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- FAQ and documentation:
- Free TeX implementations
- TeX engines and extensions
- Packages and programs
- TeX web projects
- BibTeX and bibliographies
- Commercial and shareware TeX vendors and projects
- Publisher-provided styles
- Publicity
- Miscellaneous
Where to find help and documentation
Introductions to the TeX world:
General TeX help:
If you have questions not answered by the above, here are some general help resources for TeX (no guarantees, this is all done by volunteers):
Basic LaTeX documentation:
CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network):
CTAN is a fundamental central point in the TeX world. Some of its main pages:
Fonts
- Discussion of available fonts, both free and proprietary.
- LaTeX Font Catalogue, by Palle Jørgensen of DK-TUG, has short samples of most fonts available in typical LaTeX installations.
- Essential NFSS users guide by Sebastian Rahtz; see also Font selection in LaTeX by Walter Schmidt, and fontspec, a package by Will Robertson for using OpenType and other fonts in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX using NFSS.
- Luc Devroye's type design page (archived), with a staggering amount of information on fonts of all kinds, samples, type designers, typography, and more.
- The STIX web site, a project for getting mathematical characters into Unicode, and creating fonts with them. This article by Barbara Beeton explains some of the background and issues. STIX and XITS (enhanced derivative) are on CTAN.
- Utilities for creating font support include otftotfm and otfinfo in Eddie Kohler's lcdf-typetools, autoinst in Marc Penninga's fontools wrapping lcdf-typetools, and Bob Tennent's article on using them in practice.
- Fontname, a naming scheme for TeX fonts.
- Michael Sharpe's 2014 TUGboat article on additions to the TeX font repertoire, including variants of Bembo, Garamond, Baskerville, and more.
- Prehistory of digital fonts, an extensively illustrated history by Jacques André.
General typography and typesetting:
Graphics:
Indexing:
Plain TeX:
- TeX by Topic, A TeXnician's Reference, by Victor Eijkhout (Addison-Wesley, 1992; 307pp). Available under the GFDL.
- TeX for the Impatient, by Paul Abrahams, Kathryn Hargreaves, and Karl Berry (Addison-Wesley, 1990; 357pp). Available under the GFDL.
- A gentle introduction to TeX, by Michael Doob (Greek translation).
- Plain TeX documentation topic on CTAN.
- Getting Started with Plain TeX and Summary of Commonly-Used Features of Plain TeX, by D.R. Wilkins.
- Reference cards for AMSTeX and plain TeX, by Joseph Silverman.
- A Beginner's Book of TeX, by Silvio Levy and Raymond Seroul (Springer Verlag, ISBN 0-387-97562-4).
- TeX for the Beginner, by Wynter Snow (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-54799-6).
- To proto vima sto TeX, Greek translation and enhancement of TeX starting from square one, by Dimitrios Filippou (Paratiritis Editions, ISBN 960-374-081-0, 2001).
- Most of all, The TeXbook by Donald Knuth, the original manual for TeX, with both tutorial and (comprehensive) reference information.
Overall TeX system:
- TDS, the TeX Directory Structure standard, the common layout for TeX systems.
- A freely available book on the TeX system: Making TeX Work, by Norman Walsh (O'Reilly, 1994; 15 chapters, 6 appendices).
LaTeX tutorials and courses:
- Learning resources for a LaTeX beginner, a tex.stackexchange.com discussion page.
- Learning LaTeX online, short lessons with examples that can be run entirely online. Translated into several languages.
- A simple guide to LaTeX - Step by step, short lessons with full code examples.
- LaTeX beginners' course from UK-TUG.
- LaTeX tutorials and information from Nicola Talbot.
- Getting Started with LaTeX, a primer for text, math, and basic formatting.
- Spoken (video) tutorials on LaTeX, and on XFig with math, from spoken-tutorial.org.
- LaTeX tutorials from Andy Roberts.
- Video tutorial series on LaTeX from sharelatex.com.
- RUG LateX Course, by Siep Kroonenberg, including book and practice files.
- LaTeX tutorials from TUGIndia, the Indian TeX Users Group.
- Let's Learn LaTeX by S. Parthasarathy.
Presentations about TeX:
LaTeX templates:
All of these collections would welcome additions and corrections.
LaTeX reference information:
LaTeX for particular fields:
Writing new LaTeX packages, classes, and styles:
Printed LaTeX books:
- The LaTeX Companion, by Frank Mittelbach, with Ulrike Fischer (Addison-Wesley, third edition, 2023). A two-volume opus covering the LaTeX world. Reviews.
- The LaTeX Cookbook, by Stefan Kottwitz (Packt Publishing, second edition, 2024). Buy on Amazon.
- Learning LaTeX, by David Griffiths and Desmond Higham (SIAM, second edition, 2016). A short example-based book covering core LaTeX and selected packages.
- A Guide to LaTeX2e, by Helmut Kopka and Patrick Daly (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-321-17385-6, fourth edition, 2003).
- Math into LaTeX, by George Grätzer, 6th edition.
- Typesetting Mathematics with LaTeX, by Herbert Voß (UIT Cambridge, ISBN 978-1-906860-17-2, 2010, 304pp). A practical book on typesetting mathematics with LaTeX, covering many packages.
- Typesetting tables with LaTeX, by Herbert Voß (UIT Cambridge, ISBN 978-1-906860-25-7, 2011, 240pp). A practical book on typesetting tables with LaTeX, covering many packages.
(La)TeX advocacy:
The TeX Family in 2009 article is available online, originally published in AMS Notices magazine.
See also the list of TeX journals and publications, and the AMS lists of TeX resources and TeX-related publications.
Free TeX implementations
Some notable TeX implementations that are entirely, or least primarily, free software:
- TeX Live is a distribution provided by most TeX user groups which supports many Unix systems, MacOSX, and Windows.
- MacTeX, TeX Live with additions and easy installation for MacOSX.
- MiKTeX, an independent distribution for Windows with a flexible package manager.
- proTeXt, MiKTeX with additions and a thorough installation guide for Windows.
- KerTeX, from Thierry Laronde, a TeX kernel system.
- Knoppix, a live GNU/Linux system on a bootable CD that includes TeX.
- TeX-FPC, from Wolfgang Helbig, change files for TeX to work with Free Pascal compiler, along with installation scripts.
- Wallstone Creativity Desktop, a large free software collection for dealing with documents, photos, video, project planning, and more; includes (La)TeX.
If you want to inspect Knuth's original sources for educational or other such purposes, without any of the scaffolding and enhancements that have come to surround them in current systems, you can get them from Stanford; all the material is also mirrored on CTAN.
TeX engines and extensions
- e-TeX(extended TeX). Required by current LaTeX, incorporated in all common executables except tex itself (run etex for plain e-TeX). e-TeX manual.
- pdfTeX, a TeX extension which can directly produce PDF output as well as DVI. Incorporates e-TeX.
- XeTeX and LuaTeX and (FAQ), TeX implementations natively supporting Unicode and system fonts. LuaTeX also offers embedded Lua scripting.
Packages and programs
LaTeX, biggest and most widely used TeX macro package.
ConTeXt, Hans Hagen's powerful, extensive TeX macro package; a serious contender for those wanting a production-quality publishing system. Integrated support for XML, MetaPost, and much more. The ConTeXt Garden Wiki is a good place to start. Also, Aditya Mahajan writes regular introductory ConTeXt articles for TUGboat: fonts, tables, tables II, indentations, Unicode/OpenType math, conditional processing (modes). paper setup, images.
Editors
Free editors and front-ends (see also vendors below):
- Atom, a cross-platform text editor and its LaTeXTools plugin.
- GNU Emacs and especially its AUC-TeX package.
- IPE, a drawing editor for creating figures in PDF format.
- Kile for KDE/Linux.
- LaTeX Editor (LEd) for Windows.
- LyX for Windows and X, a well-developed front end for TeX.
- SciTe for Windows and X, a free source code editor.
- Sublime Text, a sophisticated general text editor, free for evaluation, and its LaTeXTools plugin.
- Texmaker, cross-platform.
- TeXStudio, cross-platform.
- TeXnicCenter for Windows, an integrated environment for LaTeX composition.
- TeXShop, a widely used free software TeX front end for MacOSX.
- TeXworks, a cross-platform front-end with an ease-of-use philosophy similar to TeXShop, an integrated PDF viewer, source/output synchronization, and more.
- Vim with Vim-LaTeX, a comprehensive TeX suite.
- Visual Studio Code, a cross-platform editor from Microsoft; the VS Marketplace offers many TeX extensions, such as LaTeX Workshop by James Yu.
- Winshell for Windows; this is a zero-cost but proprietary editor.
- MAPS 46 (2015) contains reviews of TeXShop, Textmate, TeXworks, TeXstudio, and SciTE.
Online references for other TeX-related software:
Packages and programs for making slide presentations:
Packages and programs dealing with graphics.
- graphics and graphicx, the core LaTeX packages.
- bmpsize, Heiko Oberdiek's package for finding bitmap bounding boxes; supports most bitmap formats.
PSTricks graphics:
- PSTricks home page, a widely-used graphics package, maintained by Herbert Voß.
PGF/TikZ graphics:
Xy-pic graphics:
Other programs for creating graphics:
- asymptote, a MetaPost replacement with a C++-like syntax and floating-point numerics, by Andy Hammerlindl, John Bowman, and Tom Prince.
- ePiX, Andy Hwang's C++-based graphics language.
- Eukleides, geometry diagrams with output in pstricks, including graphical frontend
- Inkscape, a multi-platform graphics editor based on SVG.
- IPE, a multi-platform graphics editor.
- LaTeXPiX, Windows program that generates LaTeX pictures.
- MetaPost, the derivation of Metafont for technical drawings and PostScript output.
- TeXCAD, a Windows program for drawing or retouching LaTeX {picture}s; distributed under the GPL.
- TpX, a TeX drawing tool for Windows.
- Xfig, a comprehensive drawing tool for Unix with many options for (La)TeX and Metafont/MetaPost.
Formats and large macro packages:
- AMS-TeX and AMS-LaTeX , the American Mathematical Society's TeX packages
- EDMAC, Dominik Wujastyk and John Lavagnino's package for typestting critical editions in plain TeX
- Eplain, extended plain format
- LaTeX 3, new work from the LaTeX developers (news).
- The REVTeX package
- Shyster, James Popple's case-based legal expert system which produces LaTeX output.
DVI drivers:
- dvips, Tom Rokicki's widely-used dvi to PostScript driver
- xdvi, Paul Vojta's widely-used DVI previewer for the X window system.
- xdvik, the Kpathsea variant of xdvi.
- dvipdfmx, extended version of Mark Wicks' original DVI to PDF converter, by Shunsaku Hirata and Jin-Hwan Cho.
- dvisvgm, for conversion to the W3C SVG (scalable vector graphics) format.
- dvii, for looking at DVI files and summarizing the contents (fonts, specials, etc.), by Adam H. Lewenberg.
PDF viewers (concentrating on free software):
- For Unix:
- xpdf, a standalone PDF viewer and companion utilities.
- Impressive, intended for doing slide presentations with several custom features.
- GNU gv, a simple front-end to Ghostscript.
- Evince, a document viewer for PDF (based on poppler), PostScript, DVI, and more.
- GGV (Gnome Ghostview), a Ghostscript front-end for the Gnome window manager. It has been decommissioned and is no longer developed.
- Okular, universal document viewer based developed by KDE. Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc.
- Ghostscript itself. Besides viewing, Ghostscript can distill PostScript to PDF (and to various image formats, bounding boxes, and many other things).
- For Windows: Sumatra PDF, free software based on xpdf.
- There is also the proprietary (though zero-cost) Adobe (Acrobat) Reader.
Excalibur, the LaTeX-aware spell checker for Mac.
OpenOffice math plugin that allows writing LaTeX formulas in OpenOffice documents.
PerlTeX, Perl programming plus TeX typesetting.
PerlTeX: Defining LaTeX macros using Perl, an article by Scott Pakin, author of PerlTeX.
Programming with PerlTeX, an article by Andrew Mertz and William Slough using graduated examples.
ProofCheck, a system for writing mathematical proofs in a directly (La)TeXable format.
PyTeX, Python programming plus TeX typesetting.
stepTeX, porting the famous NeXTStep TeX previewer
preview-latex, WYSIWYGish in-line previews right in your Emacs source buffer
texd, TeX as a daemon with a callable interface, written in Python.
TeXmacs, a WYSIWYG editor for typing technical and mathematical text.
TeXamator, free software in Python/Qt4 to create and manage exercise sheets, packaged for several distros and translated to several languages.
TeXoMaker, free software for teachers to create and manage exercise sheets in LaTeX.
MathType and the Equation Editor in MS Word. MathType is a WYSIWYG equation editor that outputs TeX.
Label & card printing resources with TeX and LaTeX, a discussion of packages to print labels, envelopes, etc.
Multi-lingual typesetting in scripts and languages around the world:
- Ekushey typing system—Bengali for Microsoft Word, a GPL-licensed add-on for Word 97/2000/XP that enables Bengali typing. It has an export to TeX option, meaning that it can be used either as a conversion tool or as a WYSIWYG Bengali TeX editor.
- CSTeX, LaTeX and plain TeX support for Czech and Slovak users, including special fonts.
- Japanese LaTeX (Platex) and related tools for pdf authoring by Young Joon Moon, as part of a self-initiated project to guide Japanese learners and Japanese to master kanji (Japanese/Chinese characters) with minimal effort.
- Hóng-Zì, a project to create Chinese Metafonts. Contributors encouraged.
- Using GNU/Linux and LaTeX to create Japanese language documents.
- Japanese directory on CTAN.
TeX web projects
- Online LaTeX previewer, by Troy Henderson.
- TeX4ht, (La)TeX and more with hypertext, originally written by Eitan Gurari. It supports LaTeX to HTML and XML, including MathML, as well as OpenOffice and other formats.
- LaTeXML, converter from LaTeX to XML, HTML, and EPUB (see also wikipedia page).
- LaTeX2HTML translator to create Web pages from LaTeX documents. See also the introductory article.
- tex2page, Scheme-based TeX-to-HTML conversion for TeX and LaTeX.
- HeVeA. A LaTeX to HTML translater, written in objective Caml.
- tth, a TeX to HTML converter.
- MediaWiki to LaTeX, compiling MediaWiki pages to LaTeX and PDF. Both an online converter and full downloadable source are available.
- Wikipublisher supports customized typesetting of web pages for print, using LaTeX.
More web-related projects:
- neutriNote, a free Android app: “In a nutshell, an all-in-one preservation of written thoughts, be those text, math (LaTeX), rich markdown, drawings, etc., in fully searchable plain text.”
- Authorea is an online collaboration tool supporting LaTeX, Markdown, and most web formats, including revision control.
- Mathapedia, authoring of interactive math textbooks and graphics in real-time. Video tutorial.
- HyperTeX, original conventions for TeX hypertext.
Supporting (La)TeX equations within HTML, etc.:
MathJax, JavaScript engine with output using CSS and web fonts or SVG.
mimetex.cgi, equation typesetting for web pages via a cgi script.
GtkMathView for TeX-quality formatting of MathML, by Luca Padovani.
Formula Freehand Entry System (FFES), a pen-based equation editor.
InftyReader, OCR for equations with LaTeX output.
mathurl, render LaTeX to an image and generate a short url for use in email, IM, etc.
Yet more:
Markup Shredder, document conversion from HTML to PDF using TeX.
ASTER demo (spoken mathematics)
EquPlus: Science and Math Equations, displaying code for science and math equations in TeX, MathML, and MathType, including constants, symbols, and SI units.
Verbosus is an online LaTeX editor (free to use), including PDF generation.
tbookdtd, XML DTD for LaTeX documents, and HTML generation
Related software:
If you are interested in math and XML, look info MathML, the proposal for math on the Web, and a standard DTD.
BibTeX and bibliographies
- Basics: BibTeX home page and CTAN package page.
- BibTeX 101, an introduction to BibTeX by Oren Patashnik (TUGboat 19:2).
- Massive bibliography collection, from Nelson Beebe, including bibnet and the TUG bibliography archive, both mirrored on tug.org.
- Tame the BeaST: The B to X of BibTeX, a comprehensive BibTeX manual by Nicolas Markey.
- Bibfilex, a cross-platform manager for BibLaTeX specifically.
- BibLaTeX: bibliographies completely in LaTeX, using BibTeX or Biber for sorting.
- ebib, BibTeX database manager for Emacs.
- JabRef, Java-based GUI for managing BibTeX databases.
- Pybliographer, a BibTeX tool which can be used for searching, editing, reformatting, etc. It provides Python classes, has a graphical GNOME interface, and references can be inserted directly into LyX (version 1.0.x running on the GNOME desktop.
- RefTeX, for handling references with GNU Emacs.
Commercial and shareware TeX vendors and projects
The AMS TeX pages have a list of Commercial TeX implementations. This list includes many additional shareware and otherwise nonfree packages and projects.
Applied Symbols, OpenType Computer Modern and Unimath, an OpenType math font.
DiffDoc, shareware for comparing html, pdf, and other documents.
GrindEQ Math Utilities, for importing/exporting (AMS)(La)TeX documents to/from Microsoft Word.
LaTeXBase, online collaborative writing and publishing.
Overleaf for collaborative writing and publishing.
Personal TeX Inc. sells and supports a complete TeX product for Windows.
OzTeX for the Macintosh, by Andrew Trevorrow, released as freeware.
VTeX includes a TeX IDE, visual tools, HTML, PDF, PS and SVG backends, and plenty more.
WinEdt, a very powerful TeX editor and shell for Windows.
word2tex, shareware from Chikrii Softlab for converting Word documents to LaTeX and from LaTeX to Word.
Y&Y was a TeX system for Windows; they're out of business now, but their web pages are still available here.
Publisher-provided TeX and LaTeX styles
See also the excellent pages on Journals Accepting Manuscripts written using LaTeX by Gabriel Valiente.
A number of publishers provide ready-made style packages.
Scholarly and publishing organizations:
Publicity
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