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
• array
• center
• description
• displaymath
• document
• enumerate
• eqnarray
• equation
• figure
• filecontents
• flushleft
• flushright
• itemize
• letter environment: writing letters
• list
• math
• minipage
• picture
• quotation & quote
• tabbing
• table
• tabular
• thebibliography
• theorem
• titlepage
• verbatim
• verse