diff --git a/doc/api.tex b/doc/api.tex
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+\chapter{The Why3 Application Programming Interface}
+
+\section{Building Terms and Formulas}
+
+\section{Building Theories}
+
+\section{Buildings Tasks and calling External Provers}
+
+\section{Applying transformations}
+
+%%% Local Variables:
+%%% mode: latex
+%%% TeX-PDF-mode: t
+%%% TeX-master: "manual"
+%%% End:
diff --git a/doc/ide.tex b/doc/ide.tex
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--- a/doc/ide.tex
+++ b/doc/ide.tex
@@ -3,3 +3,10 @@
 \section{IDE}
 
 hello
+
+
+%%% Local Variables:
+%%% mode: latex
+%%% TeX-PDF-mode: t
+%%% TeX-master: "manual"
+%%% End:
diff --git a/doc/manpages.tex b/doc/manpages.tex
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+\chapter{Reference manuals for the Why3 tools}
+
+\section{Compilation, Installation}
+
+\section{The \texttt{why.conf} configuration file}
+
+\section{The \texttt{why3} command-line tool}
+
+\section{The \texttt{why3ml} tool}
+
+\section{The \texttt{why3ide} tool}
+
+
+%%% Local Variables:
+%%% mode: latex
+%%% TeX-PDF-mode: t
+%%% TeX-master: "manual"
+%%% End:
diff --git a/doc/manual.tex b/doc/manual.tex
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--- a/doc/manual.tex
+++ b/doc/manual.tex
@@ -2,8 +2,26 @@
 
 \begin{document}
 
-\chapter{Syntax}
+\title{Why3 manual}
+\author{F. Bobot \and J.-C. Filli\^atre \and C. March\'e \and A. Paskevich}
+\maketitle
+
+\cleardoublepage
+
+\tableofcontents
+
+\input{syntax.tex}
 
 \input{ide.tex}
 
+\input{api.tex}
+
+\input{manpages.tex}
+
 \end{document}
+
+%%% Local Variables:
+%%% mode: latex
+%%% TeX-PDF-mode: t
+%%% TeX-master: t
+%%% End:
diff --git a/doc/syntax.tex b/doc/syntax.tex
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+\chapter{Syntax}
+
+This chapter describes the input syntax, and informally gives its semantics,
+illustrated by examples.
+
+\section{Terms and Formulas}
+
+\section{Declarations, Theories}
+
+
+%%% Local Variables:
+%%% mode: latex
+%%% TeX-PDF-mode: t
+%%% TeX-master: "manual"
+%%% End: