Awesome LaTeX

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

Contents

• Awesome LaTeX
  • Contents
• 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
• Legend

Distributions

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

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?
• TikZ-Editor -
• KTikz
• IPE
• TPx. Abandoned?
• GeoGebra. Cross-platform geometry tool with output to TikZ.
• Dia

Editors

Because editing LaTeX code with notepad is not awesome.

LaTeX-focussed

Some of the most awesome editor for LaTeX do just that: edit LaTeX

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

General purpose text editors

These editors are no one-trick ponies: sure, they edit LaTeX, but they can do a lot more!

• Atom

  • LaTeXTools

• Sublime Text

  • LaTeXing
  • LaTeXTools

• Emacs

  • AucTeX

• Vim

Online editors

Online editors that allow you to edit documents collaboratively.

• Authorea - Online editor with built-in git support and bibliography tools.
• ShareLaTeX - Has pretty great LaTeX documentation and simple version control.
• Overleaf - Online editor, also with a WYSIWYM editor and git support.
• Papeeria - Online editor with built-in git support.

Bibliography tools

• JabRef - No-nonsense bibtex editor that is cross-platform (Java).
• Bibdesk
• Zotero
• Mendeley

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

• TeXample - Blog about LaTex, with a big collection of TikZ figures.

PSTricks

Templates

• LaTeX templates - Collection of templates for papers, posters, resumés, theses, books, presentations, … for LaTeX.
• HowtoTeX: templates - Different templates for LaTeX under a CC-NC-SA license.

Symbols

• Comprehensive LaTeX symbol list - A very extensive list of symbols for LaTeX. Available in A4 and letter sizes.
• Detexify - You draw the symbol and this site/app will tell you the LaTeX command.

Resources

• TUG - The TeX User Group is a way to get in touch with other (La)TeX users.
• TeXDoc - Online interface to the texdoc utility to browse LaTeX packages and documentation.
• http://www.dickimaw-books.com/latexresources.html
• TUG: TeX showcase
• TeXample - Blog about LaTex, with a big collection of TikZ figures.

Tutorials

• The (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e - A very comprehensive introduction to LaTeX.

Books

• WikiBooks: LaTeX - The LaTeX wikibook. Not really a paper book, but it is equally extensive.
• The LaTeX Companion, F. Mittelbach (2004)
• LaTeX Graphics Companion, M. Goossens (2007)

Social media

• Twitter: @TeXtip - Tips related to (La)TeX by John D. Cook.

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TODO

Some random stuff that still needs to be categorized.

• http://www.howtotex.com/general/12-great-resources-for-getting-started-with-latex/
• http://latex.howtotex.com
• https://github.com/MartinThoma/LaTeX-examples/
• http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/
• http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/wiki/index.php/TeX_Extras
• chktex, diction, ...

Legend

What are all these weird icons all over the place?

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