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 AIM- Demonstration and Practice of various features LaTeX – document preparation, presentation

The Latex is a high-quality typesetting system, used for the documentation of scientific and technical documents. It is widely used in academia for the communication and the publication of scientific papers popularly in fields such as economics, sociology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, engineering, etc. It also handles the formatting layout of different structures. The name is stylized as LATEX.

What is Latex?

LaTeX is pronounced as 'lah-tech' or 'lay-tech.' which is distributed under the LPPL (Latex Project Public License). It is based on TEX, a typesetting language designed for science and math. Both LATEX and TEX contain a variety of font styles, such as serif, typewriter, and a set of mathematical functions. It is an open-source and powerful document preparation system. The Latex system handles the layout and formatting of the structures using familiar concepts of the section, table, figure, chapter, etc. It follows the philosophy of separate presentation, i.e., separating the writing contents and the visual appearance so that the authors can focus more on the content rather than its appearance. It is named as the standard for the communication and publication of the technical or scientific documents.

Features of Latex

• Latex is a markup language and free license software. It includes a set of built-in commands.
• It is a mode of mathematical and special symbols.
• LaTeX is generally distributed along with plain TEX, i.e., it provides a set of macros for TEX to interpret. The other macros for TEX are Plain TEX, GNU Texinfo, etc.
• LaTeX is not compatible with the GNU (General Public License). It is available on most of the operating systems like UNIX, BSD, Linux, Windows, DOS, etc.

TeX

TeX is a typesetting system or the formatting system written and designed by Donald Knuth released in 1978. It is the most used typographical system. It performs many typesetting tasks, especially Latex. It is popular in mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics, statistics, economics, etc. It was developed to produce high-quality output. The books published in TEX are Addison Wesley, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, etc. It was primarily designed for typeset mathematics.

Donald Knuth was not satisfied with the second edition, so he was motivated to design his typesetting system. He saw the high-quality output of digital typesetting and became interested in it. On May 13, 1977, he had written a memo, which describes the basic features of TEX. The first version of Tex was written in the SAIL programming language. A new version of Tex called TEX82, which was published in 1982.

The current version of TEX is 3.14159265, which was updated on January 12, 2014. The design was frozen after the version 3.0, and all the newer version contains no other additional features, but only contains the bug fixing feature.

You need TEX live to write into the Latex. But if you want to compile your document to a single PDF and edit with the syntax colorization, you must need the Latex editor.