LaTeX

The LaTeX command typesets a file of text using the TeX program and the LaTeX Macro package for TeX. To be more specific, it processes an input file containing the text of a document with interspersed commands that describe how the text should be formatted. It produces at least three files as output:

1. A "Device Independent ", or ".dvi" file. This contains commands that can be translated into commands for a variety of output devices. You can view the output of LaTeX by using a program such as xdvi, which actually uses the ".dvi" file.
2. A "transcript" or ".log" file that contains summary information and diagnostic messages for any errors discovered in the input file.
3. An "auxiliary" or ".aux" file. This is used by LaTeX itself, for things such as sectioning.

For more information on an overview of LaTex

Other Helpful Links

All About LaTeX2HTML by Nikos Drakos

MIT’s LaTeX2e page

LaTeX Commands

TEX home site

Tutorials

TeX/LaTeX

Guida locale all'uso del LaTeX PDF (Roberto Cecchini)

LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung DVI (Jörg Knappen, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, Elisabeth Schlegl)

The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e ps (translation)

The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e ps (translation)