TEX Tour , part 1 : The basic distribution

Introduction In this article I hope to give a ‘guided tour’ around the files that make up the basic LTEX distribution. Subsequent articles in this mini-series will cover other packages by the LTEX development team, and also some of the main contributed packages. The primary source for LTEX is the ‘CTAN ’ network of archives, so if I refer to path names of files this relates to the CTAN file structure. Note however that if you obtained LTEX as part of a ‘prepackaged’ TEX distribution, then these files may have been moved (typically documentation files may be separated from TEX source files). Hopefully this will not cause any confusion.