Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files ==== What is TeX? ==== TeX is a typesetting system written by Donald E. Knuth, who says in the Preface to his book on TeX (see books about TeX) that it is //"intended for the creation of beautiful books - and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics".// TeX is a macro processor, and offers its users a powerful programming capability. For this reason, TeX on its own is a pretty difficult beast to deal with, so Knuth provided a package of macros for use with TeX called Plain TeX; Plain TeX is effectively the minimum set of macros one can usefully employ with TeX, together with some demonstration versions of higher-level commands (the latter are better regarded as models than used as-is). When people say they're "programming in TeX", they usually mean they're programming in Plain TeX. ==== What is LaTeX? ==== LaTeX is a TeX macro package, originally written by Leslie Lamport, that provides a document processing system. LaTeX allows markup to describe the structure of a document, so that the user need not think about presentation. By using document classes and add-on packages, the same document can be produced in a variety of different layouts. Lamport says that LaTeX "represents a balance between functionality and ease of use". This shows itself as a continual conflict that leads to the need for such things as FAQs: LaTeX can meet most user requirements, but finding out how is often tricky. ==== {La}TeX and dokuwiki ==== <latex> \begin{equation} \left[ {\bf X} + {\rm a} \ \geq\ \underline{\hat a} \sum_i^N \lim_{x \rightarrow k} \delta C \right] \end{equation} </latex> <latex> E=mc^2 </latex> ==== linkxz ==== * TeX/LaTeX tools for the macintosh http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/) * the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network http://www.ctan.org/) * [[Documentation Notes]] * a (La)TeX encyclopaedia http://tex.loria.fr/english/index.html) * setting up emacs and auctex >> http://turtle.as.arizona.edu/jdsmith/latex_emacs.php) Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International latex.1182969678.txt.gz Last modified: 2007-06-27 18:41by nik