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This chapter describes those features of LATEX that justify the subtitle of Leslie Lamport's original books, 'A Document Preparation System'. Whereas in the previous chapters we have concentrated more on markup, logical and typographical, we now present topics that are essential for producing large, complex documents in an efficient manner. The subjects included here are the splitting of a document into several files, selective processing of parts of a document, cross-references to sections, figures, and equations, automated production of bibliographies, indices, and glossaries.