LaTeX

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LaTeX is a markup language for generating print-quality typesetting.
It is mostly used academic circles, primarily in the natural sciences, for creating material for scientific publications.


How it works

A LaTeX document structure is comparable to HTML: There is a preamble which indicates some basic, overall features of the document, and there is the main document with

Code example

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,notitlepage]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ucs}
\author{Morten Juhl Johansen}
\title{LaTeX article}
\begin{document}
This is the beginning of a \LaTeX article!
\end{document}