BIBTE X

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.

• 25 years of TeX and METAFONT: Looking back and looking forward
• Bibliographer's toolbox
• Bibliography prettyprinting and syntax checking
• Bibliography of publications about TeX
• BibTeX meets relational databases
• BibTeX Information and Tutorial
• Brief introduction to TeX and LaTeX
• Complete TUGboat Bibliography
• Design of TeX and METAFONT: A retrospective
• Extending TeX and METAFONT with floating-point arithmetic
• Font family sampler
• LaTeX Font Catalogue
• LaTeX unofficial reference manual
• Learn LaTeX [available in multiple languages]
• 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
• Tips on indexing LaTeX documents
• Typesetting and writing hints for theses and dissertations
• Typesetting multilingual verbatim text with pdflatex
• Typesetting multilingual text with lualatex and xelatex
• University of Utah support for writing dissertations and theses in LaTeX [original]
• 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]
• TeX Live 2024 development site and ISO-image download links
• Project Gutenberg Roget Thesaurus (compendium of synonyms, useful when you need reminding of prose alternatives)
• 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]
• 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]
• Software archives for TeX, BibTeX, LaTeX, Emacs, and many others
• Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) at http://tug.ctan.org/ (Salt Lake City, UT, USA) and http://ctan.tug.org/ (Heidelberg, Germany)
• CTAN mirror list
• TeX Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) List
• TeX Live manual (English-language edition; about ten other language editions are available in any TeX Live installation)
• 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
  

• TeX Live updating:

      # update tlmgr software
      tlmgr update --self
  
      # update all other TeX Live software
      tlmgr update --all
  

• TeX Users Group
• 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.