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You only have to define a pattern once, and all fur- What they say about LATEX ther occurrences then follow that style, giving it unrivalled I was getting increasingly exasperated with the limi- consistency: the key to professional-looking output. tations presented by wordprocessing programs when LATEX came into my life and allowed me to do all those things I previously could only dream of, from unusual symbols to complicated layout. I strongly recommend it to anybody interested in producing a professional- looking document! Petra Hellmuth, Language Specialist I use pdfLATEX and METAFONT not only because I need them to create my presentations, lecture notes and pa- pers but also because it’s fun! Entering a math equa- tion in Powerpoint is a pain in the neck: with pdfLATEX and METAPOST it is a lot easier because you can change the style of what is to be displayed. 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LAT X-based systems such as L X and E Y The calculations of the underlying TEX formatting engine are very precise: Scientific Word have built-in equation it works internally in microunits smaller than the wavelength of visible light editors for constructing expressions with (≈53.6Å), resulting in great accuracy in positioning. LATEX can use any mixture the mouse and menus. of Anglo-American, Didot, or Adobe points, or metric or imperial units. " ( n0 d n00d)# c g c g E(n0 jn0 ; n00; 1 ≤ i ≤ g) = (N 0 − N 0 ) 1 − 1 − 1 − (10.57) g+1 i i g cN 0 + N 00 cN 00 + N 0 After Rapoport (in Bartholomew, D.J. Stochastic Models for Social Processes, 2nd. ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1973, p. 368.) Tables captioned, labelled, crossreferenced, and Figures and illustrations included in a List of Tables and List of LATEX’s tables and figures follow the stan- Figures can contain textual or graphical il- Figures. dard publishers’ practice of ‘floating’, so lustrations. Pictures can be included with if there is no room on the current page, Complex tabular matter can span pages scaling, rotation, and clipping, using in- they automatically float to the next. Au- andcanbeprintedlandscapewhileretain- dustry standard PDF or EPS vector for- tomated crossreferencing means that ta- ing the portrait orientation of the caption matsfordiagrams, orPNGorJPGbitmaps bles and figures can be moved around and pagenumber.