+
+<h1><font size="-2">Hypertext Help with LaTeX</font><br><font color="#cc0000">Input to LaTeX</font></h1>
+Input to LaTeX is plain text (ascii) which includes both the text of the
+document and also formatting commands. It is possible to
+<a href="ltx-165.html">split the input</a> into several files using:
+<ul>
+<li><a href="ltx-245.html"><tt>\include</tt></a>
+<li><a href="ltx-248.html"><tt>\input</tt></a>
+</ul>
+<p>
+Space characters separate words. Two space characters in a row are
+equivalent to a single space character. The end of line is also
+equivalent to a space character. (However, a percent sign,
+<a href="ltx-434.html"><tt>%</tt></a>, can end a line without
+generating a space character.) Generally, space characters at the beginning
+of a line are ignored.
+<p>
+An empty or blank line between two lines of text defines
+<a href="ltx-111.html">a new paragraph</a>.
+Two blank lines are equivalent to one.
+<h2>Special Characters</h2>
+The following ten characters are <a href="ltx-164.html">Special LaTeX
+Characters</a>:
+<pre><tt> $ & % # _ { } ~ ^ \ </tt>
+</pre>
+If entered directly in the input they cause LaTeX to do something special.
+You can get the following seven of them into your document by simply
+preceding them with a backslash (<tt>\</tt>):
+<pre><tt> $ & % # _ { } </tt>
+</pre>
+To get the other three (<tt> ~ ^ \ </tt>) in
+your output requires <a href="ltx-164.html">more work</a>.
+
+<h2>LaTex Commands</h2>
+Commands take one of two forms
+<ul><li>a backslash (<tt>\</tt>) followed by a single special character
+ <li>a bacslash (<tt>\</tt>) followed by a string of letters
+</ul>
+The second case is case-sensitive;
+<a href="ltx-405.html"><tt>\Gamma</tt></a> is different from
+<a href="ltx-405.html"><tt>\gamma</tt></a>.
+These commands are terminated by a nonletter, i.e., a blank, a number,
+a punctuation mark or special character.
+<p>
+Commands may have mandatory arguments, which are input in braces
+(<tt>{}</tt>).
+They may also have optional arguments, which are input in square brackets
+(<tt>[]</tt>).
+<p>
+For commands which produce text a trailing blank may be interpreted as the
+end of the command, which does not automatically create a space, so
+ you may have to do something to create an
+<a href="ltx-431.html">interword space</a> after this text.
+
+<h2><a name="structure">Structure of Input</a></h2>
+LaTeX input normally begins with a
+<a href="ltx-22.html"><tt>\documentstyle</tt></a> command. (In LaTeX2e
+this is replaced with a <a href="versions.html"><tt>\documentclass</tt></a>
+command.)
+<p>
+The beginning of the document text follows a <tt>\begin{document}</tt>
+command.
+<p>
+Input between the <tt>\documentstyle</tt> and <tt>\begin{document}</tt>
+is called the <em>preamble</em> and typically contains <a href="ltx-17.html">new
+command definitions</a>, information for the
+<a href="ltx-263.html">title</a>, <a href="declarations.html">declarations</a>
+which affect things like <a href="ltx-176.html">Typefaces</a>, etc.
+<p>
+The document text (and generally also the LaTeX input) is terminated by a
+<tt>\end{document}</tt> command.
+<p>
+It is possible to obtain some of the input from <a href="ltx-165.html">external
+files</a>, i.e., those which are not the main file input to the LaTeX program.
+<hr>
+See also
+<ul>
+<li><a href="ltx-165.html">Splitting the input</a>
+<li><a href="ltx-164.html">Special Characters</a>
+<li><a href="ltx-99.html">Line and Page Breaking</a>
+<li><a href="ltx-111.html">Making Paragraphs</a>
+<li><a href="ltx-143.html">Spaces and Boxes</a>
+</ul>
+Back to the <a href="ltx-2.html">Table of Contents</a>
+<hr>
+<address>
+Revised: Sheldon Green, 30 Oct 1995.
+</address>
+</body>
+</html>