LaTeX is a system for preparing documents to be printed or displayed. It is built on top of the Donald Knuth's TeX typesetting system. You can learn more about LaTeX on TeX Users Group FAQ, WikiPedia, CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network). The rest of this article focus on getting Inkscape to work with LaTex. How to embed a LaTeX equation inside Inkscape Recent versions of Inkscape (since 0.48?