This page was originally compiled for the TeX Users Group by Sebastian Rahtz, with the help of many other contributors. Suggestions and corrections are always welcome, please email webmaster@tug.org.
If you have a general question, start with the TeX Frequently Asked Questions! Or, if you are new to TeX, try this basic introduction to the system.
If you have questions not answered by the above, read on for more
documentation links, or the basic general help forum for TeX is the newsgroup comp.text.tex.
For general help with LaTeX:
For plain TeX:
Online help for other aspects of TeX software:
More references to works on typography, printing, and TeX that are available online.
Graphics:
The overall TeX system:
Books on plain TeX:
Books on LaTeX:
Also see the AMS list of TeX resources and TeX-related publications. You may also want to check out Bibliography on TeX & Co from LORIA, Nancy, France.
TeX Live is a distribution
from most TeX user groups which contains setups for many Unix systems,
Macintosh, and 32-bit Windows, starting from teTeX and web2c-win32 (see
below).
Web2c, a widely-used system for
compiling all the important TeX software in C.
teTeX, Thomas Esser's packaging of Web2c
for many Unix systems.
TeXLive-teTeX for
MacOS X, a highly-regarded setup developed by Gerben Wierda.
web2c-win32 (fpTeX) a complete port of web2c
for Win32 by Fabrice Popineau, including a port of Xdvi for windows (windvi);
also on CTAN in systems/win32/we2bc
emTeX, the
classic DOS and OS/2 TeX setup by Eberhard Mattes.
Knoppix, a live
Linux system on a bootable CD that includes TeX.
MikTeX, a highly-regarded setup for Windows
95/NT
NTeX, (Unix and
Linux TeX based on Web2c 7.2)
PasTeX, for Amiga.
The AMS TeX pages have a good list of public domain TeX implementations and sources.
The AMS TeX pages have a good list of Commercial TeX implementations.
Applied Symbols: OpenType
Computer Modern and Unimath, an OpenType math font.
Blue Sky Research sells Textures for
Macintosh.
Ideal
Fonts: sells virtual fonts for Textures
Mackichan Software, Inc. sells Scientific
Word for Windows and Mac, a WYSIWYG program using TeX in the background.
Personal TeX Inc: sells packages for Windows
users
True TeX is a TrueType based TeX for
Windows.
VTeX: includes TeX IDE,
outline fonts, visual tools, HTML and PDF backends.
Y&Y Inc: TeX systems for Windows; also the
main providers of the Lucida families of PostScript fonts.
3B2, made by Advent Publishing Systems, Ltd.,
high-end professional publishing with built-in WYSIWYG TeX support and full SGML
conformance. There are offices in the UK, Ireland, USA.
e-TeX, extended TeX (available on
CTAN in systems/e-tex).
LaTeX 3 ,the successor to
LaTeX (one day).
Omega,
Unicode-based TeX (available on CTAN as part of systems/web2c/)
pdfTeX, a TeX
variant by Han The Thanh which can produce Acrobat PDF instead of dvi (available
on CTAN as part of systems/web2c/); the
manual, useful examples, and a FAQ can be found at /applications/pdftex/
Typesetting
Chinese or Japanese.
AASTeX
(Version5.0 as of November 1999)
AMS-TeX
and AMS-LaTeX , the American Mathematical Society's TeX packages
CSTeX , LaTeX and plain TeX
support for Czech and Slovak users, including special fonts
EDMAC , Dominik Wujastyk and
John Lavagnino's package for typestting critical editions
Eplain , Karl Berry's
extended plain format
Eukleides , geometry diagrams with
output in pstricks, including graphical frontend
Feynmf , Thorsten Ohl's
package for doing Feynman diagrams using LaTeX and Metafont/Metapost
Harvard package , for
bibliographies in LaTeX, by Peter Williams
LaTeXPiX, Windows program
that generates LaTeX pictures.
PSTricks Notes by Denis
Girou (including bug list)
The
REVTeX package
Seminar (LaTeX slides),
notes by Denis Girou (including bug list and FAQ)
TeXnicCenter, an
integrated environment LaTeX composition under Windows.
Xy-pic, Kristoffer
Rose and Ross Moore's graphics package, specialising in commutative
diagrams.
AUC-TeX ,a sophisticated Emacs mode
for TeX
dvips , Tom
Rokicki's widely-used dvi to PostScript driver
Ekushey typing system
-- Bengali for Microsoft Word. This is a GNU licenced add-in 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.
EMTEXGI
, a Windows interface for emTeX
Excalibur
, the Mac TeX-aware spell checker
LaTeXEdit(English) A
LaTeX Editor, spellchecker and viewer for Windows.
iTeXMac
teTeX frontend for MacOS X, written by J. Laurens. This project migrated to
SourceForge.net in July of 2002.
Kile, a LaTeX
front end for KDE under Linux.
LaTable, an interactive table designer
for LaTeX.
LyX, a Unix X Windows front end
for TeX.
PyTeX, Python programming plus
TeX typesetting.
Metapost ,John
Hobby's version of Metafont that makes EPS files
Metagraf, a drawing
package that creates Metapost files
stepTeX , porting
the famous NeXTStep TeX previewer
TechWriter Pro Used in connection with EasiWriter,
TechWriter provides an equation editor which exports to HTML, as a TeX file, and
has Java support.
TeXaide , a special free
version of Mathtype's Equation Editor, generating TeX markup
TeXShop ,
MacOS X frontend for TeX, developed by Richard Koch.
WinEdt , a very powerful TeX editor and
shell for Windows 9X/NT (shareware)
pfe
(Programmer's File Editor) Another editor for a Windows system
preview-latex, WYSIWYGish
in-line previews right in your Emacs source buffer
texd, TeX as a daemon with a
callable interface, written in Python.
xdvi , Paul Vojta's
widely-used X Windows TeX previewer; the `kpathsea' variant is currently
maintained as xdvik
gsftopk is Paul Vojta's
program to make PK bitmaps from Type1 fonts, useful for many TeX
previewers
TeXmacsA WYSIWYG editor for
typing technical and mathematical text.
TeXpict is a useful drawing
package which exports to LaTeX
Xindy ,a new index
processor designed to replace makeindex
xtem_TeXmenu ,
X11 GUI for TeX and LaTeX
dvii, a
useful program by Adam H. Lewenberg for looking at dvi files and summarizing the
contents (fonts, specials, etc)
dvipdfm, Mark Wicks' dvi to PDF
converter
word2tex, shareware for
converting Word documents to LaTeX (and tex2word for the other direction).
DiffDoc,
shareware for comparing html, pdf, and other documents.
BibTeX:
BibDB, a BibTeX
Database Manager (DOS and Windows) by Eyal Doron.
gbib, a BibTeX manager for Linux, including
integration with LyX.
BibTeXMng, a BibTeX manager for
Windows.
Pybliographer, a
nice 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.
HotReference.com, a community site for
sharing bibliography citations and article reviews, with BibTeX support.
HyperTeX , conventions for TeX
hypertext
The Hyperlatex
package
LaTeX2HTML translator
to create Web pages from LaTeX documents. See also the manual.
TeX4ht, TeX and LaTeX
for Hypertext, by Eitan Gurari. It supports LaTeX to XML, including MathML See
also an update page
talking about MathML. There is a useful guide on how to set it all up with
MikTeX by Philip Viton here
tex2page,
Scheme-based TeX-to-HTML conversion for TeX and LaTeX.
ltoh , Russel Quong's
customizable LaTeX to HTML converter
tth TeX to HTML converter.
IDVI a Java dvi viewer
tbookdtd, XML DTD for LaTeX
documents, and HTML generation
HTeX A simplified LaTeX
interface for Web documents
HeVeA. A
LaTeX to HTML translater, written in objective Caml.
tex2html , commercial TeX to HTML conversion
system, which renders maths using the Symbol font (and other tricks)
Texpider , MicroPress'
version of TeX that writes HTML directly
Techexplorer, a
Web browser plugin from IBM which renders TeX markup
MathType and the Equation Editor in MS Word.
MathType is a WYSIWYG equation editor that outputs TeX.
txt2TeX,
Kalvis M. Jansons' Perl script (which is part of the KalTeX package) converts
plain text into something with a little LaTeX formatting.
ASTER
demo (spoken mathematics)
Supporting (La)TeX equations within HTML:
webmath, equation typesetting for web
pages via an applet.
mimetex.cgi, equation typesetting
for web pages via a cgi script.
Gladtex, equations to
images via batch perl/Ghostscript/LaTeX/dvips.
EquationService,
equations to pdf (by Doug Rowland).
If you are interested in math and XML, look at MathML , the proposal for math on the Web, and a standard DTD. There is a comprehensive general guide to the Mathematical Markup Language, maintained by Pankaj Kamthan.
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Or take a break from all this TeX stuff and admire Sebastian's daughter Matilde circa 2000, visiting the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, or circa 2002, painted as a Kathakali dancer in India.