For a general introduction to LaTeX, including the new features of
LaTeX2e, you should read <#55#>LaTeX: A Document Preparation System<#55#>
by Leslie Lamport~[#AWLLa94##1#].
A more detailed description of the new features of LaTeX, including
an overview of more than 150 packages, is to be found in
<#57#>The LaTeX Companion<#57#> by Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach and Alexander
Samarin~[#AWGMS94##1#].
For more information about the many new LaTeX<#59#><#59#> packages you should
read the package documentation, which should be available from the
same source as your copy of LaTeX.
There are a number of documentation files which accompany every copy
of LaTeX. A copy of <#653#>LaTeX<#60#><#60#> News<#653#> will come out with each
six-monthly release of LaTeX; it will be found in the files
3. The class- and package-writer's guide <#61#>LaTeX2e for Class and Package Writers<#61#>
describes the new LaTeX<#62#><#62#> features for writers of document classes
and packages; it is in 4. The guide <#63#>LaTeX2e Font Selection<#63#>
describes the LaTeX<#64#><#64#> font selection scheme for class- and
package-writers; it is in 5.
We are gradually turning the source code for LaTeX<#65#><#65#> into a LaTeX<#66#><#66#>
document <#67#>LaTeX: the program<#67#>. This document includes an index of
LaTeX<#68#><#68#> commands and can be typeset from 6.
For more information about TeX<#69#><#69#> and LaTeX, please contact your
local TeX<#70#><#70#> Users Group, or the international TeX<#71#><#71#> Users Group (see
page #addrs#72>).