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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I don't know enough about TeX, other than what I've just been reading on the Wiki page. It's, and correct me if I'm wrong, a layout language for publishing as far as I can tell.
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TeX is a typesetting language designed to allow people to format good quality books with reasonable effort. It's very popular in academia as LaTeX, as us folks studying or working in the quantitative fields (mathematics, engineering, science, and economics) tend to have trouble producing complex equations that are readable by other methods. It's kind of like the html/css deal in that content is separated from presentation. One just writes the content, gives it the correct logical meaning with the appropriate commands (for example, labeling subsections as subsections, or choosing whether the document will be an article or book), and LaTex plays the part of a book designer by figuring out the best way to present the book based on the commands specified by the user. If you are interested in learning how to use it, I recommend
The Not So Short Introduction to LaTex 2e, which is freely available
here under the terms of the GNU General Public License.