TeX TeX AMS-TeX (or AMSTeX) is a TeX macro package originally written from 1983 to 1985 by Michael Spivak for the American Mathematical Society. ...more on Wikipedia about "AMS-TeX"
ArabTeX is a free software package providing support for the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets to TeX and LaTeX. Written by Klaus Lagally, it can take romanized ASCII or native script input to produce quality ligatures for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Maghribi, Uyghur, Kashmiri, Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino and Yiddish. ArabTeX characters are placed within a LaTeX document using the commands \< … > or \LR{ … } or the environment \begin{arabtext} … \end{arabtext}. ...more on Wikipedia about "ArabTeX"
Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language that provides a natural coordinate-based framework for technical drawing. Labels and equations are typeset with LaTeX, for high-quality PostScript output. It is inspired by Metapost, but has a C++-like syntax. It provides a standard for typesetting mathematical figures. ...more on Wikipedia about "Asymptote (vector graphics language)"
(AUCTeX) AUCTEX is an extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in GNU Emacs and XEmacs. ...more on Wikipedia about "AUCTeX"
Beamer is the name of a LaTeX class for creating presentations. It works together with pdflatex and dvips. The name derives from the German word ...more on Wikipedia about "Beamer (LaTeX)"
BibTeX is a tool for formatting lists of references used by the LaTeX document preparation system. ...more on Wikipedia about "BibTeX"
Computers and Typesetting is a 5-volume set of books by Donald Knuth describing the TEX and Metafont systems for Digital typography. Knuth's computers and typesetting project was the result of his frustration with the lack of decent software for the typesetting of mathematical and technical documents. The result of this project include for typesetting, Metafont for font construction and the Computer Modern typefaces that are the default fonts used by . In the series of 5 books Knuth not only describes the TeX and Metafont languages (volumes A and C), he also describes and documents the source code (in the WEB programming language) of the and Metafont interpreters (volumes B and D), and the source code for the Computer Modern fonts used by (volume E). The book set stands as a tour de force demonstration of literate programming. ...more on Wikipedia about "Computers and Typesetting" www.shortopedia.com for you! shortopedia
ConTEXt is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting program. Being more recent than the other main TeX macro package, LaTeX, it is both more modular in its conception and more monolithic in its building. For instance, TeX-based vector graphics are fully integrated into ConTeXt through Metafun, a superset of the MetaPost graphic programming language (which in turn is derived from Metafont language, another creation of Donald Knuth). It also focuses on using PdfTeX to generate both paper and on-line screen versions of the same documents. It comes with some Perl utility scripts, like TeXutil and TeXexec. Furthermore it features an integrated XML parser (with support for MathML). ...more on Wikipedia about "ConTeXt"
CTAN is an acronym for the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. ...more on Wikipedia about "CTAN"
DVI ("DeVice Independent") is the output file format of the TeX typesetting program, designed by Donald Knuth in 1979. Unlike the TeX markup files used to generate them, DVI files are not intended to be human-readable; they consist of binary data describing the visual layout of a document in a manner not reliant on any specific image format, display hardware or printer (hence the DVI format's name). DVI files are typically used as input to a second program (called a DVI driver) which translates DVI files to graphical data. For example, most TeX software packages include a program for previewing DVI files on a user's computer display; this program is a driver. Drivers are also used to convert DVI files to popular document formats (e.g. PostScript, PDF) and for printing. Wikipedia uses a PNG driver to generate graphics for mathematical formulae in articles. ...more on Wikipedia about "DVI file format"
In computing, dvips is the most widely used program for converting the output of the TeX typesetting system into a printable form. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dvips"
GNU TEXMACS (alternatively, TeXmacs) is a free scientific word processor component of the GNU project, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. It is written and maintained by Joris van der Hoeven. The program allows you to write structured documents via a user-friendly WYSIWYG interface. New styles may be created by the user. The program implements high-quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts, which help the user to produce professional looking documents. ...more on Wikipedia about "GNU TeXmacs"
Kile is a user-friendly TeX/ LaTeX editor similar to WinEdt. It runs on Unix-like systems including Mac OS X and Linux with the KDE desktop environment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kile"
An article in MIT's Technology Review describes these reward checks as "among computerdom's most prized trophies" ** . ...more on Wikipedia about "Knuth reward check"
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LATEX, written as LaTeX in plain text, is a document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. ...more on Wikipedia about "LaTeX"
The LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) is a software license originally written for the LaTeX system. Software distributed under the terms of the LPPL can be regarded as free software, however it is not copylefted. ...more on Wikipedia about "LaTeX Project Public License"
LaTeX Editor, called later LEd, is a free environment for rapid TeX/LaTeX document development. ...more on Wikipedia about "LEd"
LYX (LyX in plain text) is a document processor following the "what you see is what you mean" paradigm ( WYSIWYM), as opposed to the WYSIWYG ideas used by word processors. This means that the user only has to care about the structure and content of the text, while the formatting is done by LATEX, an advanced typesetting system. LyX is designed for authors who want professional output with a minimum of effort and without becoming specialists in typesetting. The job of typesetting is done mostly by the computer, following a predefined set of rules called a style, and not by the author. Specific knowledge of the LATEX document processing system is not necessary but may improve editing with LyX significantly for specialist purposes. ...more on Wikipedia about "LyX"
MakeIndex is a computer program which provides a sorted index from unsorted raw data. MakeIndex can process raw data output by various programs, however, it is generally used with LaTeX and troff. ...more on Wikipedia about "MakeIndex"
METAFONT is a programming language used to define vector fonts. It is also the name of the interpreter that executes METAFONT code, converting the vector fonts into bitmap fonts that can be included in PostScript documents. ...more on Wikipedia about "METAFONT"
MetaPost is both a programming language and the only known interpreter of the MetaPost programming language. Both are derived from Donald Knuth's Metafont language and interpreter. MetaPost excels at producing diagrams in the PostScript programming language from a geometric/algebraic description. The language shares Metafont's elegant declarative syntax for manipulating lines, curves, points and geometric transformations. However, ...more on Wikipedia about "MetaPost" http://www.shortopedia.com never sleeps. shortopedia
MiKTeX is an TeX/LaTeX distribution for Windows. ...more on Wikipedia about "MiKTeX"
Omega is an extension of the TeX typesetting system that uses the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode. It was authored by John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous after TeX development was frozen in 1991, primarily to enhance TeX's multilingual typesetting abilities. It includes a new 16-bit font encoding for TeX, as well as fonts (omlgc and omah) covering a wide range of alphabets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Omega (TeX)"
pdfTeX is a variant of the TeX typesetting program originally written by Hàn Thể Thành. The main difference between TeX and pdfTeX is that whereas TeX outputs DVI files, pdfTeX outputs PDF files directly. This allows tight integration of PDF features such as hypertext links and tables of contents, using packages such as hyperref. On the other hand, packages exploiting the usual conversion chain of DVI-to- PostScript such as PSTricks may fail, although replacements such as pdftricks have been written. ...more on Wikipedia about "PdfTeX"
PPCHTeX is a macro package for typesetting chemical structure diagrams with TeX. ...more on Wikipedia about "PPCHTeX"
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