The first edition of this book appeared in 1985. It described LATEX2.09, the first widely used version of LATEX. Since then, LATEX has become extremely popular, with many thousands of users around the world. Its functionality has grown through the efforts of many people. The time has come for a new version, LATEX2 , which is described in this edition. LATEX2 includes many of the enhancements that were made to LATEX2.09, as well as some new ones. LATEX is a system for typesetting documents. Over the years, various non-standard enhancements were made to Latex 2.09 to overcome some of its limitations. LATEX input that made use of these enhancements would not work properly at all sites. LATEX needed a new version. The current version of LATEX, with the somewhat less mysterious number 2, was released in 1994. LATEX2 contains an improved method for handling different styles of type, commands for including graphics and producing colours, and many other new features.
by Leslie Lamport
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