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Examples from The TeX showcase

The TeX Users Group (TUG) organization is a central place for all things TeX and LaTeX.

LaTeX is a typesetting language that runs circles around standard word processing programs because ... it is a true language. This means you can define new commands and do rather complex things. It is not really any harder to use than standard word processing programs such as Word or WordPerfect but it beats them hands down.

Because it is a vastly superior, permanent document preparation method, I write all my scientific papers, in LaTeX and then convert them automatically to html with latex2html, and to postscript and (more recently) to pdf with ghostscript. An example is the Information Theory Primer.

BiBTeX is a program associated with LaTeX that creates bibliographies. The format of the bibliographies is defined by a "bst" file, which is a programming language. The nice thing about BiBTeX is that you simply insert things like \cite{Shannon1948} into your text and the programs take over from there, automatically formatting and sorting the references.

Why LaTeX? A short video introducing LaTeX.

Online Demo! To see LaTeX in action, copy this demonstration file and paste it into the window provided by ScienceSoft. Click on 'Start LaTeX'. Some gears will turn and it will give you a typesetting of the text.

The Unofficial LaTeX Manual: https://latexref.xyz

Simple but complete demonstration of LaTeX and BibTeX by Tom Schneider. This requires that you have LaTeX set up on your computer.

griddemo.zip: Demonstration of precise page placement using PSTricks, by Tom Schneider. This requires that you have LaTeX set up on your computer. The griddemo: directory is available for inspection. In particular, you can see the resultant griddemo.pdf.

NEW LOCATION: This is the new location of the website. A permanent url that will always point to wherever this page goes is: https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/latex.html If you bookmark that (as opposed to where it currently points) you will always find the page.

Why Use LaTeX?

MS Word takes less effort for small documents but quickly overtakes LaTeX and soon becomes impossible to use for complex typesetting jobs that LaTeX can handle. Image by Marko Pinteric. Permission granted for image.

• LaTeX, BiBTex and a large number of supporting programs and data files are FREE!
• Why pay for excellent scientific typesetting?
• Why use a commercial proprietary format that almost guarantees that you will have trouble keeping your papers in the future and waste lots of disk space storing them?
• Word processors are stupid and inefficient by Allin Cottrell
• Ten Reasons Why TeX is Better than Word by Kent Lundberg
• It's easy to get started: LaTeX for Beginners by Tom Schneider
• LaTeX Advocacy
• Why would someone use LaTeX instead of Word in the first place? See the excellent graph!
• LaTeX: What Is It and Why Do We Need It? LaTeX is also a great resource for blind scientists!
• A brief video of the history of TeX/LaTeX. This video tells a little bit about how Donald Knuth invented TeX. The original article is: Donald Knuth - the Patron Saint of Yak Shaves". (What the heck is yak shaving??)
• Leslie Lamport built LaTeX on top of Tex.
  
  • Leslie Lamport's work page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/lamport/
  • Leslie Lamport's home page: http://www.lamport.org

When used in conjunction with the atchange program, LaTeX and BiBTeX become automated and act like a WYSIWYG-AIWYW (What You See Is What You Get - And It's What You Wanted). The program medlinebib will convert from Medline bibliography format to BiBTeX. Atchange can be used to automate the process. (New as of 1999 September 9)

LaTeX2e for class and package writers

From communication by email, they accept LaTeX

BiBTeX Style A yellow box indicates that the journal accepts LaTeX.	LaTeX Style	other files and comments
		Acta Biotheoretica (Springer)
amnatnat.bst (old files: amnat.bst, amnat.dbj )		The American Naturalist. According to their instructions they will accept LaTeX. The dbj was used to produce the bst. Thanks to Dr. Michael Kopp for this bst. as of 2007 Dec 23 2009 Mar 26: A revised version of the American Naturalist BibTeX BST style file is available, thanks to Ted Pavlic.
animcog.bst		Animal Cognition (Springer) Thanks to Joanna J. Bryson (Artificial models of natural Intelligence - AMONI) for this bst.
ajhg.bst	Use it in conjunction with the numberlabel.sty style file (for unbracketed references), the citesupernumber.sty file (for superscript citation numbers) and the citecollapse.sty file (for concise citation numbers as 1-4 instead of 1,2,3,4). NOTE: \usepackage{cite} instead.	American Journal of Human Genetics The first version was: ajhg1.01.bst by Stefan Böhringer . The University of Chicago Press, which publishes AJHG says: "Special Instructions for Mathematical and Other Non-ASCII Symbols. Authors of math-intensive articles are strongly urged to format their articles in LaTeX. This is particularly important if the articles contain numerous or complex equations." BRAVO!! The second version, by Amy L. Williams was based on the more recent AJHG_Information_for_Authors.pdf.
biochemistry.bst	the sty file is not available yet	Biochemistry Thanks to Sonja M. Schwarzl, sonja.schwarzl@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de, for this. She notes: One has to add \usepackage[round, comma, sort&compress]{natbib} into the preamble and \makeatletter \renewcommand\@biblabel[1]{#1.} \makeatother right after the \begin{document}. The only thing that is missing is that the numbers should be italics rather than normal text when citing something. I did not manage to change this. however, I hope that this is a minor detail and the journal editors can change it themselves. Theoretically these things could/should be done in a sty file ...
BiochemJ2008.bst	a sty file is not available yet	Biochemical Journal Thanks to Karl Blum RdSnp4@gmx.net for this. (new as of 2008 May 19):
Use the files from the journal! (Our old file: bioinformatics.bst)	Use the files from the journal! (Our old file: bioinformatics.sty)	Bioinformatics (formerly CABIOS). Thanks to Bruce Shapiro for the initial files. At PREPARING YOUR MANUSCRIPT Bioinformatics now provides LaTeX templates, but they are not compulsory!
Biomed Central		As of 2002 April 8, Biomed Central accepts DVI files for paper submissions.
biophysj.bst	Manuscript Templates	Biophysical Journal. These links are found from the Author Instructions. Thanks to Nuno Loureiro Ferreira nunolf@ci.uc.pt for the original links.
		Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, cjfas See also the publisher: National Research Council of Canada Thanks to Axel G.Rossberg for pointing this one out as of 2012 May 16.
cell.bst	cell.sty	Cell
	cite.sty	cite.sty is the most modern control of citations within text. It replaces citecollapse. It can be used in conjunction with citeparens.
	citecollapse.sty	replaced by cite 2009 Jul 09
	citeparens.sty	Sets parenthesis to be '()' instead of the default '[]' of cite.sty. This also can be done using the controls of cite.sty.
	citesupernumber.sty	Makes citations be superscript. Replaced by cite 2009 Jul 09
consbiol.bst		Conservation Biology as of 2011 Dec 07. Thanks to Marissa Baskett who notes: "I've created it to be used with natbib.sty (with \bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{}{} to get the formatting right)".
control.bst	control.sty	Basic format for building bst files.
cv.bst	cv.sty	CV bst and style by Tom Schneider Style by Jason Blevins
	doublespace.sty
ecology.bst	natbib.sty (part of LaTeX)	Ecology (journal published by the Ecological Society of America) Thanks to Henrique Miguel Pereira, PhD, http://www.stanford.edu/~hpereira, hpereira@stanford.edu, who provided it.
ecol_let.bst		Ecology Letters, thanks to Dr. Michael Kopp. The ecol_let_raw.dbj file is also available for regenerating the bst file.
	emboj.sty
evolution.bst		Evolution (volume index) now accepts LaTeX files. The evolution.dbj file is also available for regenerating the bst file. Thanks to Dr. Michael Kopp for pointing this out.
	floatfig.sty
		Gene, an Elsevier Journal Preparing Documents with LaTeX. See Elsevier publisher information.
genetics.bst		Genetics accepts LaTeX! Thanks to Stuart Macgregor who published a paper (Genetics, 171:1365-1376, 2005) there using LaTeX. He made the bst using makebst. Stuart has also kindly supplied two small template files that people can use for Genetics, genetics.tex and genetics.bib. There is no sty file. Dr. Michael Kopp modified the bst slightly to add a comma before the 'and' in the author list. Looking at the example above one can see that their rules are rather whacky: add a comma only if there are two authors! The other whacky rule of Genetics is that the first author is listed in the form "LAST, INITIALS" but all later authors are of the form "INITIALS LAST". 2008 May 12. Rutger Hermsen notes: 1. Jarle Tufto has a simple style file for Genetics to correct the appearance of the headers: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~jarlet/latex/ 2. The bibliography style "genetics.bst" correctly formats the bibliography for Genetics, but the citations in the text are not entirely correct. In the Genetics style, there is no interpunction between the author and the year, while by default natbib.sty inserts a comma. This can easily be fixed by putting the following line in the preamble of the article (after loading natbib): \bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{author-year}{}{,} 3. The name of the References Section is "Literature Cited" in Genetics; before the \bibliography statement one should therefore add the following line: \renewcommand\refname{Literature Cited} Ideally, the template by Stuart Macgregor could be adjusted to include these points. This amounts to replacing the line \usepackage[authoryear]{natbib} in that file by: \usepackage{natbib} \bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{author-year}{}{,} \usepackage{genetics} and inserting \renewcommand\refname{Literature Cited} directly after \bibliographystyle{genetics} Genetics style by Eric C. Anderson.
	html.sty	This style file allows LaTeX to be converted to html by latex2html. You can find these files at CTAN, search for 'latex2html'. latex2html at CTAN. To get just the html.sty file, wget http://mirrors.ctan.org/support/latex2html/latex2html-2012.tgz gunzip latex2html-2012.tgz tar xvf latex2html-2012.tar cd latex2html-2012/ ls */html.sty This gives: texinputs/html.sty
gastroent.bst	gastroent.sty	Gastroenterology Requires natbib.sty in the document. Written by Herbert Plass, herbert.plass@meduniwien.ac.at, Vienna, Austria.
Genome Biology: Use BioMed Central's TeX template to prepare your manuscript for submission	Use BioMed Central's TeX template to prepare your manuscript for submission	Genome Biology accepts TeX and LaTeX! Instructions for Authors say: Use BioMed Central's TeX template to prepare your manuscript for submission Thanks to Ramón Díaz-Uriarte for his version, GenomeBiology.bst (This is a link to Ramón Díaz-Uriarte's file.) (new as of 2005 Sep 5):
genres.bst	genres.sty	Genome Research. The style uses package natbib to allow control over references. TO DO CITATIONS: \citep*{Petitjean.Olivier2007,Soussi2000,Soussi.Ishioka2005}. gives (Petitjean, 2007; ...); \citet{el-Deiry.Vogelstein1992} gives el-Deiry (1992). For additional example documentation, see the Reference sheet for natbib usage.
gcb.bst	natbib.sty	Global Change Biology as of 2008 Dec 18. Thanks to Marissa Baskett who notes: "to be used with natbib.sty".
heredity.bst		Heredity as of 2008 Jul 22. Thanks to Thibaut Jombart (or this page) who notes: "It requires the natbib package. ... To comply with the requirement of the journal, one should also use abbreviations for journal titles, but I do not think this is up to the bibtex style (I did it using jabref)."
humanmutation.bst	humanmutation.sty	Human Mutation
		IUCR (International Union of Crystallography) journals such as Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography
download from IEEE	download from IEEE	IEEE ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). IEEEtran.cls is the official IEEE LaTeX class for authors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions journals and conferences. Support sites: http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/ http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/ and http://www.ieee.org/.
See Elsevier LaTeX instructions	See Elsevier LaTeX instructions	iScience
jbact.bst	jbact.sty	Journal of Bacteriology
jeb.bst, jeb.dbj		Journal of Evolutionary Biology. They accept LaTeX. The dbj was used to produce the bst. Thanks to Dr. Michael Kopp for this bst.
jxb.bst		Journal of Experimental Biology officially doesn't accept LaTeX submissions, but at least this gives the right bibliography formatting for anyone first creating their manuscript in LaTeX and then converting it to rft or Word. It needs to be used with natbib.sty (\usepackage{natbib}). Thanks to Marissa Baskett. as of 2011 Apr 11
Journal of Mathematical Biology		"Springer Verlag has developed TeX and LaTeX macro packages for different journals." Apparently the above contains outdated files, but more recent ones can be found at their ftp site (Thanks to Michel Durinx for pointing this out!) HOWEVER those are (still) dated 2004. In 2007 Ted Pavlic wrote to me "I've been trying to fix and modernize some of the Springer LaTeX support files for the Journal of Mathematical Biology (JMB). I've come up with these..." Preamble for Journal of Mathematical Biology and LaTeX Support :: Fixes and Suggestions for Springer's Journal of Mathematical Biology"
JMB: on the page "The elsarticle LaTeX document class" The elsarticle LaTeX document class see the section on Bibliographic styles.	elsart.cls (standard file), ftp/elsartUSA.cls (my modification for USA)	Journal of Molecular Biology NEW FORMAT CHANGE!! (as of 2003 Feb 14) JMB is now under Elsevier, and they accept LaTeX! Preparing Documents with LaTeX See Elsevier publisher information.
Journal of Vision		Journal of Vision Thanks to Tobias Elze (or here) for pointing this out!
jss.bst. See notes	jss.sty. See notes	Journal of Statistical Software provide their own LaTeX Style Files! Please obtain the files from them so you get the latest version.
jsupercomp.bst	jsupercomp.sty
jtb.bst	jtb.sty	Journal of Theoretical Biology Note: JMB changed their reference format so JTB is now completely separated. As part of Elsevier, Journal of Theoretical Biology now accepts LaTeX! Elsevier LaTeX file guidelines 2008 Jul 30: See Elsevier publisher information.
For Springer medical, life sciences, chemistry, geology, engineering and computer science publications: spbasic.bst (also for Springer mathematics, computer science, and physical sciences journals publications: spmpsci.bst )		Marine Biology, a Springer Journal, takes LaTeX. as of 2009 July 20. Thanks to Evan Howell for the tip. The LaTeX macro package is a zip file. Download it and change its name to anything.zip and then unzip it. Deep down under several directories you will find LaTeX materials. This is very inconvenient.
Medical Physics		Medical Physics Thanks to Tobias Elze (or here) for pointing this out!
methenz.bst		Methods in Enzymology
molcellbiol.bst	molcellbiol.sty
molecularEcology.bst original source: http://yannick.poulet.org/miscStuff/molecularEcology.bst		Molecular Ecology written by Yannick Wurm. His paper using this bst/style was published.
		Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, JABES, by Eric C. Anderson.
		Journal of the American Statistical Association, JASA, by Eric C. Anderson.
nci.bst	nci.sty and ulem.doc (part of LaTeX2e, call in preamble as \usepackage[normalem]{ulem})	application forms in the NCI RedBook. There are two test files, nci.bib, which is a BiBTex bibliography, and nci.tex, which is a LaTeX file to test the bibliography. New as of 2000 Nov 28
nih	nih.sty (link to another web site)	Using LaTeX for NIH Grant Applications by Bruce Donald. New as of 2004 March 15, corrected 2008 Nov 15. See also Writing NIH Grant Application in LaTeX by J. Hrabe
nar.bst	The old style file is nar.sty DEPRECATED The newer style file is: narfront.cls DEPRECATED These are now REPLACED by the files from NAR. The mininmum files needed are: NAR-natbib.sty NAR.cls crop.sty You will also need this just before the last paragraph of the first page: NAR-insert.tex You can use the nartest Unix script to test the package.	Nucleic Acids Research instructions to authors 2000 Sep 13: nar.bst includes titles as specified by NAR. 2001 Jun 15: now periods after titles!! 2003 May 28: front mechanism for authors using narfront.cls! 2004 June 7: LaTeX is an accepted format! 2004 Dec 13: revision to nar.sty to make nicer sections/subsections. 2005 Feb 5: narfront.cls is functional. A complete working example is narsample.tar.Z. Note: the files narfront.cls and nar.sty have not been fully merged. 2008 Jan 7: Manuscript central now takes zip files. This means one can download the LaTeX files together. 2008 May 22: For fonts we recently used: \usepackage{pslatex} % Times New Roman Font 2009 Jun 23: NEW Preparing and Submitting Your Manuscript! NAR LaTeX files from Oxford Journals (zip file) The files are not working quite yet ... 2010 Mar 08: Preparing and Submitting Your Manuscript now links to nar-latex2010.zip which WORKS! 2012 Jul 01: Long-Sheng Kuo, a postdoc at National Taiwan University, discovered that the L of his name was missing from the author list. Vladimir Lomov found that the problem was in the NAR.cls and he provided a solution (as recorded in the tug texhax mail archives). Thanks also to Philip Taylor and Michael Doob for confirming it. The new NAR.cls version number is 2012/07/01 v1.5.
namedplus.bst	namedplus.sty	Journal of Neuroscience and other similar (apalike, but different) styles. They use parens around citations and allow four types of citation macros: \cite, \citeauthor, \citeyear, \citenoparens, and \citetext \citenoparens gives you the standard Darwin, 1873 with no parentheses so you can do stuff like (see \citenoparens{darwin1873}). \citetext gives you Darwin (1873). The output comes out as a full list of authors (year) and then the standard rest of the stuff. I've used it for Journal of Neuroscience, Hippocampus, and other similar journals. (new as of 2000 April 12).
nature.bst naturesupp.bst	numberlabel.sty DEPRECATED (formerly this was nature.sty) citesupernumber.sty nature.cls naturefem.sty	Nature. use in conjunction with citesupernumber.sty. (new as of 2000 Dec 12): naturefem.sty provides a function that converts from LaTeX footnote numbers to the ones demanded by Nature. 2004 April 5: Please see the UPDATED VERSIONS AT CTAN. I have not had a chance to inspect these but they are probably more advanced than the ones on this web site. 2011 Jun 09: Rebecca Schulman created naturesupp.bst for Nature supplementary materials. She writes (slightly edited): Recently I needed to create a style file for nature's supplementary materials, which has the request that the citation numbers begin after your main paper's citations. This is just a simple modification of your nature.bst file. There are probably better ways to do this, but in case this file is useful to anyone else, I'm sending it to you for posting. There is one important note -- you have to manually adjust the number of citations you used in the maintext on line by changing the initial value of num.citations (it is currently set to 29). If there is a way to make this easier let me know. 2011 Nov 30: Nature now accepts TeX! Guidelines to preparing and submitting a manuscript Manuscript formatting guide We are able to accept TeX, but it must convert correctly to a PDF before it can be accepted (as we convert TeX to Word, and we require a PDF for reference during the conversion). Submissions: Initial and revised submissions 3. Manuscript formats Acceptable formats for the manuscript are ... TeX ... 2012 Jul 03: nature.cls is my modification of Peter Czoschke's nature.cls.
		Nature Nanotechnology, How to submit "Authors submitting LaTeX files may use any of the standard class files such as article.cls, revtex.cls or amsart.cls."
	noReferences.sty	remove the word "References" from your bibliography. see: How to change LaTeX's ``fixed names''
	nihgrant.sty	see also: nih.template.txt . (If that has gone away , you can use my mirror.)
	nrotate.sty
openmind.bst	openmind.sty	files for Open Mind Journals. instructions for authors
Philosophical Transactions series A. rspublicnat.bst (new as of 2009 July 09)	version at the Royal Society of rspublic.cls (not required and may still contain a serious bug!) 2009 Jul 09 A corrected version is at: rspublic.cls.	The Philosophical Transactions series A of the Royal Society (Phil. Trans. A) The Instructions to Authors used to say "The Society encourages authors to use LaTeX for the preparation of all papers submitted for publication, especially those with a large amount of mathematics." The section is now called Preparing your article and it has instructions for LaTeX files. 2009 July 09: Ted Pavlic (ted at tedpavlic.com) has created a bst for this journal, as described in his blog. Ted also describes his correction of the cls.
PLoS-Biology.bst (PLoS-Biology.bst is a link to Ramón Díaz-Uriarte's original file.)	use with the natbib package, with \usepackage[authoryear, round, sort]{natbib} in the preamble.	PLoS: Public Library of Science accepts TeX and LaTeX! See also PLoS Biology Guidelines for Authors. Thanks to Ramón Díaz-Uriarte for this one! (new as of 2005 Sep 5) 2005 Oct 20: Thomas Grotkjaer writes: "Unfortunately PLoS has recently changed the citation style and now they are using a sort of Nature style with numbering. However, the actual reference list has not changed, i.e. authors, journal names are written in the same way." 2007 Jul 30: apparently they changed their policy. Text files can be submitted for review in the following formats: DOC, RTF or PDF. Any articles that have been prepared in LaTeX will be accepted for review, but only in PDF format. After acceptance, only text files (RTF or DOC) of the revised manuscript and tables can be accepted for use in the pre-production and copyediting processes." They let you give them a PDF generated by LaTeX for review, but only accept stupid formats later. The solution is to give them an ugly RTF using latex2rtf (see below). 2009 Mar 23: LaTeX submissions now accepted at PLoS ONE! (Thanks to Tobias Elze, tobias-elze@tobias-elze.de, for pointing this out!)
proteins.bst	proteins.sty	also uses citesupernumber.sty
pnas.bst	pnastwo.cls Source: Submitting to PNAS Using LaTeX. Notes: As of 2009 Jun 26 pnastwo.cls is the same as PNASTWO.CLS in the PNAS package. However, on unix systems the name PNASTWO.CLS fails because CLS is distinct from the type cls expected by LaTeX. I was not able to use the fonts (editing the font controls was difficult and endless) and recommend ignoring those files. Comment out the line "\usepackage{pnastwoF}" in the template. 2009 Jun 30: In this style equations have brackets [] but references do too. In a recent paper references use parenthesis. Allison Ross of the National Academy will be updating the style file. In the meantime you can use: \usepackage{citeparens} to set references to parenthesis. 2009 Jul 09: In this style citations are supposed to be collapsed, see for example this paper, where in the first paragraph one finds "(4--6)" instead of "(4, 5, 6)". To do this include: \usepackage{cite} \renewcommand\citeleft{(} \renewcommand\citeright{)} This information comes from the cite.sty file itself. Of course if you use cite, you don't need citeparens, but citeparens doesn't hurt. You can also call citeparens second to fix the parenthesis: \usepackage{cite} \usepackage{citeparens} This final form is all you need. Alternatively use: \usepackage[comma,sort&compress]{natbib}	Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Information for Authors. Submitting to PNAS Using LaTeX. Note: PNAS will not accept a raw reference database! Instead of supplying a .bib file, one must insert the resulting .bbl into the paper. I have written a Unix tcsh script to do this automatically: replacebib. Note: Although pnas.bst sets emphasis and the instructions for authors show italics, the pnastwo.cls removes the italics somehow (or it is a problem with fonts). Note: I have also written a Unix script that extracts a subset of a BiBTeX database: mksubbib. This will be useful if PNAS accepts a .bib file instead of forcing authors to insert the .bbl file into the .tex file. It probably needs to be genralized; ask me if you need that. Note: 2011 Aug 10: Kevin Higgins notes: "Getting the fonts to work for PNAS worked for me on a Ubuntu Lucid installation. In the file pnastwof.sty I simply commented-out the Dvipsone Names and uncommented the Karl Berry Names. Others on the web also report that this works." 2009 Jun 26: Following are Historical and Hysterical notes you can probably ignore. The pnas.bst given here was formerly called pnas-bolker.bst from Ben Bolker (2008 Jan 30). I have now tested it and found it matches the PNAS format better since it has full titles and fused initials on authors. A complete zipped directory for testing the bst file: pnas.zip.
psfg.bst (New as of 2002 September 1) (The old 1999 version, probably no longer useful, is still available as protsci.bst)	protsci.sty (the same as jmb.sty for now)	Protein Science instructions. I have put their journal example into a tiny bibliography, protsci.bib
Science.bst (Science.bst is my copy; use only if the Science link is down)	scicite.sty (scicite.sty is my copy; use only if the Science link is down)	Instructions at Science: Preparing Your Text and Tables -- Using LaTeX WOW!! 2002 May 6: Thanks to Edoardo ''Dado'' Marcora",Edoardo.Marcora@colorado.edu, for pointing out that Science now supports LaTeX!
	section.sty
spec.bst	spec.sty
vancouver.bst		vancouver is a "bibliographic style file (for LaTeX/BibTeX) ... to meet the ``Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals'' as published in N Engl J Med 1997;336:309-315. (also known as the Vancouver style) This specification may be found on the web page of the International Committe of Medical Journal Editors: http://www.icmje.org"

How to upload files (reminder to Tom): ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/README.uploads

Publishers who use TeX/LaTeX

House	Confirmed: has author instructions or other pages that mention TeX/LaTeX	Source
aaai www.aaai.org	author instructions	#11
AAAS/science www.sciencemag.org	author instructions	#11
American Chemical Society Publications	Preparing and Submitting Manuscripts Using TeX/LaTeX	#15
Addison-Wesley They published LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, 2/E by Leslie Lamport, but I can't locate LaTeX in their instructions!	must exist but cannot locate!	#1
algebra universalis	author instructions	#15
American Institute of Physics www.aip.org	author instructions	#3, #11
American Mathematical Society	author instructions	#3,#6
American Meteorological Society www.ametsoc.org	author instructions	#11
American Physical Society authors.aps.org	author instructions	#3,#11
ATLIS	Customize the CIA World Factbook from ATLIS TeX Sample Pages from ATLIS	#12
Beech Stave Press	in preparation	#10
Birkhäuser	FAQs	#2
Cambridge University Press	author instructions	#2,#3
Cambridge University Press authornet.cambridge.org	author instructions	#11
CRC	author instructions page 4	#9
Documenta Mathematica www.math.uiuc.edu	author instructions	#11
Docscape	TeX text layout system	TexHax 2009-July
Elsevier www.elsevier.com	2008 Jul 02: Preparing Documents with LaTeX "New document class for typeset journal articles, elsarticle.cls, now available for user testing" August 2008	#1, #11
Engine House Books as of 2009 Jul 04	They "don't say that they use TeX on their website, but they in fact use plain TeX for everything, and say so in the colophons that are in all their books." --personal communication from D. R. Evans	#14
Fondo de Cultura Económica		#4
Informs joc.pubs.informs.org	author instructions	#11
Institut Mittag-Leffler (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) www.arkivformatematik.org	author instructions	#11
IOP (institute of physics) authors.iop.org	author instructions	#11
John Benjamins Publishing Company	Guidelines for Contributors for the journal Interaction Studies	#13
London Mathematical Society Journals (see paragraph beginning "before filling in the form) www.lms.ac.uk	author instructions	#2,#11
London Mathematical Society books www.lms.ac.uk	author instructions	#2,#11
Louisiana State University Press	see footnote	#8
Mathematical Association of America www.maa.org	author instructions	#11
National Research Council of Canada	The NRC has its own style files. See also the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, cjfas	as of 2012 May 16.
Oxford Journals	author instructions "TeX and LaTeX files are ... acceptable."	#1
Oxford University Press www.oup.co.uk	2012 Apr 26. The previous link that indicated support for TeX/LaTeX is broken. At Author Resources they have A Handbook for Authors says "Contact your Acquisitions Editor if you are using software other than Microsoft Word." It's not clear that they support TeX/LaTeX anymore.	#11
Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu	author instructions	#11
Publications de l'Institut Math\'ematique (Beograd) www.emis.de	author instructions	#11
SAS Institute	Author with SAS	TexHax 2009-July
SIAM	author instructions	#7
SIAM journals www.siam.org	author instructions	#11
SIAM books www.siam.org	author instructions	#11
Springer math www.springer.com	author instructions	#2,#3,#11
Springer physics www.springer.com	author instructions	#2,#3,#11
Thomson Delmar Learning	not mentioned in author guide	#1
UIT Cambridge as of 2009 Jul 04	http://uit.co.uk/content/mechanics-producing-your-book-typesetting-system used to say "Our typesetting system of choice is LaTeX" but the link is broken now. However Tools for producing your book discusses using LaTeX tools. Also, they publish several books on typesetting	#14
Unipress (Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences) www.unipress.waw.pl	author instructions	#11
University of California Press as of 2009 Jul 04	RESOURCES FOR PUBLISHING PARTNERS (PDF) (google)	TexHax 2006, 2009
Wiley www.wiley.com	author instructions for books Author guidelines for books & journals	#1,#11
William Andrew Publishing	Accept LaTeX files but author guidelines do not mention TeX/LaTeX. example	#2
World Scientific	author instructions	#3
WordTech	see footnote	#8

This table comes from a discussion on the group

Other Publiser Lists:

Link	Notes	Source
http://www.juergenfenn.de/tex/verlage/verlage.html	(La)TeX-freundliche Verlage in Deutschland "A list of German publishing houses that LaTeX authors have reported to accept either LaTeX source or a ready PDF/PS output from LaTeX source was compiled by Henrik Grotjahn a while ago. He donated it to my website when he re-organised his own."	Juergen Fenn juergen.fenn at GMX.DE
http://www-lsi.upc.es/~valiente/journals.html	Journals accepting Manuscripts written using LaTeX Gabriel Valiente's Publisher List	Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
http://tug.org/interest.html#publishers	Publisher information at tug.org	Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
beeton/	Barbara Beeton's List of TeX/LaTeX Publishers	Barbara Beeton, personal communication
"by going to the princeton press site http://press.princeton.edu/ and searching for "instructions for authors", an amazing selection of possibilities is found."	Search Princeton University Press via Google for 'instructions for authors'	Barbara Beeton, personal communication

1. William Adams will.adams at frycomm.com senior graphic designer, Fry Communications, "Places I'm aware of", 2007 June 12
2. William Adams will.adams at frycomm.com senior graphic designer, Fry Communications, "Places that I've worked with", 2007 June 12
3. Philip G. Ratcliffe philip.ratcliffe at uninsubria.it 2007 June 13
4. Axel E. Retif axretif at igo.com.mx 2007 June 12
5. (now unused)
6. Stephen Moye stephenmoye at mac.com, Publications Technical Support, American Mathematical Society 2007 June 13
7. William Adams will.adams at frycomm.com, 2007 June 13
8. John Burt burt at brandeis.edu, 2007 June 13. Neither LSU nor WordTech support TeX, but both published his books from using PDF made using LaTeX.
9. Morten Høgholm "Note: Taylor and Francis has style files available for FrameMaker, InDesign, and LaTEX (version 2e). Please consult your Project Coordinator or Acquiring Editor if you are interested in obtaining these. No Microsoft products or WordPerfect versions may be used to prepare author produced books." 2007 June 14
10. Personal communication from Steve Peter 2007 June 13
11. Personal communication from Barbara Beeton 2007 June 14, personal communication from Joanna Bryson 2012 Aug 01
12. William Adams will.adams at frycomm.com, 2008 July 03
13. Joanna Bryson, 2008 July 09
14. See: [texhax] Examples of books written using LaTeX/TeX and related tools and the posting that alerted me. 2009 July 04
15. Personal communication from Barbara Beeton (bnb@ams.org) 2009 Jul 07, 2012 Apr 19

TeX and LaTeX Resources

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• Applications and Examples
  • The TeX showcase contains spectacular examples of what one can do with this typesetting system!
         
    (Note: The diagrams require diagmac.sty, but it could also be done with the powerful programs PSTricks or pgf/TikZ.)
  • Real World Applications of TeX
  • Visual LaTeX FAQ by Scott Pakin SHOWS you examples. It is a PDF with pointers to the UK TeX FAQ. At CTAN: A Visual LaTeX FAQ.
  • LaTeX tools for life scientists (BioTeXniques?) by Kumar M Senthil. This practical article shows how to make a number of useful figures for molecular biologists.
  • Customize the CIA World Factbook from ATLIS
  • TeX Sample Pages from ATLIS. Collection of sample .pdfs which were typeset using TeX
  • Designing Sound - entirely written in LaTeX. (See texhax posting)
• Getting Started
  • LaTeX for Beginners by Tom Schneider, is a very short introduction to the practicalities of using LaTeX.
  • Learn LaTeX
  • What are TeX, LaTeX, and friends?
  • Getting Started with TeX, LaTeX, and Friends - This is the official starting point at TUG, the TeX User Group
  • Formatting information: A beginner's introduction to typesetting with LaTeX by Peter Flynn (PDF, source)
  • A Gentle Introduction to TEX, A Manual for Self-study by Michael Doob
  • Tex FAQ The TeX Frequently Asked Question List
  • latexrefman: LaTeX Reference Manual as of 2011 Apr 11.

  • LaTeX Previewers

    • Troy Henderson's LaTeX Previewer. Try a little LaTeX with this on-line server! For example, put this into the server:

       $\frac{\sqrt{\pi^2}}{\Delta G}$ 

      Note: errors are ignored and not reported.
    • Jonathan Fine's LaTeX Previewer. source code.
  • The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e by Tobias Oetiker
  • Guide to LaTeX (4th Edition) (Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting) by Helmut Kopka, Patrick W. Daly. For Beginners and Advanced Users. Essential!!
  • Some TeX-related Publications by the American Mathematical Society
  • Online tutorials on LATEX at The Indian TEX Users Group (TUGIndia)
    • Novice level tutorial for LaTeX. Download from this link.
  • LaTeX: A document preparation system
  • TeX-Collection 2003, The TeX Live Guide This is the documentation that comes with the TeX CDs. "a TeX and LaTeX distribution for Linux and other Unix flavors, Mac OS X, and (32-bit) Windows systems."
  • (La)TeX Tutorials
  • Guide to using LaTeX from University of British Columbia
  • Getting Started with LaTeX By David R. Wilkins
  • A LaTeX Fledgling Struggles to Take Flight By Peter L. Flom (PracT_EX 2005, Number 2)
  • Electronic Texts on TeX by William Adams. This is a list of books on typesetting.
  • What is TeX?, David Walden, compiler, PracTeX, 2005, Number 3
  • Suggested starting route by Martin Schröder: (http://www.oneiros.de)
    • Start here: LaTeX2e for authors - a User Guide (PDF from the LaTeX project)
    • Continue with: UK List of TeX Frequently Asked Questions
    • Continue with: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
  • What I Wish I Had...When I Was A Lad Using LaTeX resources by Jim Hefferon
  • TeX Tutorials by John Culleton
  • TeX for the Impatient
  • A Gentle Introduction to TeX
  • TeX by Topic (more advanced)
  • More Math Into LaTeX (4th edition) George Grätzer, Springer, 2007. "this is essentially the user manual for the ams document classes and amsmath;" Barbara Beeton
  • Wikipedia entries:
    • TeX
    • LaTeX
    • Help:Displaying a formula - check this list to find the symbol you need!
    • Detexify² - LaTeX symbol classifier Draw the symbol you want and it will give you guesses as to the LaTeX definition!
    Note: The Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List is the official list but you have to download > 4 MBytes!
  • LaTeX Tutorials
    • Getting to grips with LaTeX by Andy Roberts
    • LaTeX Related Information by Nicola L. C. Talbot
    • Online tutorials on LaTeX at TUG
    • LaTeX Demo! a video by TheAndyreagan on Oct 17, 2011.

    • symbol list

      To get a complete list of symbols ON YOUR COMPUTER in LaTeX type this on the command line:

          texdoc --list symbol
       
      this will give you:
       
        8 .../texlive/2014/texmf-dist/doc/latex/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf
        9 .../texlive/2014/texmf-dist/doc/latex/comprehensive/symbols-letter.pdf
       
      among 32 other files.  Despite that texdoc returns many results and
      it's difficult to determine which of them is what you're looking for,
      you can at least be sure that the stuff is quite up-to-date and
      describes what is in the current TL distribution.
          

      This information comes from a texhax posting by Reinhard Kotucha.
      Installing TeX/LaTeX on your computer
      

      • Getting Started with TeX, LaTeX, and friends at TUG the Tex Users Group
      • The TeX System lists the basic files of the system.
      • How can I install Latex on my ubuntu notebook?
        sudo apt-get install texlive
        
      Important Resources

      • Reference documents Includes the LaTeX reference manual.
      • TeX Resources on the Web
      • CTAN: Comprehensive TeX Archive Network, "providing the most complete, up-to-date TeX-related software possible". Go to CTAN to get many more packages and styles!!
        • The TeX Catalogue List of packages
        • Contributing a file to the archives
      • The TeX Catalogue Online - THE place to find things!
        • Topic Index
        • How to locate documentation (on Unix systems):

      % texdoc -s crop /sw/share/texmf/doc/help/Catalogue/entries/crop.html /sw/share/texmf/doc/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfcrop.html /sw/share/texmf/doc/latex/styles/crop.dvi

      (This package will put crop marks on your paper.)
      You can also these in The TeX Catalogue Online.
  • TeX Users Group, www.tug.org: The source for all things LaTeX and Tex. (Apparently tug.org is the same thing)
  • TeX on Mac OS X
  • Discussion Groups:
    • TexHax a mailing list for questions and answers.
    • Newsgroup: comp.text.tex
    • TeX on Mac OS X lists the available mailing lists at: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/wiki/index.php/Mailing_lists
    • TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange http://tex.stackexchange.com/ "This is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for users of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems. It's 100% free, no registration required."
  • Hypertext Help with LaTeX see especially
    Table of Contents Links to help by subject, LaTeX command, or environment.
  • FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions
    • TeX Frequently Asked Questions on the Web, for example to use blackboard bold font:

           \documentclass{minimal}
           \usepackage{amsfonts}
           \begin{document}
           $\Bbb{THIS}$ IS A TEST
           \end{document}
           

    • LaTeX Frequently Asked Questions at The Department of Physics and Measurement Technology, Biology
    • LaTeX Frequently Asked Questions at MIT
  • The PracTeX Journal "The PracTeX Journal is dedicated to the exchange of practical experience and instruction of the use of TeX and other TeX-related or TeX-derived systems."
  • LaTeX Tips & Tricks - an impressive list!
  • TeX by Topic is a book by Victor Eijkhout: "A beautifully written, concise and comprehensive discussion of TeX as a programming language"
  • Wikipedia has two entries:
    • TeX
    • LaTeX
  • FRUSTRATED? Can't control something? Try Jakob's LaTeX tricks!
  • How to locate LaTeX resource pages: Do google searches for things like 'latex itemize itemsep'. For example, that led me to Jakob's LaTeX tricks, listed above.
  • "The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List is an organized list of 3300 symbols commonly available to LaTeX users." Just astounding!
    • The Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List (web page)
      
    • The Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List (PDF)
      
  • 
    

    FONTS

    
    
    • The LaTeX Font Catalogue
    • TeX support for FontSite 500 "Note that the FontSite 500 CD has been discontinued."
  • 
    

    PUBLICATIONS

    
    There are two journals published by TUG about Tex/LaTeX:
    • TUGboat
    • PracTeX
    Some local tex user groups also have a journal/magazine.
    • NTG publishes MAPS in Dutch.
    • UK-TUG publishes baskerville in English.
    • GUTenberg used to publish Cahiers in French.
    • Dante publishes DTK in German.
    • GTF publishes Eutypon in Greek.
    Thanks to Aditya Mahajan for this list (in a posting in Texhax).
  • 
    

    CONFERENCES

    
    
    • TUG 2007: Practicing T_EX
    
    
  • Best of the Web lists a few nice LaTeX links.
  • Ki-Joo's LaTeX Documents gives some really cool resources. The original link: "http://www.geocities.com/kijoo2000/" died by 2011 sep 29. Possibly it's now http://www.xmarks.com/site/www.ce.cmu.edu/~kijoo/thesis.html
  • A comprehensive review of mathematics in (La)TeX. (Just grab the pdf unless you want to amuse yourself or view the source of the document.)
  • Samples from Math into LaTeX, 4th Edition.
• Tools
  • Editing/LaTeX environments
    • Texmaker Free cross-platform LaTeX editor
    • Vim-LaTeX "Vim is undoubtedly one of the best editors ever made. LaTeX is an extremely powerful, intelligent typesetter. Vim-LaTeX aims at bringing together the best of both these worlds."
    • Kile - an integrated LaTeX environment
    • AUCTeX
    • AUCTeX preview-latex
    • RefTeX - References, labels, citations
    • latexmk - an automation script: "a perl script for running LaTeX the correct number of times to resolve cross references, etc; it also runs auxiliary programs (bibtex, makeindex if necessary, and dvips and/or a previewer as requested)."
    • atchange by Tom Schneider (your's truely) - an automation method.
    • Controlling PDFs and Editor-Previewer Synchronization Change and show PDF with TeX "immediately," and link I/O, by Uwe Lueck, is a summary page on methods. 2010 Apr 29.
    • TeXcount: LaTeX word count, with html output and a nice web interface. It's easy to call from the command line:

      texcount -html -v texfile.tex > details.html

      Unlike untex, which just removes non-words, TeXcount parses the file and the html shows exactly what was counted.
      • google: latex word count
    • Collaborative LaTeX Editor With Preview In Your Web Browser
      • SlashDot story: LaTeX editor in the cloud: texhax news
      • Collaborative LaTeX Editor With Preview In Your Web Browser: Slashdot
      • https://www.sharelatex.com/
      • https://www.writelatex.com/
    • Wordpress supports LaTeX
  • Differences between documents The script latexdiff from CTAN:

    Given 2 latex source files, it produces a 3rd latex file with additions/deletions highlighted in color.
    -- Dimitri Antoniou
    Department of Biophysics
    Albert Einstein College of Medicine

    • google: latexdiff
    • CTAN Package information
    • latexdiff: Determine and mark up significant differences between latex files Download files
    • latexdiff only works with the main file. To use \include or \input:
      • Discussion at Texhax
      • google: latex flatten
      • tex.stackexchange discussion points out flatex: (flatten latex) which allows included files to be latexdiffed.
      • latexexpand: expand latex allows included files to be latexdiffed
  • TeX on the Mac
    • MacOS X TeX/LaTeX Web Site
    • TeX on Mac OS X
    • TeXshop - http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html
    • XeTeX - http://scripts.sil.org/xetex Gerben Wierda's i-installer (link to it from the above page)
    • Will Robertson's Fontspec - http://www.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/~will/tex/
  • Slides for presentations using LaTeX!
    • Powerdot produces a PDF slides show - very clean! This is a truely wonderful package!!!
      • CTAN package
      • mailing list
      • mailing list archive
      • To Make Handouts
        Use:

              mode=print
              

        in the class options (not handout mode!) and the program

              psnup
              

        to combine the pages as one would like. Documentation for psnup.
      • media9 allows one to embed movies into a pdf. (Movie15 is now obsolete.)
      • Accentuate a PDF presentation program. According to a discussion on the PowerDot discussion group, hyperlinks don't work. If you know the resolution of this issue, please tell me so I can update this page.
      • Powerdot Style Gallery by Kulkarni Shantanu "Style gallery is a one stop showcase of all the styles and palettes available in powerdot. This makes it easy to choose required style and palette."
      • powerdot-zen.sty: Tom Schneider's simplified and clean Powerdot style. It only has a strip across the bottom and top.
      • Here's how to use the \rput function of PStricks with powerdot: using \rput with powerdot
      • Hendri Adriaens' page
    • Producing beautiful slides with LaTeX: An introduction to the HA-prosper package. Here are things you will need:
      • HA-prosper package
      • Prosper at CTAN
      • prosper.cls
      • PPRdefault.sty
      • xkeyval.sty
      HA-Prosper is being replaced by Powerdot, see above!
    • Beamer. I have not tried this package.
      • beamer at tug
      • Chris Bourke's beamer links. He says "Beamer is a LaTeX class with which you can create beautiful PDF slides with more functionality than even Power Point!" Note his examples.
      • Using beamer.cls, Mostly for Transparencies An Intentionally Incomplete Guidef (pdf) from Peter Smith's LaTeX for Logicians.
    • texpower. I have not tried this package, but the examples are spectacular. It is probably not compatable with PowerDot, see this discussion
    • http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html, Screen Presentation Tools: Tools for Creating Screen or Online Presentations
    • 2006 Apr 19. NOTE: Adobe Reader will now automatically rotate pages. This can wreck a PDF based slide show. To control page rotation, use:

      ps2pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/None file.ps

      or

      ps2pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/All file.ps

      Also, upgrade ghostscript to version 8.14. Determine the version using:

      gs --version

  • Posters How to make posters as for scientific meetings using LaTeX
    • Creating posters with LaTeX - TeX Frequently Asked Questions
    • Using LaTeX to produce conference posters - Norman Gray, Graeme Stewart

          \documentclass[draft]{a0poster}
          

    • Preparing conference posters in LaTeX - By awf and capes
    • LaTeX Poster Macros, Examples, and Accessories - Brian C. Wolven
      This method gave us excellent results!
    • Posters with LaTeX - Hugh C Pumphrey
    • "Try a search under google.com with "latex poster a0" and you should get at least a 100 pages showing howto." - Leonardo Giantini Trabuco
    • The LaTeX beamerposter package
    • LaTeX Poster Template by Brian Amberg (Thanks to B. J. Moehlmann for the tip)
    2004 Jan 29: Thanks to Leonardo Giantini for asking and Steve Peter for answering this on the texhax mailinglist.
  • Flow frames Peter Davis asked:

    Does anyone know of a way to specify a list of blocks, so that text would automatically overflow from one block to the next? This would require specifying a height as well as a width for the blocks.

    and William Adams answered: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram/
  • Writing a Book
    • Memoir Class: Typeset fiction, non-fiction and mathematical books.
    • Xindy: Flexible Indexing System
  • Mathematics
    • google: latex math
    • LaTeX Math Symbols
    • MimeTeX: convert LaTeX math typesetting directly to gif. If you have TeXLive or MikTeX then you can use dvipng instead.
    • voss-mathmode: A comprehensive review of mathematics in (La)TeX.
    • Science and Math Equations - LaTeX examples by Maria Chernenko, Tallin State University, Estonia. (Note their restrictive terms of service: you cannot publish works using these equations.)
    • jsMath: A Method of Including Mathematics in Web Pages
    • Suggestions on how not to mishandle mathematical formulæ (You need to be a member of the Tex User Group to read this.)
    • eqnarray vs. align: The eqnarray environment is obsolete: "use the align environment of amsmath instead."
    • google: "The Computer Science of TeX and LaTeX" by Victor Eijkhout
    • Dynamic reporting with R/Sweave and LaTeX (PDF) by Uwe Ziegenhagen

      R is a sophisticated statistical programming language available for various platforms. Since its initial development in 1992 it has become the major open source tool for statistical data analysis. For the integration with LATEX it provides tools which allow the convenient dynamic creation of reports. In this article I will give a very brief introduction to R and show how R integrates in the LATEX workflow.

  • Chemical symbols and strutures/Chemistry
    • chemtex
    • chemtool
    • xdrawchem
    • ISIS/Draw from MDL
    • PPCHTeX.
      • google: PPCHTeX
      • CTAN: ppchtex "A package that can be used to typeset chemical formulas."
      • Chemical Formulas - PPCHTeX-Database
    • streetex: a tool for drawing structural formulae
    • ochem: Typeset chemical formulae with LaTeX.
    • XyMTeX: XyMTeX is a macro package for TeX, written by Fujita Shinsaku for rendering high quality chemical structures. LaTeX-XyMTeX google discussion groups.
    • mhchem: Typeset chemical formulae/equations and Risk and Safety phrases.
  • Music Typesetting!
    • LilyPond
      
    • MuX2d "This is a WYSIWYM(ean) editor for MusiXTeX - a macro package for typesetting music with TeX."
    • Greensleeves with LaTeX
  • Molecular Biology as of 2005 Jun 23
    • T_EXshade: A LaTeX package for setting nucleotide and peptide alignments with coloring.
    • T_EXtopo: A LaTeX package for shaded membrane protein topology plots
  • Graphics
    • Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. epslatex (PDF) (web page) "This document describes first how to import graphics into LATEX documents and then covers a wide variety issues about their use."
    • PSTricks: PostScript Tricks that make incredible graphics
      • Cool examples
      • Trees! using PSTricks
      • PSTricks Tutorial
      • Book review: PSTricks: Graphics and PostScript for TeX and LaTeX
    • PGF (portable graphic format) and Tikz are supposed to be more portable than PSTricks.
      • tikz example, spectacular tikz physics examples and electrical circuits!
      • google: tikz
      • sources at Source forge
      • TikZ and PGF Manual for version 1.10 (PDF) (Old, but check out the examples!!)
      • TikZ and PGF Manual for version 2.00 (PDF)
      • Spectacular examples (PDF)
    • Eukleides: a Euclidean geometry drawing language.
      • Eukleides
    • Graphviz: Graph Visualization Software
      • graphviz
    • Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program
      • Dia
    • "XY-pic is a package for typesetting graphs and diagrams"
      • Xy-pic
      • google Xy-pic
    • diagxy - another diagram package by Michael Barr
    • Programs for Creating Graphics:
      
      • Xfig "Xfig is an interactive drawing tool which runs under X Window System" It is the best graphics tool I've seen because one has precision control over where things appear. See example to the right.
      • ImageMagick Image manipulation - excellent command line based. The most powerful function in imagemagick is convert.
      • Xv "Xv is an interactive image manipulation program for the X Window System."
      • Inkscape Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics Editor
      • Cenon: graphical tool
      • Skencil
      • PyX - Python graphics package
      • Metapost
        • google: metapost
        • Examples
  • Manipulating Graphics
    • Inserting graphics in a figure, see: Extra vertical space in floats To avoid extra space, use this form:

          \begin{figure}
            \centering
            \includegraphics{...}
            \caption{...}
          \end{figure}

      See:
      • google: latex centering
      • \centering
      • advise on centering by Axel E. Retif

        By the way ---but to be considered by you only for future works---, I now follow the advice to avoid \begin{center} \includegraphics{...} \end{center}, and use \centering instead, as the center environment adds extra glue space.

    • Strategies for including graphics in LaTeX documents, Klaus Hoeppner, PracTeX, 2005, Number 3
    • Graphics for Inclusion in Electronic Documents (PDF document)
    • Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e (postscript document)
    • WARM Reader "The main use of WARMreader is for putting labels and annotations on figures and graphics imported into TEX and L^ATEX documents."
    • Mathematical illustrations: a manual of geometry and PostScript by Bill Casselman, 2005. This is a complete book!
    • epstool is a utility to create or extract preview images in EPS files, fix bounding boxes and convert to bitmaps. google: epstool.
    • epstopdf converts EPS files to encapsulated PDF files. google: epstopdf.
    • potrace "convert bitmaps and scans to vector graphics. It exports EPS, PDF, SVG, xfig, and a few others. It's very quick, too." (Thanks to Matthew Leingang http://www.math.harvard.edu/~leingang/ for pointing this out at texhax.) google: potrace.
    • graphics.cfg allows you to use the ImageMagick package to insert bitmap graphics directly into LaTeX! (Thanks to for pointing this out at texhax.) google: graphics.cfg.
    • Using Imported Graphics in LATEX and pdfLATEX includes information about graphics.cfg and much more.
    • ebb "extract bounding box" is a unix program that extracts a bounding box from JPEG, PNG, and PDF files. ebb(1) manual page (new as of 2009 Aug 06).
    • sam2p "convert raster (bitmap) images to PostScript, PDF and other formats" original home page and google code.

      BTW, IMO the best tool which converts bitmap graphics to EPS and PDF is sam2p. It's extremely fast and creates much smaller files than any other tool, without loss of quality.

      --- Reinhard Kotucha. (new as of 2012 May 31).
  • Underlining etc
    • How can I: underline, double-underline, dotted underline?: find ulem.sty at CTAN.
    • How can I: strike or highlight? Use the soul package, check out the soul manual. To set it up on a Unix box with wget installed:

          wget ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/soul.zip
          unzip soul.zip
          cd soul
          make
          

  • Business cards
    • I have a small tex file that I use to make business cards,
      businesscard.tex (download)
      or
      businesscard.txt (.txt allows you to view the .tex file).
      You just supply a 'guts.tex' guts.tex/ guts.txt (example thanks to Brian Bartholomew)
      and LaTeX makes a set of 10 copies per page (in two columns) that you can cut out or print on card stock and tear apart. I have printed it on plain paper and although the cards are not stiff, people accept them anyway! The advantage is that one can always print more, one can change them quickly and they don't cost much.
      • Note: I have inserted '\usepackage{pst-node}' which allows you to use the powerful PSTricks. If you don't have this package on your computer you will have to install it or remove the usepackage command. I have not tested the PSTricks.
      • Note: The revised version of the card now is designed to print on pre-perferated card stock paper. This is way more convenient than cutting by hand! Any stationary store should have this paper. Further details are in comments in the file.
      as of 2013 May 12
    • http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/bytopic.html#bizcards
      ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bizcard
  • PDF Manipulation
    • PDF by Design is a blog post by James C. King discussing the history of PDF.
    • pdfjam allows one to extract and manipulate PDF pages. Another link: pdfjam.
    • Pdftk - the PDF Toolkit allows one to extract and manipulate PDF pages. "If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses."
    • dvipdfm, in conjunction with pdfpages.sty in the tex-live distribution and at ctan are said to allow one to manipulate PDF pages.
      • google: dvipdfm
      • google: pdfpages
    • PDF Animation. pdfanim. as of 2006 May 12
    • How to deal with Fuzzy PDF
    • pdfscreen, google: pdfscreen
    • pdfcrop crop PDF pages
    • "I want to embed a multi-page pdf file in a LaTeX document. Is there an easy way to do this other than to split it up into individual pages and insert each one as a figure?"
      --- Texhax 2007 Apr 1
      \usepackage{pdfpages}
      --- Martin Schroder
      \includepdf[pages=1,5]{file-name.pdf}
      for including pages 1 through 5 of the file named file-name.pdf
      The manual is at pdfpages manual --- David C. Walden
    • qpdf manipulate PDF file structure
    • PoDoFo is a library to work with the PDF file format
    • PDF Nup Maker Make multiple PDFs onto one page. as of 2011 Nov 06
  • PostScript Manipulation. One can manipulate the postscript and then convert to PDF with ps2pdf (my favorite converter)
    • psutils postscript utilities, in particular psselect which one can use to pick one or more pages out.
  • LaTeX Colors. latexcolor.com. See also the CTAN page: latexcolors - Use color definitions from latexcolor.com.
  • Database. Database LaTeX Report "enables you to produce a LaTeX (standard, no extension required) report for database objects (tables, views, indexes, functions, primary/foreign keys, columns, types, keywords, system functions)".
  • datatool. datatool "Databases can be created using LaTeX commands or loaded from external ASCII files, such as comma or tab separated variable files" New as of 2011 Apr 26
  • Files Used.
    • mkjobtexmf tries to find the used file names in a LaTeX file.
    • packtex a script to identify and locate used files.
  • bundledoc: Bundle together all the files needed to build a LaTeX document..
    • Snapshot: package, source
    • Bundledoc: package, source
    • texhax discussion
• Tom Schneider's Resources
  • Starter Page I have put together a starter page for people: LaTeX for Beginners.
  • atchange Automation! There are at least two methods to automate LaTeX, which means you get pretty close to a WYSIWYG EXCEPT you still have full language control - so it beats the WYSIWYG.
• Bibliography and Citations

  • biblatex Bibliographies in LaTeX using BibTeX for sorting only. Eliminates the .bst programming - YEA! Still in Beta according to the manual (as of 2008 Jan 15). New as of 2008 Jan 15

  • Tame the BeaST The B to X of BibTEX by Nicolas Markey
  • MakeBst is a program for automatically making bst files. sion to and from BiBTeX format! Wow! Bravo!
    The EndNote BiBTeX ftp Archive
    Thanks to Massimo Pinto (pinto@graylab.ac.uk) for pointing this out! (New as of 1999 Dec 8, revised links 2005 Aug 22)
  • bibtex bibliography tools from Nelson H. F. Beebe
  • JabRef is a GUI for managing BibTeX databases
  • CrossTeX bibliography management tool, backwards-compatible with BibTeX.
  • BibDesk bibliographic reference manager for Mac OS X New as of 2008 Jun 18
  • A BibTeX Guide Through Examples [pdf] one of the nice documents at Ki-Joo's LaTeX Documents New as of 2008 Jun 30
  • replacebib is a Unix tcsh script to automatically insert the .bbl into the .tex file. This is useful if you are submitting to PNAS.
  • mksubbib is a Unix script that extracts a subset of a BiBTeX database. That is, you get just the part of the .bib file you are using and can give that to a journal instead of your whole .bib file. The script uses subbib.bst.
• Squeezing Space in LaTeX shows how to compress your LaTeX!
  See also Jakob's LaTeX2e tricks.
  For the bibliography do:

    \let\oldthebibliography=\thebibliography
    \let\endoldthebibliography=\endthebibliography
    \renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]{%
      \begin{oldthebibliography}{#1}%
        \setlength{\parskip}{0ex}%
        \setlength{\itemsep}{0ex}%
    }%
    {%
      \end{oldthebibliography}%
    }
  

• Typesetting
  • Free e-texts on typography including publishing, research, standards, and T_EX and Books/Electronic T_EX by William Adams.
• Tables
  • Table tools
  • Multicolumn long table or enumeration (from a texhax discussion)
• Conversion between Formats
  • Other Lists
    • Converters between LaTeX and PC Textprocessors at tug.org.
    • Pandoc converts between many formats such as LaTeX, OpenOffice and Doc.
    • GELMU: LaTeX-like markup for writing XML documents, GELMU at CTAN
  • TEXT
    • detex detex "DeTeX is a filter program that removes the LaTeX (or TeX) control sequences from the input so that the real content can be passed to a spell or diction checker."
    • catdvi, crudetype, detex, dvi2tty, l2a, screen.sty, tex2mail, txt Conversion from (La)TeX to plain ASCII at the UK List of TeX Frequently Asked Questions on the Web.
    • untex untex is a Pascal filter that handles some LaTeX constructs.
    • notex notex is a Pascal filter that handles some LaTeX constructs. Untex is probably better.
    • dvi2tty dvi2tty convert dvi to text file (This is part of my tex installation, so you probably don't need to install it.)
  • HTML
    • latex2html Convert LaTeX to HTML.
      Example: Information Theory Primer
      • You can find these files at CTAN, search for 'latex2html'.
        latex2html at CTAN
    • tth "TTH translates TEX, the predominant mark-up language for expressing mathematics, into HTML". http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/
    • Hyperlatex http://hyperlatex.sourceforge.net
    • HyperTex http://arxiv.org/hypertex/, from the physics/math print archive arxiv.org, is for both TeX and LaTeX.
    • TeX4ht
      • TeX4ht: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext. "TeX4ht is a highly configurable TeX-based authoring system for producing hypertext."
      • TeX4HT under MiKTeX "This paper explains how to set upTeX4ht, Eitan Gurari's TeX/LaTeX-to-hypertext translation system, when the underlying TeX system is MiKTeX for Win32 platforms."
      • Manual for Tex2RTF 1.61: A LaTeX to RTF and HTML converter
      • Here's a tiny working example:

                    From texhax-bounces@tug.org  Sat Jul 19 04:20:44 2008
                    From: "Axel E. Retif" 
                    Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:18:10 -0500
                    To: texhax 
        
                    \documentclass{article}
                    \usepackage{tex4ht}
                    \begin{document}
                    \section{Testing}
                    Hi, this is only a test.
                    \end{document}
        
                    saved the file as testtex4th.tex and then, in a terminal session (Mac
                    or Linux, or, I guess, at the Command Prompt in Windows)
        
                    htlatex testtex4ht.tex
        
                    and I got testtex4ht.html with the above.
               

      • Eitan Gurari 1947-2009 (author of TeX4ht)
  • RTF
    • Converters from LaTeX to PC Textprocessors - Overview
    • rtf2latex "While installing FreeBSD 4.2 I ran across a package called "rtf2latex" and it's sister package "latex2rtf". Rich Text Format is widely used by Word(Y) and most importantly, FORMS can be sent via rtf. I have NOT used these packages yet (so the usual caveat emptor applies) ... I found it on the install disk obtained from http://www.linuxiso.org." Thanks to Doug Green, green@np.awing.upmc.edu, for pointing these out!
      • Search on www.alltheweb.com
      • At CTAN: rtf2latex
      • At sourceforge.net: latex2rtf.sourceforge.net: I (Tom Schneider) tried this and it works reasonably nicely!! 2003 Oct 7: The latest version even does colors and simple equations such as fractions and superscripts! It is perfectly viable to write one's document in LaTeX and convert to RTF.
      • Mac sit.hqx files
    • latex2rtf convert LaTeX to RTF.
      • latex2rtf at sourceforge
      • http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/RTF-Spec-1.0.txt but BEWARE THAT THIS MICROSOFT DEFINITION IS SLOPPY! See the latex2rtf documentation introduction.
    • Manual for Tex2RTF 1.61: A LaTeX to RTF and HTML converter
  • Word
    • Chikrii Softlab provides commercial tools to convert from (Word2TeX) and to (Word2TeX) Word. A less direct but free route is to use openoffice.org (direct link: openoffice.org home page) to go between RTF and word, and rtf2latex or latex2rtf. (Here's another link, same place: www.word2tex.com convert LaTeX to Word.)
    • word2tex and tex2word from www.adeptscience.co.uk.
    • ltx2rtf: exporting L^AT_EX documents to Word addicts
    • OpenOffice can read word doc files and output LaTeX.
    • writer2latex converts OpenDocument formats (from OpenOffice.org) into LaTeX and can do this from the commandline. Configuration is done in a writer2latex.xml file in your home directory. See this thread on texhax.
    • wordml2latex converts a word document to LaTeX.
  • PDF to Word all are $$$Commercial$$$:
    • www.verypdf.com
    • www.digitalriver.com
    • www.pdftransformer.com
    • www.solidpdf.com
  • PDF to SWF PDF2SWF converts a PDF to Adobe Flash (SWF)!
    (as noted in texhax 2009 Oct 21)
    • SWFTOOLS: http://www.swftools.org/
    • pdfscreen: http://www.swftools.org/flash/pdfscreen.html
• Documentation
  • A detailed bibliography of (650+) TeX-related books and articles
• Lists of Resources
  • http://omega.albany.edu:8008/LaTeX.html
  • Just the LaTeX Symbols
• Previewers
  • JBibtexManager is a gui front end to bibtex which works on all platforms. JBibtexManager can also read in medline in xml format.
  • Instant Preview and the TEX daemon "Instant Preview is a new package, for use with Emacs and xdvi, that allows the user to preview instantly the file being edited. At normal typing speed, and on a 200MHz machine, it refreshes the preview screen with every keystroke." code is on sourceforge
  • AUCT_EX "is an extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in GNU Emacs and XEmacs." It has (what appears to be) a nice, colorful, graphical interface.
  • LyX: is aWYSIWYM: What You See is What You Mean.

    "LyX is an advanced open source document processor running on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface and need an X server. Unlike standard word processors, LyX encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual layout to the software."

• Platforms based on TeX new as of 2008 Mar 15
  • "LyX is the first WYSIWYM document processor." (Free Software / Open Source)
  • "Gnu TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. "
  • "Publicon -- an integrated solution for composing documents in XML and other structured data formats." (commercial)
  • Scientific Word/Workplace "an easy-to-use word processor that completely integrates writing mathematics and text in the same environment." (commercial)
• Misc
  • Donald Knuth
    • 2005 March 14: NPR interviews Donald Knuth, inventor of TeX which is the basis of LaTeX.
    • Donald Knuth's Web Site.
    • Interview with Donald Knuth

      @String{j-CACM = "Communications of the ACM"} @Article{Shustek:2008:IAB, author = "Len Shustek", title = "Interview: The 'art' of being {Donald Knuth}", journal = j-CACM, volume = "51", number = "7", pages = "35--39", month = jul, year = "2008", CODEN = "CACMA2", DOI = "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1364782.1364794", ISSN = "0001-0782", bibdate = "Tue Jun 24 07:46:54 MDT 2008", bibsource = "http://www.acm.org/pubs/contents/journals/cacm/", abstract = "In this first of a two-part talk, the renowned scholar and computer scientist reflects on the influences that set the course for his extraordinary career.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,

      @String{j-CACM = "Communications of the ACM"} @Article{Shustek:2008:IDK, author = "Len Shustek", title = "Interview: {Donald Knuth}: {A} life's work interrupted", journal = j-CACM, volume = "51", number = "8", pages = "31--35", month = aug, year = "2008", CODEN = "CACMA2", DOI = "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378704.1378715", ISSN = "0001-0782", bibdate = "Tue Aug 5 18:48:27 MDT 2008", bibsource = "http://www.acm.org/pubs/contents/journals/cacm/", abstract = "In this second of a two-part interview by Edward Feigenbaum, we find Knuth, having completed three volumes of {\em The Art of Computer Programming}, drawn to creating a system to produce books digitally.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb}

      (Thanks to Nelson Beebe, twice)
    • 2009 Mar 10: texbook.tex - one can't process this, it's for examples.
  • LaTeX Navigator
  • TeX directory structure (TDS)
  • Text Processing using LaTeX is really nice documentation from the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering.
  • The UK TeX Archive contains the UK TeX Frequently Asked Questions
  • TeX-related documentation in the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
  • List the files used
  • The Omega Typesetting and Document Processing System. This 16 bit typesetting based on TeX allows typesetting in multiple or complex languages.
  • "Vim LaTeX Macros is a set of macros meant to make writing LaTeX with Vim more convenient." "Vim is undoubtedly one of the best editors ever made. LaTeX is an extremely powerful, intelligent typesetter. Vim-LaTeX aims at bringing together the best of both these worlds."
    • Project info for VimLatex.
    • VimLaTeX at Sourceforge.
  • PlanetMath: "PlanetMath is a virtual community which aims to help make mathematical knowledge more accessible. ... PlanetMath entries are written in LaTeX, the lingua franca of the worldwide mathematics community." new link as of 2008 Jul 30
  • How to program a Mars rover in TeX ICFP Contest 2008 new link as of 2008 Aug 04
• Advanced How do I write LaTeX classes and packages? Narendran Subu (narendran_9@SPAMBLOCKyahoo.com) wrote on the texhax group: "There are no guides, really, beyond what that outlines, other than the language the things are usually written in, for which see:" Documented LaTeX sources (.dtx files)

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