1. Why use LaTeX?
High Quality Manuscripts
- Primarily concerned with production of high-quality technical manuscripts:
- goal: to produce the finest quality available;
- TeX output is beautiful:
DVI,
Postscript,
PDF.
...contrast with MS Word...
- It's the little details...
- Mathematics: dvi;
ps.
- dashes: dvi;
ps: there are at least 5 different
dashes in English.
- The TeX logo: dvi;
ps.
Mathematics
- MS Word:
- difficult and time-consuming to construction non-trivial
equations and formulae;
- poor quality output — not publication-quality.
- [La]TeX:
True Publication Quality