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Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 What is TeX/LaTeX?! 2 Beginners 3 FAQ, Help and Community 4 References 5 Endnotes

What is TeX/LaTeX?!

TeX ; written with a lowercase 'e' in imitation of the logo) is a typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth.

LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program.

LaTeX is most widely used by mathematicians, scientists, engineers, philosophers, scholars in academia and the commercial world, and other professionals.^[1] As a primary or intermediate format (e.g. translating DocBook and other XML-based formats to PDF), LaTeX is used because of the high quality of typesetting achievable by TeX. The typesetting system offers programmable desktop publishing features and extensive facilities for automating most aspects of typesetting and desktop publishing, including numbering and cross-referencing, tables and figures, page layout and bibliographies.

Wikipedia.en (TEX: Article, Authors; LATEX: Article, Authors)

Beginners

Introduction

• What are TeX, LaTeX and friends? (ctan.org)

Typesetting Guides

• LATEX Typesetting - Beginners Guide - Peter Flynn - 2003
• Simon Eveson. An Introduction to Mathematical Document Production Using AmSLaTeX.
• The TeX showcase Gallery of typesetting examples
• TeX for the Impatient (PDF)
• Walsh, Norman. Making TeX Work

Reference & Help - Sheets

• Plain TeX Quick Reference (PDF)
• Eijkhout, Victor. TeX by Topic

FAQ, Help and Community

• UK TeX Users' Group FAQ

References

• Donald E. Knuth. The TeXbook (Computers and Typesetting, Volume A). Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1984. ISBN 0-201-13448-9. The source code of the book in TeX (and a needed set of macros [1]) is available online on CTAN. It is provided only as an example and its use to prepare a book like The TeXbook is not allowed.
• Donald E. Knuth. TeX: The Program (Computers and Typesetting, Volume B). Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1986. ISBN 0-201-13437-3. The full source code of TeX; also available on CTAN at [2]. Being written using literate programming, it contains plenty of human-readable documentation.
• Donald E. Knuth. Digital Typography (CSLI lecture notes, no 78). Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1999. ISBN 1-57586-010-4.
• Donald E. Knuth and Michael F. Plass. Breaking Paragraphs Into Lines, Software — Practice and Experience 11 (1981), 1119–1184. Reprinted as chapter 3 of Digital Typography, p. 67–155.
• Leslie Lamport. LaTeX: A Document Preparation System. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 2nd. ed., 1994. ISBN 0-201-52983-1.
• Franklin Mark Liang. Word Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-put-er, PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, August 1983.
• M.D. Spivak. The Joy of TeX (2nd edition). American Mathematical Society, 1990. ISBN 0-8218-2997-1. Reference on AMS-TeX.
• Nelson H.F. Beebe. 25 Years of TeX and METAFONT: Looking Back and Looking Forward, TUGboat 25 (2004), 7–30.
• Michael Vulis, Modern TeX and Its Applications, CRC Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8493-4431-X

Endnotes

1. ↑ http://www.ctan.org/what_is_tex.html What are TeX, LaTeX and friends?