Projects

LaTeX

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

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.

LyX

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

TeX Live

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 that are free software, including support for many ... [More] languages around the world. TeX Live is the successor to teTeX. [Less]

MiKTeX

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.

AUCTeX

AUCTeX is an extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports many different TeX macro packages, including AMS-TeX, LaTeX, Texinfo, ConTeXt, and docTeX (dtx files). AUCTeX includes preview-latex which makes LaTeX a tightly integrated component of your ... [More] editing workflow by visualizing selected source chunks (such as single formulas or graphics) directly as images in the source buffer. [Less]

Kile

claimed by KDE

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

GNU LilyPond Music Typesetter

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

JabRef

JabRef is a graphical Java application for managing bibtex (. bib) databases. It uses the bitex format as native file format, which makes it ideal for collaborating. JabRef can import bibliographies in numerous formats, provides extensive searching, sorting, and grouping features, can automatically ... [More] create bibtex keys, and can insert citations into TeXstudio, OpenOffice, WinEdit, LyX, and more. With Bibtex4word, an intengration with Microsoft Word is also possible. [Less]

pdfTeX

The main purpose of the pdfTeX project is to create and maintain an extension of TeX that can produce PDF directly from TeX source files and improve/enhance the result of TEX typesetting with the help of PDF. When PDF output is not selected, pdfTEX produces normal DVI output, otherwise it generates ... [More] PDF output that looks identical to the DVI output. An important aspect of this project is to investigate alternative justification algorithms (e. g. a font expansion algorithm akin to the hz micro--typography algorithm by Prof. Hermann Zapf), optionally making use of Multiple Master fonts. pdfTEX is based on the original TeX sources and Web2c, and has been successfully compiled on Unix, Win32 and MSDOS systems. [Less]