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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label latex</title>
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<h3>What is LaTeX?</h3>
<p/>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.
<p/>Lamport says that LaTeX
“<em>represents a balance between functionality and ease of use</em>”.
This shows itself as a continual conflict that leads to
the need for such things as FAQs: LaTeX <em>can</em>
meet most user requirements, but finding out <em>how</em> is often
tricky.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=latex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=latex</a>
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