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diff --git a/tests/Helpers.hs b/tests/Helpers.hs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c61207153
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Helpers.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+module Helpers where
+
+import Text.Pandoc
+
+import Test.Framework
+import Test.Framework.Providers.HUnit
+import Test.HUnit hiding (Test)
+
+data Expect = Inline  Inline
+            | Inlines [Inline]
+            | Block   Block
+            | Blocks  [Block]
+
+assertPandoc :: Expect -> Pandoc -> Assertion
+assertPandoc (Inline e)  (Pandoc _ [Para [g]]) = e @=? g
+assertPandoc (Inlines e) (Pandoc _ [Para g]  ) = e @=? g
+assertPandoc (Block e)   (Pandoc _ [g]       ) = e @=? g
+assertPandoc (Blocks e)  (Pandoc _ g         ) = e @=? g
+assertPandoc _ _ = assertFailure "Wrong structur of Pandoc document."
+
+latexTest :: String-> String -> Expect -> Test
+latexTest = latexTestWithState defaultParserState
+
+latexTestWithState :: ParserState -> String -> String -> Expect -> Test
+latexTestWithState state name string exp = testCase name $ exp `assertPandoc` readLaTeX state string 
+
+blocks :: [Block] -> Pandoc
+blocks bs = Pandoc (Meta { docTitle = [], docAuthors = [], docDate = [] }) bs
+
+block :: Block -> Pandoc
+block b = blocks [b]
+
+inlines :: [Inline] -> Pandoc
+inlines is = block $ Para is
+
+inline :: Inline -> Pandoc
+inline i = inlines [i]
diff --git a/tests/Latex/Reader.hs b/tests/Latex/Reader.hs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d313b33eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Latex/Reader.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+module Latex.Reader (tests) where
+
+import Text.Pandoc.Definition
+
+import Test.Framework
+import Helpers
+
+tests :: [Test]
+tests = [ testGroup "basic" [ latexTest "simplest" "word"               
+                              (Inline  $ Str "word") 
+                              
+                            , latexTest "space"    "some text"          
+                              (Inlines $ [Str "some", Space, Str "text"])
+                              
+                            , latexTest "emphasis" "\\emph{emphasized}" 
+                              (Inline  $ Emph [Str "emphasized"])
+                            ]
+
+        , testGroup "headers" [ latexTest "1. level"      "\\section{header}"       
+                                $ Block $ Header 1 [Str "header"]
+
+                              , latexTest "2. level"      "\\subsection{header}"    
+                                $ Block $ Header 2 [Str "header"]
+
+                              , latexTest "3. level"      "\\subsubsection{header}" 
+                                $ Block $ Header 3 [Str "header"]
+
+                              , latexTest "with emphasis" "\\section{text \\emph{emph}}"
+                                $ Block $ Header 1 [Str "text", Space, Emph [Str "emph"]]
+
+                              , latexTest "with link"     "\\section{text \\href{/url}{link}}"
+                                $ Block $ Header 1 [Str "text", Space, Link [Str "link"] ("/url", "")]
+                              ]
+        ]
+
diff --git a/tests/test-pandoc.hs b/tests/test-pandoc.hs
index ae367fc53..cf7a7e5e4 100644
--- a/tests/test-pandoc.hs
+++ b/tests/test-pandoc.hs
@@ -5,9 +5,12 @@ module Main where
 import Test.Framework
 
 import qualified Old
+import qualified Latex.Reader
 
 tests :: [Test]
 tests = [ testGroup "Old" Old.tests
+        , testGroup "Latex" [ testGroup "Reader" Latex.Reader.tests
+                            ]
         ]
 
 main :: IO ()