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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. |