LaTeX is more of a typesetting application, where Scrivener provides much more tooling around story telling. Scrivener provides you with tools like corkboard an

LaTeX is more of a typesetting application, where Scrivener provides much more tooling around story telling. Scrivener provides you with tools like corkboard and outliner, which lets you have a place to store ideas and todo lists for what you are working on. You can rearange a chapter in your book by clicking and dragging it to the new location. The formatting is similar to Word or OpenOffice, in that, what you see is what you get. LaTeX on the other hand (or more specifically, TeX) is a set of macros that will generate formatting for you. Usually, the output is a DVI file, but can also be a PostScript or PDF file. LaTeX is all plain text. It only handles document processing, turning the LaTeX document into an outputted formatted document. Edit: You can still include images etc. Pandoc allows you to convert between LaTeX and many other formats. What you can do with LaTeX is almost limited only by your imagination: https://www.latex-project.org/publications/2020-egreg-TUB-tb127gregorio-math.pdf https://www.latex-project.org/publications/2020-egreg-TUB-tb...