Using LaTeX is fundamentally different from using these other programs-instead of seeing your document as it comes together, you describe how you want it to look using commands in a text file, then run that file through the LaTeX program to build the result. Most readers will be familiar with WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) typesetting systems such as LibreOffice Writer, Microsoft Word, or Google Docs. One of the most popular macro packages is called LaTeX. These systems save time by automating certain repetitive tasks however, this convenience comes at the cost of complete design flexibility. Fortunately, document preparation systems based on TeX, consisting of collections of pre-built commands and macros, do exist. The tools TeX offers "out of the box" are relatively primitive, and learning how to perform common tasks can require a significant time investment. English speakers often pronounce it /'tɛk/, like the first syllable of technical. Knuth, The TeXbook) The letters of the name are meant to represent the capital Greek letters tau, epsilon, and chi, as TeX is an abbreviation of τέχνη (ΤΕΧΝΗ – technē), Greek for both "art" and "craft", which is also the root word of technical.
The name TeX is intended by its developer to be /'tɛx/, /x/ being the velar fricative, the final consonant of loch and Bach. The version numbers of TeX are converging toward the mathematical constant π, with the current version number being 3.1415926. TeX is renowned for being extremely stable, for running on many different kinds of computers, and for being virtually bug free. The fine control TeX offers over document structure and formatting makes it a powerful and formidable tool. While TeX is a programming language in the sense that it is Turing complete, its main job is to serve as a markup language for describing how your document should look. Knuth started writing the TeX typesetting engine in 1977 to explore the potential of the digital printing equipment that was beginning to infiltrate the publishing industry at that time, in the hope that he could reverse the trend of deteriorating typographical quality that he saw affecting his own books and articles. TeX is a language created by Donald Knuth to typeset documents attractively and consistently.
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