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Word processing can be done several ways, and there are two classical approaches: either via word processors (like KWord or Staroffice), or via typesetting systems (like troff or TeX).The latter is - due to its excellent output quality - well suited for scientific documents, and therefore TeX/LaTeX is widely used at universities and by authors of scientific publications. The price you have to pay for high quality with TeX is, that you have no WYSIWYG text formatting. Instead you write your document using a macro language, and you have to compile it into somewhat readable afterwards.
The task of KTeXShell is to make this cycle - write TeX "code", compile it, view it - more easy to handle. This is done by integrating all programs for producing a TeX-document into a single graphical user interface, where you only have to press a button to get the things done.
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