TEX AND L^ATEX RESOURCES

Note: See also the pages on bibliography management software, text-editors, and utilities for resources related to TEX. The samples () page includes some batch files for use with MiKTEX.

Reference

• L^ATEX Tips & Tricks
• Man pages for teTEX, the package installed in skew3
• The U.K. list of TEX frequently asked questions. Also available in PDF format
• The Not So Short Introduction to L^ATEX, PDF file (106 pages)
• TEX Users Group (TUG)
• TEX Usenet news group
• TEX resources, University of Pennsylvania
• TEX, L^ATEX, BibTEX links from the Open Directory Project. Includes links to converters between MS Word, WordPerfect, RTF files, etc and L^ATEX
• Converters:
  • Excel2LaTeX
  • Excel to LaTex table converter (xl2latex.xls), an Excel macro written by Svend Jacobsen (Aarhus School of Business).
  • Word2LaTeX
• Using Imported Graphics in L^ATEX2e by Keith Reckdahl
• L^ATEX, Emacs etc. for your PC: A page indicating what packages to download, how to install and test a full installation of MiKTEX on a Windows workstation.
• American Mathematical Society TEX resources page
• Text processing using L^ATEX, from the University of Cambridge
• utilities::
  • TexPoint: a PowerPoint add-in that allows the use of L^ATEX symbols and formulas in PowerPoint

Books:

Available in the Research Computing Library.

• Goossens, Michel, Frank Mittelbach and Alexander Samarin (1994).The L^ATEX Companion. Addison-Wesley.
• Goossens, Michel, Sebastian Rahtz and Frank Mittelbach (1997). The L^ATEX Graphics Companion. Illustrating documents with TEX and PostScript. Addison-Wesley.
• Grätzer, George (2000). Math Into L^ATEX, Birkhäuser Springer, third edition.
• Kopka, Helmut and Patrick W. Daly (1999). A Guide to L^ATEX. Document Preparation for Beginners and Advanced Users. Addison-Wesley, Third edition.
• Lamport, Leslie (1994). L^ATEX. A Document Preparation System. User's Guide and Reference Manual. Addison-Wesley, second edition.

Software

Commercial:

• pcTEX
• Scientific Word / Scientific WorkPlace
• Y&Y

Freeware: (see the TEX Users Group for more links)

• CTAN, the Comprehensive TEX Archive Network, the repository for all things TEX (programs, macros, etc)
• MikTEX, a free L^ATEX distribution for Windows. It is bundled with several useful utilities (PSUtils, Dvips and others). MikTEX users recommend installing GhostScript and GhostView and Active Perl for a full installation.

  MiKTeX resources:

  • MiKTeX installation
  • Installation of the Eurosans package in MiKTeX
  • Archives of the MikTeX listserv.
• LyX, a graphical user interface for L^ATEX under Linux.

Related utilities:

• Northwestern dissertation template and Scientific WorkPlace
• Northwestern dissertation template and MikTEX
• L^ATEX templates from Northwestern's Mathematics Department
• Installing and Running NTEmacs/AucTeX with MikTeX, page written by Kent Daniel.
• L^ATEX2HTML, a conversion tool to translate L^ATEX into HTML documents. Fixes for problems installing this tool: L^ATEX2HTML Installation Problems.
• Word2TeX, a utility that enables Microsoft Word to save documents in LaTeX format, including equations.
• Prosper, a LaTeX class for writing transparencies
• IBM techexplorer, a plug-in for Netscape and IE that supports the display of mathematical markup language (MathML), TEX and L^ATEX documents.