Editing LaTeX (section)

==History==
LaTeX was created in the early 1980s by [[Leslie Lamport]] when he was working at [[Stanford Research Institute]] (SRI). He needed to write TeX macros for his own use and thought that with a little extra effort, he could make a general package usable by others. Peter Gordon, an editor at [[Addison-Wesley]], convinced him to write a LaTeX user's manual for publication (Lamport was initially skeptical that anyone would pay money for it);<ref name="Lamport2018">{{Cite web
 |last=Lamport
 |first=Leslie
 |title=My Writings
 |pages=48–49
 |date=2024-04-29
 |url=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/pubs.pdf
 |url-status=live
 |access-date=2024-06-09
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240609192724/https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/pubs.pdf
 |archive-date=2024-06-09
}}</ref> it came out in 1986<ref name="Lamport1986"/> and sold hundreds of thousands of copies.<ref name="Lamport2018"/> Meanwhile, Lamport released versions of his LaTeX macros in 1984 and 1985. On 21 August 1989, at a TeX Users Group (TUG) meeting at Stanford, Lamport agreed to turn over maintenance and development of LaTeX to [[Frank Mittelbach]]. Mittelbach, along with Chris Rowley and Rainer Schöpf, formed the LaTeX3 team; in 1994, they released LaTeX2e, the current standard version. LaTeX3 has since been discontinued as a separate format and has become a programming layer within LaTeX2e since 2018.<ref name="Latex3planning"/>