> documents that look the same as dead tree documents have looked for the last 100 years In many cases we are talking about documents written using brand-new n

> documents that look the same as dead tree documents have looked for the last 100 years In many cases we are talking about documents written using brand-new notation never used in print, but only on chalkboards or scribbled on scratch paper (by the author). It just happens that LaTeX is a more expressive and precise tool for expressing arbitrary semi-structured 2-dimmensional symbolic formulas than available alternatives.