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.

Kile

claimed by KDE

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

TeXmacs

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 (text, graphics, mathematics, interactive content ... [More] , 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]

wiko

WiKo is a very simple but powerful python script which takes files with wiki content in a given directory and either builds a web, a LaTeX article or a blog. It is very recommended to use it in tandem with a collaborative versioning system such as cvs or subversion in order to publish on commit.

LuaTeX

LuaTeX is an extended version of pdfTeX using Lua as an embedded scripting language. The LuaTeX projects main objective is to provide an open and configurable variant of TeX while at the same time offering downward compatibility.

Platypus

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. Planned are features of particular benefit to developers and technical writers ... [More] , 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 using the iText library, Word RTF (in early development), or HTML (coming soon). Written in Java. Not feature complete, but under active development. Binaries, code, docs, and schedule of releases at the website. [Less]