Преглед на кодот на LaTeX

[[Слика:LaTeX.png|thumb|Логото на LaTeX]]

LaTeX е маркап јазик за документи и систем за подготовка на документи за [[TeX]] програмата за составување. Користењето на систем за подготовка се однесува на пишувањето на текстот во одредена датотека, кој откако ќе биде компајлиран ќе го прикаже документот како што корисникот сака. Така, името на LaTeX со негова синтакса може да се стилизира во: \mathrm{L\!\!^{{}_{\scriptstyle A}} \!\!\!\!\!\;\; T\!_{\displaystyle E} \! X}.

It is widely used by mathematicians, scientists, philosophers, engineers, and scholars in academia and the commercial world, and by others as a primary or intermediate format (e.g. translating DocBook and other XML-based formats to PDF) because of the quality of typesetting achievable by TeX. It offers programmable desktop publishing features and extensive facilities for automating most aspects of typesetting and desktop publishing, including numbering and cross-referencing, tables and figures, page layout and bibliographies.

LaTeX is intended to provide a high-level language to access the power of TeX. LaTeX essentially comprises a collection of TeX macros, and a program to process LaTeX documents. Since TeX's formatting commands are very low-level, it is usually much simpler for end-users to use LaTeX.

LaTeX was originally written in the early 1980s by Leslie Lamport at SRI International,[1] and has become the dominant method for using TeX—few people write in plain TeX anymore. The current version is \mathrm{L\!\!^{{}_{\scriptstyle A}} \!\!\!\!\!\;\; T\!_{\displaystyle E} \! X} \, 2_{\displaystyle \varepsilon} (LaTeX2e). LaTeX, like TeX, is free software.