latex-base – Base sources of LaTeX

This bundle comprises the source of LaTeX itself, together with several packages which are considered part of the kernel. This bundle, together with the required packages, constitutes what every LaTeX distribution should contain.

Sources	`/macros/latex/base`
Documentation	README.md Class and package programming guide Complete LaTeX2ε news Configuration guide Cyrillic languages guide Font encoding guide Font selection guide LaTeX3 methods for document authors Modification guide User guide to LaTeX2ε (historic version)
Version	2026-06-01
Licenses	The LaTeX Project Public License 1.3c
Copyright	1989–2026 The LaTeX3 Project et al.
Maintainer	The LaTeX Project Team Frank Mittelbach
TDS archive	`latex-base.tds.zip`
Contained in	TeX Live as latex MiKTeX as ltxbase
Topics	Format Tagged PDF – partially compatible Class

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