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All formatting languages provide you with the means to display and/or print a text file that you have written under the aegis of a word processor such as WordPerfect or a text editor such as Emacs. All formatting languages more or less provide you with a repertoire of commands that clothe the text in various fonts, differentiate one piece of text from an adjoining piece of text, and locate a unit of text where you want to see it on the page.
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Lipkin, B.S. (1999). What a Latex Command Does. In: Latex for Linux. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1462-5_1
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