Projects tagged ‘latex’ and ‘typography’

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.

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.

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

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]

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]