[buug] latex (pronounced Lay-tech)

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Wed Nov 13 12:16:24 PST 2002


Quoting Jon McClintock (jammer at weak.org):

> We use LaTeX (pronounced "Lah-Tech", btw) here at work for some of our
> "publications". It's got it's idiosyncracies, but overall, it works
> fairly well. If you can grok HTML, you can grok TeX. 

Specifically, LaTeX is a front-end macro package, which drives an
open-source implementation of Donald Knuth's TeX low-level typesetting
engine called teTeX.  

It's also sometimes nice to work from a graphical "What You See Is What
You Mean" front-end to LaTeX called LyX (with the minor disadvantage of
not having all of LaTeX accessible, when you do).

Style rulesets and consistent formatting are cool.

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