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This page contains pointers to documentation for our TeX installation (including LaTeX 2e) and a number of related topics. Most documentation is in DVI format, although HTML conversions are gradually being provided.

Installation Notes

• Using the New TeX Installation Here in the CS Department (TN51)
  Local guide on switching to LaTeX 2e.

Local Information

• Local Classes and Packages
  Information on all of the local style files, e.g. csletter, csthesis, csfax, csmemo, etc..
• Master Index of Local Documentation
  Automatically generated list of documents, mostly for LaTeX packages.
• Font Index of Locally Installed Fonts
  Automatically generated list of fonts, with sample documents for each font.
• The Local LaTeX FAQ
  A list of Frequently Asked Questions about our local installation.
• eduni.dcs.latex
  The local LaTeX newsgroup.

Macintosh Documentation

• The OzTeX Home Page
  Includes an OzTeX description, mailing list info, the OzTeX FAQ, etc..
• The OzTeX User Guide (PDF)
  OzTeX is the Macintosh implementation of TeX.
• The MusicTeX User Guide (PDF)
  MusicTeX allows you to use TeX to write polyphonic or instrumental music.

LaTeX 2e Guides

• Converting to LaTeX 2e
  A very short conversion page on converting from latex209 to latex2e.
• LaTeX for the Terrified (TN7)
  The local introduction to writing LaTeX 2e documents. The document is a note on its own source.
• Local LaTeX help
  A description of many of LaTeX 2e's commands and concepts.
• The Not So Short Guide To LaTeX 2e (TN50)
  A brief LaTeX reference manual.
• LaTeX 2e for Authors (TN52)
  A LaTeX 2e user guide for users already familiar with LaTeX 209
• LaTeX 2e for Class and Package Writers (TN53)
  An introduction to writing classes and packages for LaTeX 2e

Old LaTeX (LaTeX 209)

• Hypertext on-line help for LaTeX, BibTeX, and MakeIndex.
  The old local guide to the department's TeX/LaTeX installation
• GNUPLOT An interactive plotting program (TN26)
  The documentation for the gnuplot program
• LATEX and the GNUPLOT plotting program (TN27)
  How to integrate gnuplot graphs into LaTeX documents

TeX

• Hypertext on-line help for Plain TeX.
  HTML documentation for the plain TeX system
• TeX Frequently Asked Questions
  WWW version of the UK TeX Users Group TeX FAQ.
• The UK TeX Archive
  The CTAN Web page for the TeX/LaTeX distribution
• Search the UK TeX Archive
  A search engine for the CTAN TeX archive
• comp.text.tex
  A newsgroup for discussion of TeX related issues.

LaTeX

• LaTeX: A Document Preparation System
  The standard home page from the LaTeX project.
• Converters between LaTeX and PC Textprocessors
  A FAQ on available converters into and from LaTeX.

User Groups

• UK TeX Users Group
  Founded in 1989 as a focus for TeX-relatex activities in the UK
• The TeX Users Group
  Founded in 1980 to provide leadership for users of TeX
• DANTE e.V.
  Founded in 1989 for German TeX users (in German)
• L'association GUTenberg
  A French TeX users group (in French)

Fonts

• LaTeX 2e Font Selection
  Describes the new font selection features of LaTeX 2e
• The comp.fonts Home Page
  The WWW home page for the comp.fonts USENET newsgroup
• The comp.fonts FAQ
  The list of Frequently Asked Questions for the comp.fonts newsgroup
• Filenames for TeX fonts
  A scheme proposed by Karl Berry for naming TeX fonts

Postscript

• The Ghostscript Home Page
  A PostScript interpreter and viewer
• The comp.lang.postscript FAQ
  The list of Frequently Asked Questions for the comp.lang.postscript newsgroup
• The dvips documentation
  Dvips is a DVI->PostScript translator

AUC TeX

• The AUC TeX Manual.
  AUC TeX is the xemacs and emacs19 editing mode for TeX/LaTeX
• The AUC TeX Home Page.
  With documentation, the latest release, mailing list info, etc.

TeX Pages at other Sites

• Cambridge's TeX documentation page
• LaTeX/TeX documentation at Berlin

Projects

• techexplorer
  A Netscape plug-in for Win95/NT to display TeX/LaTeX documents in the browser
• HyperTeX
  A mechanism to add hypertext capability to TeX
• Omega Home
  An extension of TeX to improve multilingual capabilities
• The Hyperlatex package
  Enables internal and external hypertext links in TeX
• The AsTeR system (spoken mathematics)
  Audio System For Technical Reading
• LaTeX to HTML
  A package to convert LaTeX documents into HTML for publishing on the Web.

Esotericism

• The Kpathsearch library documentation
  kpathsearch is the library used by TeX, Metafont, dvips, and xdvi for file path searching
• The WEB user manual
  A system for managing structured documentation
• The TeX Directory Structure
  A draft standard to stabalise the organisation of TeX-related software

TeX vendors

• Y&Y, Inc.
  Supply programs and fonts for the TeX typesetting system
• Blue Sky Research
  Offer documentation, TeX consulting, an ftp server with useful material, etc.
• Personal TeX, Inc.
  Produce PCTeX: an integrated TeX implementation for Windows
• O'Reilly and TeX