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How exactly are TeX and LaTeX related? [duplicate]
I know that plain TeX is the low-level typographical language that describes nearly every aspect of presentation, taking care of things like paragraph breaks, new pages, and the like.
I know (well, ...
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What sequence of documents should I read to know “all of” TeX and then LaTeX?
I know that there are a already number of questions on this site about good instructional (La)TeX materials for users at different levels.
What I am interested in, though, is what set of documents ...
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How would (La)TeX be different if it had been created recently? [closed]
If Knuth/Lamport/anyone else had created a typesetting system with the flexibility and power of TeX, using everything we have learned about computation and programming languages in the last 35 years, ...
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Including a PDF for dvi output
I want to include a multipage-pdf in latex and get .dvi output. I know \include{pdfpages} only works with pdfLaTeX. I can't convert PDF to .eps since it is multi-page. I want to have .dvi output with ...
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What are the differences between TeX counts and LaTeX counters?
The title already states the whole question. It has been answered by Joseph Wright at http://www.texdev.net/2009/11/17/tex-counts-and-latex-counters/, but I have not seen the according answer here at ...
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LaTeX structure
I have question about LaTeX structure and how LaTeX works? Is it just a set of macros for TeX? What happens, when I call latex somefile.tex? Does latex just includes somefile into a file, which ...
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Cunning (La)TeX tricks
Writing (La)TeX code sometimes requires a degree of guile. Here (in no particular order) are two of my favourite examples.
Macros ending with spaces
Pete asked how to see the implementation of ...
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Why are there no alternatives to TeX, or, why is TeX still used? [closed]
I'm fairly new to TeX and LaTeX, having been drawn in by the Big Idea — creating a document programmatically. However, my experience of TeX (and its libraries — LaTeX, ConTeXt, …) has been almost ...
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LaTeX Markup Options?
I was wondering what prevented the implementation of a MarkDown system in (La)TeX? I know that pandoc does a conversion of MarkDown with extra features to LaTeX. I also know that many are happy with ...
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What is the difference between TeX and LaTeX?
I know LaTeX and I've heard that LaTeX is a set of macros in TeX.
But what does it exactly mean?
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When does it make sense to use TeX only and skip LaTeX?
In what applications doesn't LaTeX give you much?
