The LAML manuals, and more generally manuals produced by SchemeDoc and the manual document style, make use of CSS stylesheets. Below we give an overview of the CSS classes that are used in a manual document.
Following the top indexes of a manual pages comes a number of manual sections, each with a number of manual entries. All manual sections and entries have a tabular layout with four columns:
| Col 1 | Col 2 | Col 3 | Col 4 |
| ... | ... | ... | ... |
As an example:
| Name of some function | |||
| Kind | Info about kind | ||
| Kind | Subkind | Info about subkind | |
| Subkind | Info about subkind | ||
| ... | ... | ... | ... |
Many of the rows join two or more cells with a colspan attribute. Similarly, rowspan attributes are used to join rows in certain situations. As a consequence of this table organization many of the stylesheet rules are associated with td elements.
A few classes are associated with level 2 manual pages and manual sections. The level 2 pages and sections are nested in top level entries (level 1). As of now, we do not support level 3 and beyond.
The following classes are used in manual stylesheets:
| Class name | Hosting element | Explanation |
| manual-table | table | The table which holds all manual entries and manual sections. Only one such table exists in a single manual. |
| manual-author-element | span | The elements in author information of the manual |
| manual-abstract | div | The manual abstract |
| manual-body | body | The body of the manual page |
| manual-title | h1 | The title of the manual page |
| manual-section | tr | The manual section row |
| manual-section | td | The manual section row. Spans all four columns |
| manual-section-level-2 | td | The manual row of nested sections. Spans all four columns |
| manual-section-description | td | The text of a manual section. Spans all four columns |
| manual-header-title | td | The title (in the first column cell) of the alphabetic index |
| manual-header-form | td | The form (in the second column cell) of the alphabetic index |
| manual-header-description | td | The description (in the third column cell) of the alphabetic index |
| manual-plain-title | td | The title cell of a manual entry. Spans four columns. |
| manual-plain-title-level-2 | td | The title cell of a nested manual entry. Spans four columns. |
| manual-plain-section-title | span | The title of a manual section. Spans four columns. |
| manual-plain-section-title-level-2 | span | The title of a nested section. Spans four columns. |
| manual-plain-entry-kind | td | The marking of kind of entries. Such as 'Form' and 'Description' |
| manual-plain-form | td | The form line of a manual entry. Spans three columns |
| manual-plain-condition | td | The precondition and postcondition of a manual entry. Spans three columns |
| manual-plain-description | td | The description line of a manual entry. Spans three columns |
| manual-plain-parameter-name | td | A single parameter name. |
| manual-plain-parameter-description | td | A sigle parameter description |
| manual-plain-example | td | An example line of a manual entry. Spans three columns |
| manual-plain-reference-role | td | The word appearing after 'See also'. The role of a reference. Followed by the reference anchor |
| manual-plain-reference-anchor | td | The anchored link of a reference. Comes just after the reference role |
| manual-plain-comment | td | An internal remark of a manual entry. |
| manual-plain-misc | td | A miscellaneous line of a manual entry |
| manual-plain-returns | td | A return line of a manual entry |
| manual-plain-form | td | A form line of a manual entry |
| manual-plain-xml-content-model | td | An XML content model line of a manual entry which describes a mirror function of an XML element |
| manual-plain-attribute-name | td | An attribute name of a mirror function of an XML element |
| manual-plain-attribute-type | td | An attribute type of a mirror function of an XML element |
| manual-plain-attribute-description | td | An attribute description of a mirror function of an XML element |
| manual-plain-end-of-entry | td | A cell in an empty row inserted after the last row in a manual entry. Used to make a termination or vertical space |
| manual-plain-end-of-entry | hr | A horizontal rule in the ending entry mentioned above. Can be eliminated by zero width |
| manual-plain-external-reference | a | The anchored link of an external reference |
| manual-plain-internal-reference | a | The anchored link of an internal reference |
See also the concrete manual stylesheets in the manual software stylesheet directory.