Awesome LaTeX

This is a curated list of awesome stuff for the (La)TeX typesetting system.

Contents

• Awesome LaTeX

  • Contents
  • Legend

• Distributions

• Engines

  • LaTeX formulas on the web

• Tools

• LaTeX-compatible tools

• Editors

  • LaTeX-focussed
  • General purpose text editors
  • Online editors

• Bibliography tools

• Packages

  • Tables
  • Graphics
    • TikZ
    • PSTricks

• Templates

• Resources

Distributions

• MacTeX - Most common LaTeX distribution for Mac OS X, basically TeXLive with some Mac-specific tools added.
• MikTeX - Most common LaTeX distribution for Windows (only).
• TeX Live - Most common LaTeX distribution for Unices and Linux, but also works on Windows.

Engines

• pdfTeX - TeX compiler that produces PDF files immediately instead of DVI files (nowadays, this is the standard compiler for many users).
• XeTeX - TeX compiler that provides better unicode and font support than TeX/pdfTeX (i.e. you can use the fonts of your operating system instead of only TeX fonts).
• LuaTeX - (La)TeX compiler that supports Lua code for scripting and has improved unicode and font support than standard TeX/pdfTeX.

LaTeX formulas on the web

• MathJaX - JavaScript engine to render mathematical formulas on the web. The outcome looks really slick.
• mimeTeX - mimeTeX is a rather old tool to render LaTeX formulas to PNG figures for your web site, without actually needing a LaTeX installation on your server.
• mathTeX - mathTeX is the successor of mimeTeX: it produces nicer-looking images but it requires LaTeX to be installed on your server.

Tools

• Pandoc
• Online Math editors
• LaTeXiT - LaTeXit is an equation editor that makes it easy to drag-and-drop rendered equations into your documents on the Mac.

LaTeX-compatible tools

• TikzEdt - WYSIWYG and text-based editor for TikZ pictures. : GitHub repo. Abandonded?
• KTikz
• IPE
• TPx. Abandoned?
• http://www.geogebra.org/cms/
• https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia
• https://github.com/fredokun/TikZ-Editor -

Editors

Because editing LaTeX code with notepad is not awesome.

LaTeX-focussed

• Kile
• TeXMaker
• WinEdt
• TeXniCenter
• LyX
• TeXshop

General purpose text editors

• Atom

  • LaTeX

• Sublime Text

  • LaTeXing
  • LaTeXTools

• Emacs

  • AucTeX

• Vim

Online editors

Online editors that allow you to edit documents collaboratively.

• ShareLaTeX
• Overleaf
• Papeeria
• Authorea

Bibliography tools

Packages

• CTAN - The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network is the place to look for useful packages and documentation.

Tables

• Excel2LaTeX
• csv2latex
• Tables Generator - This website provides a graphical interface to input your table and produces properly-formatted code for LaTeX, Markdown, HTML, ...
• pgfplotstable - This package dis­plays nu­mer­i­cal ta­bles rounded to de­sired pre­ci­sion in var­i­ous dis­play for­mats. It can even read CSV files to include directly in your LaTeX document.

Graphics

TikZ

PSTricks

Templates

Resources

• http://www.dickimaw-books.com/latexresources.html
• http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/
• TeXample - Blog about LaTex, with a big collection of TikZ figures.

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