Environments

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.