Introduction

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L^ATEX is a layout or typesetting system, which helps to produce documents with the high typographic quality of a good book. It's special strength is the setting of complicated mathematical formulas and the handling of large structured documents.

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Basic idea: The author cares about the content and logical structure of the document. The layout is done by the L^ATEX system in accordance with predefined style definitions.

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L^ATEX is freely available in the internet for all relevant operating systems.