Use L^ATEX

The documentation should be written in L^ATEX. This decision was made by the LSC software committee. The primary reason for this choice was the need for the equation-writing capability of L^ATEX.

The danger in using L^ATEX is that not everyone will have the same version of L^ATEX installed on their machine. [Actually, this problem might be as bad, or worse, with some other documenting tool.] Try to help us minimize this problem by using vanilla L^ATEX.

Along with the LAL distribution, we supply a class file (lal/doc/lal.sty). Although this is helpful and it makes thing look nicer, it is not essential. You can remove it from the \usepackage[] command in the various files and they should still successfully L^ATEX without it.