LaTeX Document Markup Language
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A LaTeX Document Markup Language is a Document Markup Language that extends the TeX document markup language.
- AKA: [math]\displaystyle{ \LaTeX }[/math].
- Context:
- It can be referenced by a LaTeX Document.
- It can be implemented by a LaTeX Parser (that solves a LaTeX parsing task).
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- Example(s):
- LaTeX2e (~1994).
- LaTeX 2.09.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Document Preparation System, WikiText Math Statement, TeX, BibTeX, DocBook, XML, PDF, Mathpix Snip.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX Retrieved:2015-1-31.
- LaTeX (shortening of Lamport TeX) is a document preparation system and document markup language. It is widely used for the communication and publication of scientific documents in many fields, including mathematics, physics, computer science, statistics, economics, and political science. [1] It also has a prominent role in the preparation and publication of books and articles that contain complex multilingual materials, such as Sanskrit and Arabic, including critical editions. LaTeX uses the TeX typesetting program for formatting its output, and is itself written in the TeX macro language. LaTeX is not the name of a particular editing program, but refers to the encoding or tagging conventions that are used in LaTeX documents. LaTeX is widely used in academia. LaTeX can be used as a standalone document preparation system, or as an intermediate format. In the latter role, for example, it is often used as part of a pipeline for translating DocBook and other XML-based formats to PDF. The typesetting system offers programmable desktop publishing features and extensive facilities for automating most aspects of typesetting and desktop publishing, including numbering and cross-referencing of tables and figures, chapter and section headings, the inclusion of graphics, page layout, indexing and bibliographies. Like TeX, LaTeX started as a writing tool for mathematicians and computer scientists, but from early in its development it has also been taken up by scholars who needed to write documents that include complex math expressions or non-Latin scripts, such as Arabic, Sanskrit and Chinese. LaTeX is intended to provide a high-level language that accesses the power of TeX. LaTeX comprises a collection of TeX macros and a program to process LaTeX documents. Because the plain TeX formatting commands are elementary, it offers authors ready-made commands for common 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 (styled as). LaTeX is free software and is distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL).