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diff --git a/doc/user/latexe.skb b/doc/user/latexe.skb
index feca728..c9fc50b 100644
--- a/doc/user/latexe.skb
+++ b/doc/user/latexe.skb
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-;;; latexe.skb  --  The documentation of the html engine
+;;; latexe.skb  --  Documentation of the LaTeX engine.
 ;;;
 ;;; Copyright 2003, 2004  Manuel Serrano
+;;; Copyright 2007  Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr>
 ;;;
 ;;;
 ;;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -22,16 +23,20 @@
 ;*---------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 ;*    Document                                                         */
 ;*---------------------------------------------------------------------*/
-(section :title "LaTeX engine" :file #t
+(section :title "The LaTeX Engine" :file #t
    (mark "latex-engine")
    (index "LaTeX" :note "Engine")
    (p [The LaTeX engine...])
 
    
-   (subsection :title "The LaTeX customization"
+   (subsection :title "LaTeX Customization"
       
       (doc-engine 'latex
-	 `((documentclass ,[A string declaring The LaTeX document class.])
+	 `((documentclass ,[A string declaring the LaTeX document class.])
+           (class-has-chapters? ,[A boolean indicating whether the
+document class has a ,(code [chapter]) markup.  If ,(code "#f"), then
+Skribilo's ,(code [chapter]) is mapped to LaTeX' ,(code [section]), and
+so on.])
 	   (usepackage ,[The boolean ,(code "#f") if no package is used or a string declaring The LaTeX packages.])
 	   (predocument ,[The boolean ,(code "#f") or a string to be written before the \\begin{document} statement.])
 	   (postdocument ,[The boolean ,(code "#f") or a string to be written after the \\begin{document} statement.])
@@ -56,14 +61,15 @@
 	   (index-page-ref "Indexes use page references."))
 	 :source "skribilo/engine/latex.scm"))
    
-   (subsection :title "LaTeX documentclass"
+   (subsection :title "LaTeX Document Class"
       
-      (p [The default setting of the Skribe LaTeX engine is to produce
-a document using the ,(code "article") document class. In order to
-generate a document using ,(code "chapter") this must be changed because
-this LaTeX style does not define any ,(code "\\chapter") function. For
-instance, one may use the LaTeX ,(code "book") document class. Changing
-this setting can be done with expressions such as:
-,(prgm :language skribe [
-(let ((le (find-engine 'latex)))
-   (engine-custom-set! le 'documentclass "\\\\documentclass{book}"))])])))
+      (p [The default setting of the Skribilo LaTeX engine is to produce
+a document using the ,(code "article") document class.  In order to
+produce a document that uses a document class defining the ,(code
+"chapter") command (unlike the ,(code "article") class), the engine must
+be customized.  Changing this setting can be done with expressions such
+as:
+
+,(prgm :language skribe [ (let ((le (find-engine 'latex)))
+   (engine-custom-set! le 'documentclass "\\\\documentclass{book}")
+   (engine-custom-set! le 'class-has-chapters? #t))])])))