Environments (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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## 8 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.

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