I was introduced to LATEX during a workshop held in our college.
LATEX is the most useful tool in preparing technical or non-technical documents. LATEX is a scripting language.
Technical documents mostly contain equations and symbols such as summation, integration, etc. which cannot be created in Word. In such cases LATEX is useful.
If any changes are made in a document created in Word, the alignment and the number of pages also change. Hence the user has to not only concentrate on the content but also on the format. This is very time consuming.
As LATEX is based on scripts which have a predefined format, the user has to only set the format once and can concentrate on the contents of the documentation. Any changes made to the document in future will automatically follow the pre-set format. This saves the users time.
While LATEX is very useful, the only challenge lies in learning the scripts. But once learned it can be helpful in creating documents with ease.
LATEX is mainly used on Linux Operating System, but it is also available for Windows and MAC.
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