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LaTeX provides many environments for delimiting certain behavior.
An environment begins with \begin
and ends with \end
,
like this:
\begin{environment-name} ... \end{environment-name}
The environment-name at the beginning must exactly match that at
the end. For instance, the input
\begin{table*}...\end{table}
will cause an error like:
‘! LaTeX Error: \begin{table*} on input line 5 ended by
\end{table}.’
Environments are executed within a group.
• abstract: | Produce an abstract. | |
• array: | Math arrays. | |
• center: | Centered lines. | |
• description: | Labelled lists. | |
• displaymath: | Formulas that appear on their own line. | |
• document: | Enclose the whole document. | |
• enumerate: | Numbered lists. | |
• eqnarray: | Sequences of aligned equations. | |
• equation: | Displayed equation. | |
• figure: | Floating figures. | |
• filecontents: | Writing multiple files from the source. | |
• flushleft: | Flushed left lines. | |
• flushright: | Flushed right lines. | |
• itemize: | Bulleted lists. | |
• letter: | Letters. | |
• list: | Generic list environment. | |
• math: | In-line math. | |
• minipage: | Miniature page. | |
• picture: | Picture with text, arrows, lines and circles. | |
• quotation & quote: | Include a quotation. | |
• tabbing: | Align text arbitrarily. | |
• table: | Floating tables. | |
• tabular: | Align text in columns. | |
• thebibliography: | Bibliography or reference list. | |
• theorem: | Theorems, lemmas, etc. | |
• titlepage: | For hand crafted title pages. | |
• verbatim: | Simulating typed input. | |
• verse: | For poetry and other things. |