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Errata to the Second Edition of the LATEX ManualLeslie Lamport18 Jan 2006These are all the errors and omissions to the manual, LATEX: A DocumentPreparation System, second edition, published by Addison-Wesley, reported asof 18 Jan 2006. Positions in the book are indicated by page and line number,where the top line of a page is number 1 and the bottom line is number −1. Arunning head and a page number are not considered to be lines, but all otherlines are. Please report any additional errors to me. My current email addresscan be found at http://lamport.org.Errors Corrected in the First Printingpage 25, example of verse environmentReplace {\em all\/} by \emph{all}.[First reported by Rosemary Bailey on29 Aug 1994.]page 28, first paragraphNot an error, but it would be helpful to add the following sentence to the endof that paragraph: “(If a declaration has arguments, they become additionalarguments of the corresponding environment’s \begin command.)”page 33, line 10Add \] to the list of fragile commands. [First reported by Rosemary Bailey on29 Aug 1994.]page 43, table 3.5Add an entry for \notin (/∈). [First reported by Rosemary Bailey on 29 Aug 1994.]page 72, two examplesChange {\em ...} to \emph{...} [First reported by Rosemary Bailey on 29 Aug 1994.]1
page 101This is not an error, but some readers will find it helpful if, in the descriptionsof \setlength and \addtolength,\gnat were replaced by \parskip.[Firstreported by Ellen Gilkerson on 9 Aug 1994.]page 108, lines 7 and 10This is not an error, but it might be easier to understand the example if \lenwere replaced by something like \saved.[First reported by Rosemary Bailey on29 Aug 1994.]page 139, lines −8and −9The funny break between these two lines should be eliminated. [First reportedby Malcolm Clark on 9 Aug 1994.]page 177, line −12The twocolumn option cannot be used with the letters class.page 197, lines 7 and 9The figure* environment is ended by \end{figure*}, and the table* environ-ment is ended by \end{table*}.[First reported by Malcolm Clark on 9 Aug 1994.]page 228Add a note that, before running a LaTeX2.09 file in compatibility mode inLaTeX2e, you should delete the old versions of the auxiliary files.Errors Corrected in the Second Printingpage xv, line 10“Chris Rowley” should come after “Sebastian Rahtz”. [First reported by MartinSchr¨oder on 24 April 1995.]page 29, line −10Change “error indicator line” to “error locator line”. [First reported by XavierPerramon on 2 Jan 1995.]page 37, lines 26–28Change the two sentences “None of these . . . formula.” to:2

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