This file documents LaTeX2e, a document preparation system. LaTeX2e is a macro package for TeX. This is edition 1.2 of the LaTeX2e documentation, and is for the Texinfo that is distributed as part of Version 19 of GNU Emacs. It uses version 2.90 of the texinfo.tex input file. This is translated from LATEX.HLP v1.0a in the VMS Help Library. The pre-translation version was written by George D. Greenwade of Sam Houston State University. The LaTeX 2.09 version was written by Stephen Gilmore (stg@dcs.ed.ac.uk). The LaTeX2e version was adapted from this by Torsten Martinsen (torsten@kom.auc.dk). Copyright 1988,1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright 1994 Torsten Martinsen. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that the sections entitled "Distribution" and "General Public License" may be included in a translation approved by the author instead of in the original English.