TeX

This page is a mess....

• CTAN at Cambridge, and the search and CTAN catalogue
• TUG.
• UK TUG and ClydeNet TUG
• TeX FAQ
• TeX and Y2K
• BibTeX:
  • BibTeX and XML: bibteXML
  • BibTeX database management: BibTool, and bp, a Perl bibliography package.
  • bibtex.el
• David Bausum's list of TeX Primitive Control Sequences
• Tim Love's Why LaTeX? list of LaTeX advocacy. (see also thread `10 best reasons to use TeX' in comp.text.tex)
• Scientific Notebook is a (windows) program to act as a web-capable TeX front end.
• Scientific Word (UK distributor) is a WYSIWYG-ish front end to LaTeX. It supported Macs up to v2.5, but now supports Windows 95/NT from version 3.0. Discussions of it:
  • Van Beek (follow the link `SW/SWP2.5' in the frame on the left - sorry I can't give a direct URL (bloody frames)).
  • It has been discussed on comp.text.tex before. Go to Dejanews's power search, and search for experiences and scientific and word in the group comp.text.tex. Here's a pre-prepared search (maybe!).

• Fonts:

  • Type1 CM and AMSfonts
  • Scalable Font Options for TeX
  • Apple's font tools
  • Luc Devroye does research on fonts, and has a collection of fonts links.
  • See also the TeX FAQ on `Postscript and TeX', specifically the question Using PostScript fonts with TeX
• (La)TeX pages at CERN and Starlink
• LaTeX catalogue at CTAN.
• The LaTeX project
• ConTeXt is a TeX macro package. That is, it's like LaTeX, only more modern. Help page. Berend's introduction to ConTeXt
• For (La)TeX translators to HTML, and other issues of displaying maths on the web, see LaTeX maths within HTML.
• For tools for converting LaTeX to word processor formats, see Converters between LaTeX and PC Textprocessors
• David Carlisle's xii.tex provides a nice example of high-level markup.
• Successors to TeX: NTS and Omega (TeX and Unicode).
• (Close) alternatives to TeX:
  • TeX++: ``A modern and free C++ implementation of TeX based on CommonTeX'', still being implemented.
  • ant: TeX rewritten in OCaml
• LaTeX3 summary.
• pdfTeX support at TUG. The pdftex mailing list. And some Notes on converting (La)TeX documents to robust PDF using Rokicki's dvips and Acrobat Distiller.
• Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview
• Graphics in LaTeX: See the TeX FAQ. The LaTeX graphics guide is the documentation for the graphics and graphicx packages. Keith Reckdahl's Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e is an excellent guide to how to include postscript. Figure'ing and Picture'ing LaTeX, Anil Goel, covers the different ways in which you might generate figures, and the old (LaTeX 2.09) ways of including them into documents.
• Introductions to LaTeX:
  • lshort: The Not so Short Introduction to LaTeX by Tobias Oetiker.
  • Victor Eijkhout's TeX by Topic (a complete book!)
  • Numerous others in the TeX FAQ's (La)TeX Tutorials entry
• MetaPost, and a large collection of metapost examples
• TeXLive is a TeX CD assembled by various TeX users' groups, based on teTeX.
• winedt is a highly-regarded LaTeX editor for windows boxes, and MiKTeX is a windows TeX distribution.
• Rewriting the Bible in 0's and 1's, on Knuth and TeX.
• PDF Classroom Demonstrations: classroom/seminar presentations with LaTeX/pdf files. This is part of a larger collection of Web+TeX materials by D. P. Story
• Presentations using LaTeX/PDF:
  • D P Storey's PDF Presentations
  • Stephan Lehmke's TeXPower
  • Prosper is based on the `seminar' LaTeX class.
• Guidelines on Effective Scientific Electronic Publishing. Also take a look at Using LaTeX to Create Quality PDF Documents for the World Wide Web
• Critical edition typesetting: EDMAC, by John Lavagnino.
• David Kastrup on Editor support for LaTeX