Distributions and environments

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General information

TeX Directory Structure (TDS) version 0.9995 (29 January 1998).
TDS Homepage
Latest version of the TDS (html)
Configuration of the UNIX web2c distribution (Karl Berry)
Documentation of web2c 7.0 (February 1997)
Documentation of Web2c for Win32 (Fabrice Popineau)

Distributions

Multiplatform -- Unix -- PC/Windows -- Macintosh -- Other platforms -- Internationalized distributions

Multiplatform

TeX Live

TeX Live CDROM

The TeX Live Guide, version 2 (Sebastian Rahtz and Michel Goossens) (1997)

The TeX Live Guide, 3rd edition (pdf) (PostScript) (html)
Unix
- teTeX (for UNIX and linux) (Thomas Esser)
  - Homepage
  - Download teTeX
  - Documentation
  - Slides presented at "distributions" day (29 May 1996, Paris) (Thomas Esser)
  - The teTEX System: Concepts of Installation, Configuration and Maintenance (Cahiers GUTenberg 28-29, 1998, pages 122-130) (Thomas Esser)
- TurboTeX (Richard J. Kinch)
- NTeX (Linux-only) (this was the Slackware version of TeX)
  - The NTeX distribution
- VTeX/lnx (partial port of VTeX for Linux)
- SupTeX, a distribution for French users (Frédéric Boulanger )
PC/Windows
- FPTeX (Fabrice Popineau's port of teTeX)
- TeX for Windows 95/NT: Comparative study by Young Ryu (July 1996)
- NTG 4allTeX CDROM
- emTeX (Eberhard Mattes)
- MikTeX (Windows95)
  - MikTeX
  - Installation Guide MiKTeX/WinEDT/GhostView
  - Native 32-bit TeXing on PC (Willem Minten)
- Scientific Word
  - TCI Software Research, makers of Scientific Word
  - Scientific Word (description)
  - Scientific Word Ltd. (distribute Scientific Word in the UK)
  - Scientific WorkPlace/Word Unofficial Homepage
- BaKoMa-TeX (Win. 3.1/9X/NT)
  - readme file for version 2.0
  - announce file for version 2.0
- Y&Y TeX
- PCTeX
- TrueTeX (Richard J. Kinch)
- VTeX
- wtex (H. Sendoukas) Preliminary announcement
- gtex (Young U. Ryu) (no information yet )
- sbTeX (Wayne Sullivan) (no information yet )
- PC-GUT (PC) (no information yet )
Macintosh
- Macintosh Tex/LaTeX software page
- CMacTeX
- DirectTeX Pro (see the manual here)
- OzTeX (Andrew Trevorrow). see also the announcement of OzTeX 2.1 (14 September 1996).
- TeXtures Textures 2.0 comes with Synchronicity, which synchronizes source text and formatted pages.
- TeXgX (compatible with GX fonts)
- MacpTeX (Macintosh pTeX, hence japanese TeX for the Macintosh)
- TeXshop (Richard Koch, Jérôme Laurens, Dirk Olmes), TeX previewer for Mac OS X, written in Cocoa, works with teTeX
- SupTeX, a distribution for French users (Frédéric Boulanger )
Other platforms
- javaTeX -- a Java implementation of TeX
- SciTeXt -- a TeX-based word processor done in Java
- stepTeX (TeX pour NEXTSTEP)
Internationalized distributions
- ArabicTeX (Yannis Haralambous) Presentation (7 pages, 20 April 1995, in french)
- AsTeX (PC) (French evolution of emTeX)
  - Message of the author
  - Distribution
- EthTeX (Ethiopian TeX) (Presentation)
- FarsiTeX (Persian TeX)
- CTeX (Chinese TeX) (User's Guide) (Zhong-jian Teng) (26 October 1994)
- JaWaTeX (Japanese TeX) (ftp)
- pTeX (Japanese TeX)
- HLaTeX (Hangul LaTeX)
- Euro-OzTeX (Macintosh) : no information yet
- ScholarTeX (Yannis Haralambous)
  - no information available
  - not in public domain
  - seems to be obsolete since Omega has come out
BCTeX (no information yet )
The Publisher (Arbortext) : SGML software using TeX engine
- apparently not distributed anymore
- see also Arbortext

Environments

Text-Editors

Emacs modes

AUCTeX (LaTeX mode for GNU emacs and associated tools)

Documentation
AUC TeX (Per Abrahamsen)

reftex (emacs mode for references)

iTe (LaTeX mode for emacs. Lets you interactively edit the objects position, orientation, etc)
GNU Emacs on Windows NT and Windows 95

Autres éditeurs

Textpad editor (for Win3.1x and Win95) (has a TeX mode)

Freeware LaTeX editor for Windows

Alpha ()
Equation editors
- The MathSpad Editor (Roland Backhouse and Richard Verhoeven)
- Equation Magic Lite 2.1 (OLE TeX-based Equation Editor for Win 95, Win 98 and Win NT 4.0)
- Equation Magic Pro 2.1 (commercial OLE TeX-based Equation Editor for Windows)
xlatex
Xtem
LyX
- LyX - The Document Processor
- LyX page for developers
- KLyX - The KDE Document Processor
- LyX, the word-processor front-end for LaTeX (Matthias Ettrich)
- Allan Rae's LyX site
- LyX - a word processor for Unix/X11
- Lyx - (k)ein Textverarbeitungsprogramm
- Introduction to LyX
- The LyX Tutorial
- User's guide (137 pages)
- Reference manual (104 pages)
- How Do I...
- Tools of the LaTeX Masters
- Customizing LyX

Last modified: 25 Apr 2001