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# LATEX documentation

A complete description of Standard LATEX can be found in:

LATEX: A Document Preparation System
  Leslie Lamport,
  Addison Wesley, 2nd ed, 1994.
The LATEX Companion
  Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin,
  Addison Wesley, 1994.

A recent addition to the publications closely associated with the project is:

The LATEX Graphics Companion
  Goossens, Mittelbach and Rahtz,
  Addison Wesley, 1997.

This LATEX distribution comes with documentation on several aspects of of the system. The newer features of the system are described in the following documents:

LATEX2e for authors
  describes the new features of LATEX documents, in the file `usrguide.tex`;
LATEX2e for class and package writers
  describes how to produce LATEX classes and packages, in the file `clsguide.tex`;
LATEX2e font selection
  describes the new features of LATEX fonts for class and package writers, in the file `fntguide.tex`.

For further contacts and sources of information on TEX and LATEX, see the addresses on Page .