Recently, I am doing some research on LaTeX and BibTeX. With trying to extract metadata information from LaTeX, I have done much research and found many projects about it. Although, there are no suitable projects for me until now, but I would like to write a description about all such resources, until I found the following website today.

http://www.tug.org/interest.html

I hope it can help some one to learn and find your interesst on Tex!

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Where to find help and documentation

If you have a general question, start with the TeX Frequently Asked Questions. And if it doesn't help, try the visual FAQ.

Overviews of the TeX world:

• Basic explanation of editing, typesetting, word processing, etc., and how TeX fits in the picture. (Courtesy of Gerben Wierda.)
• Pointers to Frequently Asked TeX Questions.
• The Wikipedia article on TeX.
• What is TeX?, a collection of one-page answers by several authors.

General TeX help:

• TeX Frequently Asked Questions list prepared by the UK TeX Users Group; this is also available in various other formats.
• Pointers to Frequently Asked TeX Questions.
• LaTeX previewer, an online form for quickly entering some LaTeX and seeing the result. (There's also a MetaPost previewer.)
• LaTeX Navigator: A (La)TeX encyclopaedia, with many links on (La)TeX, typography, tools, graphics, bibliographies, and literate programming.
• DE-TeX-FAQ - Fragen und Antworten über TeX und DANTE e.V. for German speakers, from Dante.
• Foire Aux Questions française ; n'oubliez pas le groupe fr.comp.text.tex si vous n'avez pas trouvé de réponse à vos questions.

If you have questions not answered by the above, read on for more documentation links, or the most widely used general help forums for TeX are (no guarantees, this is all done by volunteers):

• the newsgroup comp.text.tex.
  
• The mailing list support@tug.org (aka texhax).
• The #latex chat room on Freenode.

  LaTeX manuals:

  • The not so Short Introduction to LaTeX2e, by Tobias Oetiker (pdf, ps, source in many languages).
  • Formatting Information, by Peter Flynn (html or pdf). Includes installation and usage information.
  • The LaTeX 2e home page, and the LaTeX bugs database, a searchable collection of bugs and fixes.

  LaTeX tutorials:

  • List of (La)TeX tutorials and reference documentation given in the TeX FAQ.
  • LaTeX tutorials and information from Nicola Talbot.
  • LaTeX tutorials from TUGIndia, the Indian TeX Users Group.
  • LaTeX tutorials from Andy Roberts.
  • A Simplified Introduction to LaTeX by Harvey J. Greenberg (PS file-1.1M).

  LaTeX reference:

  • Hypertext Help with LaTeX by Sheldon Green at NASA (a reference document for LaTeX 2.09, but still a nice supplement to the above).
  • LaTeX 2e reference pages (from Martin Herbert Dietze).
  • LaTeX Comprehensive Symbol List, by Scott Pakin.
  • Essential LaTeX ++ by Jon Warbrick et al. (TeX source file)
  • TeX-related documentation at the University of Cambridge.
  • TeXikon, a handbook in German on TeX and LaTeX, by Rudolf Potucek and Stefan Schwarz, published by Addison-Wesley (ISBN 3-8931-9690-0).

  LaTeX for particular fields:

  • LaTeX for linguists, from the CL/MT group at the University of Essex.
  • LaTeX for logicians, by Peter Smith.
  • LaTeX for molecular biologists, by Tom Schneider; also includes a large list of general resources.
  • Using LaTeX for NIH grant applications, by Bruce Donald.
  • Word-processor-to-LaTeX converters (and back the other way), maintained by Wilfried Hennings.

  Books on LaTeX:

  • A Guide to LaTeX2e, by Helmut Kopka and Patrick Daly (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-321-17385-6, fourth edition, 2003).
  • The LaTeX Companion, by Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-54199-8, second edition, 2004).
  • The LaTeX Web Companion: Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML, by Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, Eitan Gurari, Ross Moore and Robert Sutor (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-43311-7).
  • The LaTeX Graphics Companion, by Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, and Frank Mittelbach (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-85469-4).
  • Digital Typography Using LaTeX, by Apostolos Syropoulos, Antonis Tsolomitis, and Nick Sofroniou (Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-95217-9).
  • First Steps in LaTeX, by George Grätzer (Birkhauser, ISBN 0-8176-4132-7).
  • Math into LaTeX, by George Grätzer (Birkhauser Boston and Springer Verlag New York, ISBN 0-8176-4131-9 and ISBN 3-7648-4131-9). Download Part I of the book in Postscript or PDF format.

  Online help for other TeX-related software:

  • tex-refs, reference information on many parts of the TeX system, including LaTeX.
  • MetaPost.
  • MakeIndex: An Index Processor for LaTeX, by Leslie Lamport.
  • MakeIndex, from Norm Walsh.
  • Reference cards for AMSTeX and Plain TeX, by Joseph Silverman.
  • Word Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-put-er, Frank Liang's thesis describing TeX's hyphenation algorithm, as implemented via the patgen program.

  More references to works on typography and printing, and references to TeX.

  Fonts:

  • Discussion of available fonts, both free and commercial.
  • Font Installation Guide: Using PostScript fonts to their full potential with LaTeX, by Philipp Lehman (91pp, pdf).
  • Installing PostScript fonts in LaTeX, by Peter Flynn.
  • Typeface sampler, by Peter Flynn, showing all the Type 1 and Type 3 typefaces which are freely available (pdf, with sources and more samples).
  • Using TrueType fonts with (pdf)(La)TeX, by Damir Rakityansky.
  • Essential NFSS users guide by Sebastian Rahtz; then see Font selection in LaTeX by Walter Schmidt.
  • Fontname, a naming scheme for TeX fonts.
  • The STIX web site at AMS, a project for getting mathematical characters into Unicode, and creating fonts with them.

  Graphics:

  • Graphics links on tex.loria.fr, especially Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX 2e by Keith Recksdahl, and Graphics and Colour by Patrick Daly.
  • Mathematical illustrations: a manual of geometry and PostScript, a book by Bill Casselman.
  • Graphics for inclusion in electionic documents, by Ian Hutchinson. Real-world problems and discussion of getting images into a form that will import properly in (La)TeX documents.
  • Comparison of screen presentation systems, mostly (La)TeX-based, by Michael Wiedmann. (See also the seminar documentation here on tug.org.)

  Help with plain TeX:

  • A book on plain TeX: TeX by Topic, A TeXnician's Reference, by Victor Eijkhout (Addison-Wesley, 1992; 307pp).
  • TeX for the Impatient, by Paul Abrahams, Kathryn Hargreaves, and Karl Berry (Addison-Wesley, 1990; 357pp).
  • Plain TeX, from Norm Walsh.

  Books on plain TeX:

  • A Beginner's Book of TeX, by Silvio Levy and Raymond Seroul (Springer Verlag, ISBN 0-387-97562-4).
  • TeX for the Beginner, by Wynter Snow (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-54799-6).
  • To proto vima sto TeX, Greek translation and enhancement of TeX starting from square one, by Dimitrios Filippou (Paratiritis Editions, ISBN 960-374-081-0, 2001).

  Overall TeX system:

  • TDS, the TeX Directory Structure standard, a recommended layout for TeX systems.
    
  • A freely available book on the TeX system: Making TeX Work, by Norman Walsh (O'Reilly, 1994; 15 chapters, 6 appendices).
  • Victor Eijkhout's course notes, with a basic intro to LaTeX usage, explanation of font encodings, and a computer science approach to many aspects of TeX.
  • <TeX and Its World, an introductory slide show by Dave Walden. Aimed at giving a general audience an overview of TeX. Includes full speaking notes along with the slides.

  Also see the AMS list of TeX resources and TeX-related publications. You may also want to check out Bibliography on TeX & Co from LORIA, Nancy, France.

  Finally, the TeX category in the Open Directory Project has a large list of links. (Please also submit new sites there.)

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  Free TeX implementations

  TeX Live is a distribution from most TeX user groups which contains setups for many Unix systems, Macintosh, and 32-bit Windows, starting from teTeX and web2c-win32 (see below).
  

  Web2c, a widely-used system for compiling all the important TeX software in C.
  teTeX, Thomas Esser's packaging of Web2c for many Unix systems.
  TeXLive-teTeX for MacOS X, a highly-regarded setup developed by Gerben Wierda.
  web2c-win32 (fpTeX) a complete port of web2c for Win32 by Fabrice Popineau, including a port of Xdvi for windows (windvi); also on CTAN in systems/win32/web2c
  

  emTeX, the classic DOS and OS/2 TeX setup by Eberhard Mattes.
  

  Knoppix, a live Linux system on a bootable CD that includes TeX.
  MikTeX, a highly-regarded setup for Windows 95/NT
  NTeX, (Unix and Linux TeX based on Web2c 7.2)
  PasTeX, for Amiga.
  

  The AMS TeX pages have a good list of public domain TeX implementations and sources.

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  TeX extension projects

  • e-TeX, extended TeX (available on CTAN in systems/e-tex).
  • LaTeX 3, the successor to LaTeX (one day).
  • Omega, Unicode-based TeX (available on CTAN as part of web2c). FAQ entry.
  • Aleph, essentially Omega + bug fixes + e-TeX. May be folded back into Omega eventually. FAQ entry.
  • pdfTeX, a TeX variant by Hàn Thế Thành which can produce PDF output instead of DVI (available on CTAN as part of systems/web2c/); the manual, useful examples, and a FAQ can be found at /applications/pdftex/.
  • XeTeX, a TeX implementation by Jonathan Kew for MacOS X, with Unicode and native font support. (TeXgX is a predecessor for MacOS 7.)
  • Ant, a typesetting system similar to TeX written in Objective Caml, by Achim Blumensath.

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  Packages and programs

  LaTeX, biggest and most widely used TeX macro package
  ConTeXt, Hans Hagen's powerful, modern, TeX macro package; a serious contender for those wanting a production-quality publishing system. Integrated support for XML, MetaPost, and much more.

  Free editors and front-ends (see also vendors below):

  • AUC-TeX for Emacs, a sophisticated TeX environment.
  • iTeXMac for MacOSX.
  • Kile for KDE/Linux.
  • LaTeXEditor for Windows, an update of TeXnicCenter.
  • LyX for Windows and X, a well-developed front end for TeX.
  • pfe (Programmer's File Editor) for Windows.
  • SciTe for Windows and X, a free source code editor.
  • Texmaker for Unix, MacOSX and Windows, well-developed and documented front-end for LaTeX.
  • TeXnicCenter for Windows, an integrated environment for LaTeX composition.
  • WineFish for Gnome/Linux.
  • TeXShop for MacOSX.
  • Winshell for Windows.

  AMS-TeX and AMS-LaTeX , the American Mathematical Society's TeX packages
  asymptote, a modern MetaPost replacement with a C++-like syntax and floating-point numerics, by Andy Hammerlindl, John Bowman, and Tom Prince.
  EDMAC, Dominik Wujastyk and John Lavagnino's package for typestting critical editions
  ePiX, Andy Hwang's C++-based graphics language
  Eplain, extended plain format
  Eukleides, geometry diagrams with output in pstricks, including graphical frontend
  Feynmf, Thorsten Ohl's package for doing Feynman diagrams using LaTeX and Metafont/Metapost
  Harvard package, for bibliographies in LaTeX, by Peter Williams
  IPE, a multi-platform graphics editor.
  LaTeXPiX, Windows program that generates LaTeX pictures.
  PSTricks Notes by Denis Girou (including bug list)
  The REVTeX package
  TeXCAD, a Windows program for drawing or retouching LaTeX {picture}s; distributed under the GPL.
  Seminar (LaTeX slides), notes by Denis Girou (including bug list and FAQ)
  Xy-pic, Kristoffer Rose and Ross Moore's graphics package, specialising in commutative diagrams.
  xy-pic tutorial in Portuguese, by Carlos Campani. EMTEXGI, a Windows interface for emTeX
  

  DVI drivers:

  • dvips, Tom Rokicki's widely-used dvi to PostScript driver
    
  • xdvi, Paul Vojta's widely-used DVI previewer for the X window system.
  • xdvik, the Kpathsea variant of xdvi.
  • dvipdfmx, extended version of Mark Wicks' original DVI to PDF converter, by Shunsaku Hirata and Jin-Hwan Cho.
  • dvisvg, for conversion to the W3C SVG (scalable vector graphics) format.
  • dvii, for looking at DVI files and summarizing the contents (fonts, specials, etc.), by Adam H. Lewenberg.
  • IDVI a Java DVI viewer.

  Excalibur, the Mac TeX-aware spell checker
  Kdissert, a writing tool to help structure ideas and concepts (for KDE).
  designer for LaTeX.
  PyTeX, Python programming plus TeX typesetting.
  MetaPost, John Hobby's version of Metafont that makes EPS files; see also TUG's MetaPost page.
  stepTeX, porting the famous NeXTStep TeX previewer
  TechWriter Pro   Used in connection with EasiWriter, TechWriter provides an equation editor which exports to HTML, as a TeX file, and has Java support.
  LaTeX Generator, for making LaTeX template documents (in German).
  preview-latex, WYSIWYGish in-line previews right in your Emacs source buffer
  texd, TeX as a daemon with a callable interface, written in Python.
  gsftopk is Paul Vojta's program to make PK bitmaps from Type1 fonts, useful for many TeX previewers
  TeXmacsA WYSIWYG editor for typing technical and mathematical text.
  TeXpict is a useful drawing package which exports to LaTeX
  Xindy,a new index processor designed to replace makeindex
  TeXaide, a special free version of Mathtype's Equation Editor, generating TeX markup
  MathType and the Equation Editor in MS Word. MathType is a WYSIWYG equation editor that outputs TeX.
  
  

  Multi-lingual typesetting in scripts and languages around the world:
  

  • African typesetting paper (PDF), with discussion of TeX.
  • Ekushey typing system -- Bengali for Microsoft Word. This is a GNU licenced add-in for Word 97/2000/XP that enables Bengali typing.It has an export to TeX option, meaning that it can be used either as a conversion tool or as a WYSIWYG Bengali TeX editor.
  • The Chinese TeX Society provides the major CCT, ctex, and other packages for Chinese typesetting, including a downloadable distribution based on MiKTeX. Other CTeX links: wiki, forum, ftp.
  • ChiTeX for Chinese typesetting; Chinese directory on CTAN. See also this recipe for getting started with ChiTeX and Emacs.
  • CSTeX, LaTeX and plain TeX support for Czech and Slovak users, including special fonts.
  • Japanese LaTeX (Platex) and related tools for pdf authoring by Young Joon Moon, as part of a self-initiated project to guide Japanese learners and Japanese to master kanji (Japanese/Chinese characters) with minimal effort.
  • Hóng-Zì, a project to create a Chinese Metafonts. Contributors encouraged.
  • Using GNU/Linux and LaTeX to create Japanese language documents.
  • Japanese directory on CTAN.
  • sinhala_tex, Metafont fonts and a preprocessor for writing in the Sinhala script.

  BibTeX

  Bibliography collection, from Nelson Beebe.
  Tame the BeaST: The B to X of BibTeX, a comprehensive BibTeX manual by Nicolas Markey.
  Brief BibTeX description, from Norm Walsh.
  Aigaion, a php-based bibliography management system based on BibTeX.
  gbib, a BibTeX manager for GNU/Linux, including integration with LyX.
  ebib, BibTeX database manager for Emacs.
  JabRef, Java-based GUI for managing BibTeX databases.
  Pybliographer, a BibTeX tool which can be used for searching, editing, reformatting, etc. It provides Python classes, has a graphical GNOME interface, and references can be inserted directly into LyX (version 1.0.x running on the GNOME desktop.
  BibDB, a BibTeX Database Manager (DOS and Windows) by Eyal Doron.
  BibEdit, program for editing BibTeX files under Windows NT and 98.
  BibTeXMng, a BibTeX manager for Windows.
  HotReference.com, a community site for sharing bibliography citations and article reviews, with BibTeX support.
  BibTeX 101, an introduction to BibTeX by Oren Patashnik.

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  TeX web projects

  LaTeX2HTML translator to create Web pages from LaTeX documents. See also the manual and introductory article.
  TeX4ht, TeX and LaTeX for Hypertext, by Eitan Gurari. It supports LaTeX to XML, including MathML See also an update page talking about MathML. There is a useful guide on how to set it all up with MikTeX here.
  tex2page, Scheme-based TeX-to-HTML conversion for TeX and LaTeX.
  Hyperlatex, a set of macros for writing one document with both printed and HTML output.

  AMRITA is a system for communicating software-based ideas and information. It operates as a cross between a document preparation system, a computational engine, and a programming language.

  PassiveTeX, by Sebastian Rahtz, for processing XSL with TeX.
  GtkMathView for TeX-quality formatting of MathML, by Luca Padovani.
  ltoh, Russel Quong's customizable LaTeX to HTML converter
  tth TeX to HTML converter.
  tbookdtd, XML DTD for LaTeX documents, and HTML generation
  

  HyperTeX, original conventions for TeX hypertext
  HTeX A simplified LaTeX interface for Web documents
  H^eV^eA. A LaTeX to HTML translater, written in objective Caml.
  Markup Shredder, document conversion from HTML to PDF using TeX.
  ASTER demo (spoken mathematics)
  Texpider, MicroPress' version of TeX that writes HTML directly
  Techexplorer, a Web browser plugin from IBM which renders TeX markup
  

  Supporting (La)TeX equations within HTML, etc.:
  EquationService, equations to pdf.
  Formula Freehand Entry System (FFES), a pen-based equation editor. Gladtex, equations to images via batch perl/Ghostscript/LaTeX/dvips.
  InftyReader, OCR for equations with LaTeX output.
  mimetex.cgi, equation typesetting for web pages via a cgi script.
  webmath, equation typesetting for web pages via an applet.
  

  If you are interested in math and XML, look at MathML, the proposal for math on the Web, and a standard DTD. There is a comprehensive general guide to the Mathematical Markup Language, maintained by Pankaj Kamthan.

  Related software:

  • MINSE: a math polymediator
    
  • WebEQ a Java Equation viewer
    
  • MathView: an interactive math plug-in from Waterloo Maple
    
  • Communicating Math with Hypertext
  • Including Math Notation in Web Pages
  • Mathscape Michael Barnettt's work on symbolic calculation for electronic publishing. (See mcmt.ps for a PostScript file [size about 7700k].)

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  Commercial and shareware TeX vendors

  The AMS TeX pages have a good list of Commercial TeX implementations. This list includes many additional shareware and otherwise nonfree packages and projects.

  Applied Symbols, OpenType Computer Modern and Unimath, an OpenType math font.
  Blue Sky Research, sells Textures for Macintosh.
  CMacTeX for Macintosh, by Tom Kiffe
  DiffDoc, shareware for comparing html, pdf, and other documents.
  Easy table, a macro package for easy table creation by Khanh Ha.
  GrindEQ Math Utilities, for importing/exporting (AMS)(La)TeX documents to/from Microsoft Word.
  Ideal Fonts, sells virtual fonts for Textures.
  istorm, shareware for MacOS X, collaboration tool including dynamic conversion of math to pdf.
  Mackichan Software, Inc. sells Scientific Word for Windows and Mac, a WYSIWYG program using TeX in the background.
  MicroIMP: WYSIWYG LaTeX that requires no knowledge of TeX/LaTeX programming.
  OS/2 TeX, setup for OS/2 put together by Juergen Kleinboehl.
  OzTeX for the Macintosh, by Andrew Trevorrow
  Personal TeX Inc. sells and supports a complete TeX product for Windows.
  Publicon, from Wolfram Research, has sophisticated technical publishing, including export to LaTeX, AMSTeX, REVTeX, XML, and much more.
  SciLetter is commercial email software with equation support based on TeX.
  SciWriter is an XML-based scientific editor for mathematicians and scientists, from soft4science. (SciLetter and SciWriter are completely independent products from different vendors.)
  tex2html, commercial TeX to HTML conversion system, which renders math using the Symbol font (and other tricks)
  True TeX is a TrueType based TeX for Windows.
  VTeX includes a TeX IDE, visual tools, HTML, PDF, PS and SVG backends, and many math and text fonts.
  WinEdt, a very powerful TeX editor and shell for Windows 9X/NT.
  word2tex, shareware from Chikrii Softlab for converting Word documents to LaTeX (and tex2word for the other direction).
  Y&Y was a TeX system for Windows; they're out of business now, but their web pages are available here.
  3B2: made by Advent Publishing Systems, Ltd., high-end professional publishing with built-in WYSIWYG TeX support and full SGML conformance. Offices in the UK, Ireland, USA.

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  Publisher-provided TeX and LaTeX styles

  See also the excellent page on Journals Accepting Manuscripts written using LaTeX by Gabriel Valiente.

  A number of publishers provide ready-made style packages.

  • AAAI Press publications: How to Obtain AAAI Macros and Templates (LaTeX)
  • Academic Press: Preparation and Transmission of Electronic Materials (LaTeX)
  • American Mathematical Society Author Packages for Publishing with the AMS (AMS-TeX and AMS-LaTeX).
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP - Manuscript preparation: Technical instructions for LaTeX.
  • Cambridge University Press: The Journal of Functional Programming (LaTeX)
  • Elsevier Science Publishers: Elsevier LaTeX package (LaTeX).
  • IEEE Publications: IEEE information for authors (LaTeX).
  • Kluwer Academic Publishers: Journal Author Instructions (LaTeX).
  • Reviews of Modern Physics: LaTeX Macros for Compuscript Submissions
  • SIAM Publications: SIAM TeX resources (TeX, LaTeX and AMS-TeX).
  • Springer Verlag: Welcome to Authors (TeX and LaTeX)

  Scholarly and publishing organization

  • Society for Scholarly Publishing
  • American Association of University Professors
  • Assoc. of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (European)

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  Miscellaneous

  Historic TeX files and distributions.
  Museums of Typography
  LaTeX publicity leaflet by Peter Flynn.
  TeX merchandising to benefit user groups
  The beauty of LaTeX, a short comparison of typesetting quality in TeX and Microsoft Word, by Dario Taraborelli.
  A list of Typography, Calligraphy & Type-Related Books by Delve Withrington
  Typozines This page contains links to online magazines, e-zines and journals covering typography and graphic design.
  The Free Software Magazine is produced using TeX, and has occasional articles about it.
  Shyster, James Popple's case-based legal expert system which produces LaTeX output
  Nelson Beebe's home page
  Rogue's gallery of past TUG presidents
  WYSIWYG Word Processors Allin Cottrell's entertaining article with a strong bias for LaTeX and against word processors.
  GNU TeXmacs: A free, structured, wysiwyg and technical editor An article by Joris van der Hoeven demonstrating why structured WYSIWYG editing is possible and desirable.
  Humanities books typeset with TeX, Tseng Books.
  Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders - proofread OCR'd text of public domain books a page at a time, when you have time. All books are distributed freely. Includes math books, which are entered using TeX.