LaTeX
Sign in to saveLaTeX ( or , to rhyme with "blech"), often stylized as '''''', is a software system for typesetting documents, based on the TeX typesetting system. LaTeX provides a high-level, descriptive markup language to use TeX more easily: TeX handles the document layout, while LaTeX handles the content side for document processing. Because the plain TeX formatting commands are elementary, it provides authors with ready-made commands for formatting and layout requirements such as chapter headings, footnotes, cross-references and bibliographies.
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LaTeX is a software system that makes it easier to create professionally formatted documents by letting you focus on writing content while the system handles the layout and design. It's particularly valuable because it provides built-in commands for common document elements like chapter headings, footnotes, and bibliographies, which would otherwise require complex formatting instructions.
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- LaTeX project logo bird.svg
- Software.logo caption
- The LaTeX Project logo
- Software.author
- Leslie Lamport
- Software.genre
- Typesetting
- Software.license
- LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL)
- File format.extension
- .tex
- File format.mime
- application/x-latex
- File format.latest_release_version
- LaTeX2e
- File format.genre
- Document file format
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- History
- Typesetting system
- Pronunciation and typography
- Example
- Related software
- Compatibility and converters
- Licensing
- Versions
- Adoption
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LaTeX ( or , to rhyme with "blech"), often stylized as '''''', is a software system for typesetting documents, based on the TeX typesetting system. LaTeX provides a high-level, descriptive markup language to use TeX more easily: TeX handles the document layout, while LaTeX handles the content side for document processing. Because the plain TeX formatting commands are elementary, it provides authors with ready-made commands for formatting and layout requirements such as chapter headings, footnotes, cross-references and bibliographies.
LaTeX was originally written in the early 1980s by Leslie Lamport at SRI International. The current version is LaTeX2e, first released in 1994 and incrementally updated since 2015. This update policy replaced earlier plans for a separate release of LaTeX3, which had been in development since 1989. LaTeX is free software and is distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL).