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Differences between \LaTeX~and other typesetting programs
Most word processors these days have the feature that what you see as you
type is almost exactly the same as what you get when you print.
A standard acronym for this is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get).
Microsoft Word, Microsoft FrontPage, and other editors work this way.
In the case of Word, besides the text that you type, additional codes are
inserted into the document to indicate where the font size should change,
whether to use bold, italic, or regular type, etc.
You can only edit your document using Word, since these additional
characters are encoded with non-text characters and their format is not
known to the average user.
With FrontPage and other HTML editors, you can either edit the document as
you would see it on a web browser (with bold and various size fonts) or you
can edit the HTML source, which has additional ``tags'' which indicate
changes in the appearance of the text.
With \LaTeX, the document is simply a text file that you can edit with any
of several text editors.
Then you run the \LaTeX~program to turn the source of the document into a
.dvi file (DeVice Independent), which can be viewed with a previewer.
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