LaTeX (Master document)

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LaTeX is a document preparation system for typesetting. It is widely used in academia for technical or scientific documents but can be used for other forms of publishing. LaTeX projects can contain multiple subdocuments which are linked to a Master Document.

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Extensions	`.tex`
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PandocOpen sourcereads and writes · GPL-2.0-or-later
PandocOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
AUCTeXreads and writes
GNU Source-highlightreads and writes
GNU UnRTFwrites
Mathematical Expression Recognitionwrites
Scientific WorkPlace 2.5reads and writes
ShareLaTeXwrites
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To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
ePub Format	Pandoc	Partial	`pandoc -f latex -t epub in.tex -o out.epub` Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.
Hypertext Markup Language	Pandoc	Partial	`pandoc -f latex -t html in.tex -o out.html` Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.
Markdown	Pandoc	Partial	`pandoc -f latex -t markdown in.tex -o out.md` Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.
Office Open XML Wordprocessing Document, ECMA-376 1st Edition	Pandoc	Partial	`pandoc -f latex -t docx in.tex -o out.docx` Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.
OpenDocument	Pandoc	Partial	`pandoc -f latex -t odt in.tex -o out.odt` Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.
Plain Text File	Pandoc	Partial	`pandoc -f latex -t plain in.tex -o out.txt` Text only: all formatting is dropped.

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From PRONOM. Updated 2010-11-01.

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