# Hypertext Help with LaTeX
Environments

LaTeX provides a number of different paragraph-making environments. Each environment begins and ends in the same manner.

         \begin{environment-name}
         ....
         ....
         \end{environment-name}

Blank lines before the `\begin{}` or after the `\end{}` cause a paragraph break before or after the environment. Blank lines after the `\begin{}` or before the `\end{}` are ignored.

All declarations have an environment of the same name. However, the reverse does not always work. For example, `{\abstract Abstract text ... .}` may not give correct paragraph breaks.

## Subtopics

- abstract
- array
- center
- description
- displaymath
- enumerate
- eqnarray
- equation
- figure
- flushleft
- flushright
- itemize
- list
- math
- minipage
- picture
- quotation
- quote
- tabbing
- table
- tabular
- thebibliography
- theorem
- titlepage
- trivlist
- verbatim
- verse

See also Declarations, Counters
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