979 B
979 B
| name | short | date | online | location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LaTeX: A Document Processor | Typesetting beautiful text | Thu Feb 06 2003 19:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) | false | MC1085 |
Unix was one of the first electronic typesetting platforms. The innovative AT&T troff system allowed researches at Bell Labs to generate high quality camera-ready proofs for their papers. Later, Donald Knuth invented a typesetting system called TE
X, which was far superior to other typesetting systems in the 1980s. However, it was still a typesetting language, where one had to specify exactly how text was to be set.
LA
TE
X is a macro package for the TE
X system that allows an author to describe his document's function, thereby typesetting the text in an attractive and correct way. In addition, one can define semantic tags to a document, in order to describe the meaning of the document; rather than the layout.