LATEX209(1)
π LATEX209(1) β the General Commands Manual glow-up β¨
okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about latex209 π
this is the manual page for it, section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and it's short but it's iconic. let's get into it π¦
πΈ NAME πΈ
latex209 β structured text formatting and typesetting
β¨ SYNOPSIS β¨
latex209
that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no arguments, just you and the command π
π DESCRIPTION π
so like, latex209 exists to process ancient LaTeX sources. capital-A Ancient. we're talking archival, museum-piece, "found in a fossil layer" LaTeX π¦β¨
if you wanna process modern LaTeX sources instead, then bestie, you should try latex instead of this command. like, genuinely. that's not me being shady, that's literally what the manual says π
not me gatekeeping β this one is lowkey just here for the old stuff, fr fr π
π SEE ALSO π
π«Ά AUTHOR π«Ά
this manual page was written by TSUCHIYA Masatoshi <tsuchiya@namazu.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system β but like, it may be used by others too π so go off, it's for everyone.
and that's the whole page, bestie! no cap. it's from the General Commands Manual, it's LATEX209(1), and it ate π
β¨ periodt ππ¦πΈ
π¦ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: latex209-bin 25.mar.1992-21
- debian trixie: latex209-bin 25.mar.1992-22
- ubuntu jammy: latex209-bin 25.mar.1992-21
- ubuntu noble: latex209-bin 25.mar.1992-21
- ubuntu questing: latex209-bin 25.mar.1992-22
- ubuntu resolute: latex209-bin 25.mar.1992-22build1
- ubuntu stonking: latex209-bin 25.mar.1992-22build1
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms