[comp.text.tex] LaTex vs. TeX

news@easylogic.cgl.se (Lars H Carlsson) (04/09/91)

I'm a novis user of TeX. I was wondering about the history of TeX and
LaTeX. Difference and such. Could some one enlighten me?

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marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron) (04/10/91)

TeX was written by Donald E. Knuth, and is a typesetting system.  LaTeX is a
set of macros for TeX written by Leslie Lamport of DEC - this turns TeX into
more of a markup language, rather than a typesetter.  The distinction I am
making between typesetting and markup is just my opinion :-) but I find it
useful to explain it this way to other people who have asked me about TeX.

Hope that helps in some way.  

[M][a][r][c]


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