Accessing documentation

There are many hundreds of LaTeX classes and packages available. No book could ever explain all its features on its own. But most of those packages offer good documentation that you can easily open and read. If you work your way through this book and supplement it with the documentation of the packages mentioned, you're on the right track to becoming a LaTeX power user.

In the following chapters, you will learn about many LaTeX packages that provide additional capabilities. To be prepared, you should just know how to access package documentation.

You can open a package manual directly on your computer after you have installed LaTeX:

• On Windows computer: In the Start menu, choose the TeX Live folder, and click TeX Live command-line. Alternatively, just run the Windows cmd app.
• On a Mac or any Linux computer: Start a Terminal app.

Then, just type texdoc packagename and press Enter. For example, typing texdoc geometry opens a PDF document...