LaTeX is widely used in academia for the communication and publication of scientific documents in many fields, including mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, chemistry, physics, economics, quantitative psychology, philosophy, and political science. Developed by LaTeX3 project
License: Open Source
LaTeX excels in producing documents that require high-quality typesetting, especially for academic papers with complex equations, while WPS Writer offers a more user-friendly interface suitable for general document creation and collaboration. The choice between them largely depends on the user's needs for typesetting quality versus ease of use.