1.1.2 L^ATEX

L^ATEX is a macro package which enables authors to typeset and print their work at the highest typographical quality, using a predefined, professional layout. L^ATEX was originally written by  Leslie Lamport [1]. It uses the TEX formatter as its typesetting engine.

Recently the L^ATEX package has been updated by the  L^ATEX3 team, led by  Frank Mittelbach, to include some long-requested improvements and to reunify all the patched versions which have cropped up since the release of  L^ATEX 2.09 some years ago. To distinguish the new version from the old, it is called  L^ATEX2_e. This documentation deals with L^ATEX2_e.

L^ATEX is pronounced ``Lay-tech'' or ``Lah-tech.'' If you refer to L^ATEX in an ASCII environment you type LaTeX. L^ATEX2_e is pronounced ``Lay-tech two e'' and typed LaTeX2e.