Projects tagged ‘typesetting’

LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.

A modular font rendering library.

teTeX is a complete TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems, maintained by me, Thomas Esser. It is based on the web2c distribution which is currently maintained by Olaf Weber. teTeX has been officially declared unmaintained by it's current maintainer, and users are suggested to change to TeX Live instead.

Pango is a library for laying out and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is needed, though most of the work on Pango so far has been done in the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+-2.x.

Scribus is a desktop page layout program with the aim of producing commercial grade output in PDF and Postscript.

MiKTeX is an up-to-date TeX implementation for the Windows operating system. TeX is a typesetting system written by Donald E. Knuth, who says that it is "intended for the creation of beautiful books - and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics". MiKTeX offers a complete set of utilities, macro packages and fonts.

LyX is a document processor using the "what you see is what you mean" (WYSIWYM) paradigm.

LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.

Kile is a user friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop environment. It simplifies the creation of LaTeX documents.

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

A typesetting system by Jonathan Kew and SIL International based on a merger of Donald Knuth's TeX system with Unicode and modern font technologies (multiple languages, support for AAT and OpenType advanced font features, trivial font installation).

TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with TeX. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors of Unix, including GNU/Linux, and also Windows. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts ... [More] that are free software, including support for many languages around the world. TeX Live is the successor to teTeX. [Less]

GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content ... [More] (text, graphics, mathematics, interactive content, etc.). The rendering engine uses high-quality typesetting algorithms so as to produce professionally looking documents, which can either be printed out or presented from a laptop. The software includes a text editor with support for mathematical formulas, a small technical picture editor and a tool for making presentations from a laptop. Moreover, TeXmacs can be used as an interface for many external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, statistics, etc. [Less]

The groff (GNU Troff) software is a typesetting package which reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output. Groff now supports HTML.

HarfBuzz is an OpenType Layout engine.

Platypus is a comprehensive and easy-to-use page layout and typesetting system. Similar in concept to tools such as TeX, Platypus adds new features, especially ease of use, to the generation of documents of all kinds. It has features of particular ... [More] benefit to developers and technical writers, such as intelligent, language-sensitive support for listings and code snippets. Input consists of text files with embedded commands and specifications (similar in concept to troff and TeX). These files are converted to PDF or HTML using the iText library. Written in Java. In early alpha (and not feature complete) but under active development. Binaries, code, docs, and schedule of releases at the websise. [Less]

Creates elegant, printable stafless lead sheets for musicians needing only chords and lyrics.

The TeXlipse plugin for Eclipse provides support for LaTeX projects. It is primarily aimed at users who already know the basics about LaTeX, newbies will surely find it useful but also a steeper learning curve. The following main features are ... [More] offered: * Syntax highlighting * Document outline * Code folding * Templates * Build support, also partial building * Annotations for errors (while editing) * Content assist (completion of commands and references) * Easy navigation with F3 * Outline of the current file and the full project * Spell checking * Menu with common LaTeX math symbols * BibTeX editor and BibTeX-support * Line wrapping * Table editor * Support for several platforms (Windows, Linux, OS X) * ...and many more [Less]

MuseScore is a free WYSIWYG music score typesetter for Linux, licenced under GNU GPL.

libLASi is library that provides a C++ stream output interface ( with operator << ) for creating PostScript documents that can contain characters from any of the script and symbol blocks supported in Unicode and by the Pango layout engine.

NoteEdit is a free music score editor for Linux. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of written notes, chord markings, lyrics, a number of import and export filters to many formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MUP, PMX, MusiXTeX and LilyPond and more!

A re-implementation of the reliable and successful typesetting engine TeX. ExTeX's main goal is to provide much better extensibility and flexibility than what can be achieved with plain old TeX. Moreover, ExTeX obeys to more modern standards, especially as far as font management and output formats are concerned.

What is TeXworks?An environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc) documents, with a Unicode-based, TeX-aware editor, integrated PDF viewer, and a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users. TeXworks is inspired by ... [More] Dick Koch's award-winning TeXShop program for Mac OS X, which has made quality typesetting through TeX accessible to a wider community of users, without a technical or intimidating face. The goal of TeXworks is to deliver a similarly integrated, easy-to-use environment for users on other platforms, especially GNU/Linux and Windows. For more information, see the TeXworks page at the TeX Users Group site. There is also a mailing list available for discussion of the project. RequirementsTo build the current TeXworks prototype from source, you will need to install developer packages (or equivalent) for: Qt4 (4.3.2 is known to work; later versions should also work. Note that on GNU/Linux, TeXworks may crash when changing the spell-checking language when using Qt 4.3.x. Updating to Qt 4.4.0 solves this.) http://trolltech.com/downloads/opensource#qt-open-source-edition Poppler (0.8.0 or later recommended, although 0.6 series should work) http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ Hunspell (at least 1.2.2 recommended; not tested with earlier versions) http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ libdbus (on X11-based platforms only; not used on Mac OS X or Windows) http://dbus.freedesktop.org/ along with their dependencies (such as Freetype, fontconfig, zlib, etc.) Details will depend on your platform. On GNU/Linux or similar systems, your package manager can probably provide all these. Feel free to contribute distribution-specific notes for the Building page. After installing the necessary libraries (and their headers), check the TeXworks.pro file and update paths as necessary; some of the paths currently in the project file are specific to one of my build machines. Once the project file is correct, run qmake to create a Makefile or Xcode project, and then run make or use Xcode to build the application. Do not run qmake -pro to recreate the .pro file, as it has been hand-edited. Note: on some systems, the default qmake may be a Qt3 version, in which case it will generate lots of warnings, and make will fail miserably; TeXworks is a Qt4 program. In that case, see if you have qmake-qt4, or perhaps run the Qt4 version using a full path. The current version of TeXworks has been successfully built with Xcode (using gcc 4) on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 gcc 4 on GNU/Linux a combination of mingw32 on Windows XP and the mingw32 cross-compiler hosted on Mac OS X Getting all the right libraries built and installed for the mingw32 build can be tricky. By slightly patching poppler 0.8.0, it is possible to build a version that does not depend on fontconfig (and thence on various other libraries), though it will then not work properly for PDFs with non-embedded fonts. To avoid having to build the poppler dependencies for Windows, you can get precompiled libraries from the KDE on Windows project. Alternatively, I believe it would also be possible to build with Visual C, but I have not done this personally. [Less]

Professional music typesetting, according to the book "The Art Of Music Copying" by Clinton Roemer. Reads MusicXML, CMN, ABC and Guido. Produces MIDI, PostScript, PDF, PNG and SVG; from small images for the web to full printable sheet music.