2.15 Environments

An environment is a block of code contained within the commands

\begin{<env-name>}

and

\end{<env-name>}

where <env-name> is the name of the environment. The block of code is then formatted in a method specific to that environment. For example, the bfseries^2.5 environment will typeset the contents of the environment in a bold font. The following code:

\begin{bfseries}Here is some bold text.\end{bfseries}

will appear in the typeset document looking like:

Some environments also supply commands that may only be used within that environment.

Example:

The itemize environment provides a command called \item so that you can specify individual items within an unordered list:

Shopping List: \begin{itemize} \item Cabbages \item Bananas \item Apples \end{itemize}

The above will produce the following output:

Image showing typeset output (click here for a more detailed description).

Footnotes

...env-bfseries ^2.5: Note there is no backslash in the environment name.

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