- is a document preparation system.
- It excels at letting you create complex technical and scientific articles
- with mathematics, cross-references, bibliographies, indices, etc.
- It is very good at documents of any length in which the usual processing
- abilities are required: automatic sectioning and pagination, spell checking,
- and so forth.
- It can also be used to write a letter to your mom, though granted, there
- are probably simpler programs available for that.
- It is definitely not the best tool for creating banners, flyers, or advertiseme
-nts (we'll explain why later), though with some effort all these can be
- done, too.
+ is a document preparation system. It excels at letting you create complex technical and scientific articles with mathematics, cross-references, bibliographies, indices, etc. It is very good at documents of any length in which the usual processing abilities are required: automatic sectioning and pagination, spell checking, and so forth. It can also be used to write a letter to your mom, though granted, there are probably simpler programs available for that. It is definitely not the best tool for creating banners, flyers, or advertisements (we'll explain why later), though with some effort all these can be done, too.