TeX, LaTeX, and BibTeX resources
Last update:
Wed Apr 24 10:59:49 2024
This site supplies links to locally-written documents and
journal articles about TeX, LaTeX, and BibTeX, as well as
pointers to downloadable images and repository selection
for the annual TeX Live releases, and archives of related
free software.
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25 years of TeX and METAFONT: Looking back and looking forward
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Bibliographer's toolbox
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Bibliography prettyprinting and syntax checking
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Bibliography of publications about TeX
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BibTeX meets relational databases
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BibTeX Information and Tutorial
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Brief introduction to TeX and LaTeX
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Complete TUGboat Bibliography
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Design of TeX and METAFONT: A retrospective
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Extending TeX and METAFONT with floating-point arithmetic
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Font family sampler
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LaTeX Font Catalogue
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LaTeX unofficial reference manual
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Learn LaTeX [available in multiple languages]
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A simple program whose proof isn't
[Donald Knuth's description of binary / decimal conversion in TeX]
doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-4476-9_28
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Tips on indexing LaTeX documents
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Typesetting and writing hints for theses and dissertations
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Typesetting multilingual verbatim text with pdflatex
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Typesetting multilingual text with lualatex and xelatex
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University of Utah support for writing dissertations and theses in LaTeX [original]
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University of Utah Department of Mathematics
support for writing dissertations and theses in LaTeX
[new and experimental, for use only by Mathematics students from Fall 2018]
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TeX Live 2024
development site and ISO-image download links
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Project Gutenberg Roget Thesaurus
(compendium of synonyms, useful when you need
reminding of prose alternatives)
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BibNet Project
bibliography archive site, with about
200 author- and subject-specific
bibliographies, primarily about numerical mathematics
and about the pioneers of computer science and quantum
mechanics [almost 148,000 BibTeX
entries]
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TeX User Group
bibliography archive site, with almost
1300
journal- and subject-specific
bibliographies, covering the history of mathematics,
the history of physical sciences, numerical
mathematics, probability, statistics, and major areas
of computer science
[more than 1,830,000 BibTeX entries]
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Software archives
for TeX, BibTeX, LaTeX, Emacs, and many others
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Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)
at http://tug.ctan.org/ (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
and http://ctan.tug.org/ (Heidelberg, Germany)
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CTAN mirror list
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TeX Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) List
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TeX Live manual
(English-language edition; about ten other language
editions are available in any TeX Live installation)
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TeX Live repository selection:
# display current repository
tlmgr repository list
# TeX Live development pretest
tlmgr option repository http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive/tlpretest
# TeX Live master North American mirror in Salt Lake City, UT, USA
tlmgr option repository http://ctan.math.utah.edu/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
# TeX Live worldwide master in Heidelberg, Germany
tlmgr option repository http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
# one-time repository change
tlmgr -repository http://ctan.math.utah.edu/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
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TeX Live updating:
# update tlmgr software
tlmgr update --self
# update all other TeX Live software
tlmgr update --all
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TeX Users Group
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To find the name of an unknown mathematical symbol,
visit the
detexify
Web site, where you can draw the symbol, and find
its TeX name, and the package(s) that define(s) it.
Comments and questions about this site, its documents, and
its software, may be directed to their
author via
e-mail to
beebe@math.utah.edu.