LaTeX is a typesetting system that was created by Donald Knuth of Stanford University in 1978. It is designed to produce documents that are clear, easy to read, and professional in appearance, such as ...

Mathematicians and physicists commonly use LaTeX although it is gaining more traction in the biological sciences too. LaTeX documents are created by writing lines of code into a .tex file. This code ...

LaTeX or Word? For physicists and mathematicians, the choice is obvious. But for scientists in other fields the merits of LaTeX have largely gone unnoticed. The open-source software system — used to ...

LyX is a good program for typesetting large documents, particularly scientific documents. When one thinks of document editors, it’s usually Microsoft Word and Google Docs that come to mind. But in the ...

When mathematicians and scientists start writing something it’s very likely to go beyond words — with much of the key content presented in the form of symbols and equations. Pedestrian word processors ...

Without a major Linux kernel release, user-friendliness and word processing made some of the best news in the open source world last year. Quite likely the most powerful document creation and ...

Writers are everywhere. They can be in school, in business or trying to make a living printing text on the page. The Internet abounds with various Microsoft Windows tools to aid in writing books, ...