Interesting TeX-related URLs
This is a list compiled for the TeX Users Group
by Sebastian Rahtz, with the help of
Michel Goossens and Barbara Beeton, and many helpful people who sent in
corrections. More contributions welcome!
Don Knuth
Donald Knuth 's
home page
- Local TeX Users Groups
- FAQ, documentation
- CTAN interfaces
- Free or shareware TeX implementations
- Commercial TeX vendors
- Packages and programs
- Projects
- TeX on the Web, and related software
- Publications
- Publishers
- Miscellaneous
- Related text-processing
If you have a general question, you should start with the
Frequently Asked Questions prepared by the UK TeX Users Group;
this is also available formatted in various forms for ftp on
CTAN . German speakers should look at the German FAQ from
DANTE
(can be fetched using FTP from here ),
while French speakers will find much useful material on The LaTeX Navigator
Some important `standardization' documents you should be aware of are
- TDS , the TeX Directory Standard,
a recommended layout for TeX systems
- Fontname ,
a scheme by Karl Berry for naming TeX fonts
If you have problems with LaTeX, check the LaTeX 2e home page, and
the LaTeX
bugs database: ,a searchable back log of bugs and fixes
For some general help with LaTeX commands etc, look at
Online help for other bits of TeX software:
Another useful document is
Word-processor
to LaTeX convertors, a small FAQ maintained by
Wilfried Hennings about converting word-processor packages to LaTeX
Don't forget the newsgroup comp.text.tex
if you have queries not answered above, it's full of knowledgeable people.
The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) is the primary repository for
all free TeX-related material. There are various Web search engines,
including
CTAN-Web, which
is the search setup recommended by TUG
CTAN search
from Winnipeg
CTAN Search by Peter Flynn
DANTE CTAN Index
Index of /tex-archive/ on ftp.tex.ac.uk
Specifically for macro packages, look at
the catalogue by Graham Williams, available in various places:
Web2c , Karl Berry's monumental
and widely-used system for compiling all the important TeX software in C
TeX Live is a CD-ROM package from TUG
and other user groups which contains setups for most Unix systems
teTeX , Thomas Esser's packaging
of Web2c for many Unix systems
emTeX,
the classic DOS and OS/2 TeX setup by Eberhard Mattes
OzTeX for
the Macintosh, by Andrew Trevorrow
CMacTeX
for Macintosh, by Tom Kiffe
NTeX
(Linux TeX)
MikTeX,
a highly-regarded setup for Windows 95/NT
OS/2 TeX,
shareware setup for OS2/ put together by Juergen Kleinboehl
TeXgX ,
a Macintosh TeX (shareware) by Jonathan Kew
that can access the sophisticated features of GX fonts (such as
automatic ligatures, contextual swashes, etc)
Gary Gray maintains a full Web page for
Macintosh
TeX and LaTeX stuff.
The AMS TeX pages have a full list of
TeX implementations
and sources.
TCI Software Research sell
Scientific Word for Windows and Mac, a WYSIWYG program using TeX
in the background
Y&Y Inc Home Page:
sell TeX systems for Windows; also the makers of the Lucida
families of PostScript fonts.
Blue Sky Research sell
Textures for Macintosh
Ideal Fonts
sell virtual fonts for Textures
Personal TeX Inc sell
a package for DOS and Windows users
True TeX is a TrueType based
TeX for Windows
general list of vendors (including some without Web connections)
AASTeX (Version4.0 as of May 1995) (see also
AASTeX FAQ )
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
Feynmf , Thorsten Ohl's package for doing Feynman diagrams using LaTeX and Metafont/Metapost
Harvard package for bibliographies in LaTeX , by Peter Williams
PSTricks Notes by Denis Girou (including bug list)
The REVTeX package
Seminar (LaTeX slides), notes by Denis Girou (including bug list and FAQ)
XYpic , Kristoffer Rose and Ross Moore's graphics package,
specialising in commutative diagrams
AUC-TeX ,a sophisticated Emacs mode
for TeX
BibDB ,
a BibTeX Database Manager (DOS and Windows) by Eyal Doron
dvips , Tom Rokicki's widely-used dvi to PostScript driver
EMTEXGI , a Windows interface for emTeX
Excalibur , the Mac TeX-aware spell checker
Metapost ,John Hobby's version of Metafont that makes EPS files
stepTeX , porting the famous NeXTStep TeX previewer
xdvi , Paul Vojta's widely-used X Windows TeX previewer
Xindy ,a new index processor designed to replace makeindex
xtem_TeXmenu , X11 GUI for TeX and LaTeX
LaTeX 3 , the successor to LaTeX (one day)
e-TeX , extended TeX
Omega , Unicode-based TeX
Typesetting Chinese or
Japanese
HyperTeX ,
conventions for TeX hypertext
ASTER demo (spoken mathematics)
The Hyperlatex package
LaTeX to HTML
tex2html, commercial TeX to HTML
conversion system, which renders maths using the Symbol font (and other tricks)
ltoh, Russel Quong's customizable LaTeX to HTML converter
IBM Techexplorer Hypermedia Browser
TeX4ht , TeX and LaTeX for Hypertext, by Eitan Gurari
IDVI: a Java dvi viewer
TTMath: a TrueType/TeX Solution
HTeX: A Simplified LaTeX Interface for Web Documents
tth TeX to HTML
converter
Webbuilder,
MicroPress' version of TeX that writes HTML directly
If you are interested in math and SGML, look at
MathML,
the proposal for math on the Web, and a standard DTD. Also check out:
TeX-related bibibliographical collections maintained by Nelson Beebe
Cahiers Gutenberg
American Institute
of Physics (see REVTeX above)
American Astronomical Society (see AASTeX
above)
TeX and
LaTeX Macros for astronomers from STScI
AMS , American Mathematical Society
Shyster , James Popple's
case-based legal expert system which produces LaTeX output
International Ispell , the sophisticated interactive spell checker
that understands TeX markup
Nelson Beebe's home page
TeX crazy page
Metafont --> GIF
Rogue's gallery of past
TUG presidents
TeX
merchandising to benefit user groups
Some pointers to the wider context (SGML etc):
Michel Goossens' text-processing page
SGML Web Page
The Wider World of SGML on the Web
A list of Typography,
Calligraphy & Type-Related Books by Delve Withrington
Glossary of printing
terms
Typozines
This page
contains links to online magazines, e-zines and journals covering
typography and graphic design.
Sebastian Rahtz,
Last modified: $Date: 1998/03/02 10:40:42 $
Please send comments to
s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk
Or look at Sebastian's daughter Matilde in
the Protestant Cemetery, Rome (225k GIF image, watch out).
webmaster@tug.org, March 12, 1998.
