This is how Wikipedia defines LaTeX: LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program.
It is widely used by mathematicians, scientists, 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.
See the eLML to LaTeX chapter for more information.
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