mas LaTeX resources

• User groups
• Wikis
• Web fora
• Mailing lists
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Blogs
• Distributions
• Editors
• Output viewers
• Newsgroups
• Other Web resources
• other

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User groups

• TUG TeX Users Group
• UK-TUG
• LaTeX the product and the LaTeX3 project

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Newsgroups

• comp.text.tex (Google feed) Usenet group for TeX and LaTeX

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Web fora

• TeX, LaTeX and friends on Stack Exchange
• LaTeX-Community.org LaTeX web forum

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

• amsmath FAQ
• AMS authors FAQ
• UK TUG FAQ
• Visual LaTeX FAQ formatting samples

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Software and Package Archives and Catalogues

• Automated Mercurial Repositories of CTAN provided by Martin Scharrer. Started in October 2011 it provides an Hg repository for CTAN package changes, initially focussing on LaTeX
• CTAN - The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network definitive resources on TeX and LaTeX
• TeX Catalogue Online TeX/LaTeX package catalogue with various indexes
• TUG TeX Resources on the Web
• LaTeX Font Catalogue of free fonts available for LaTeX
• CTAN free Math font survey

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Wikis

• The LaTeX Wiki

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Mailing lists

• TUG mailing lists
• CTAN Announcements
• pgf-users mailing list for pgf/TikZ
• Typo-L list type and typography

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Blogs

• TeXblog by Stefan Kottwitz, author of LaTeX Beginner's Guide
• Some TeX Developments by Joseph Wright
• LaTeX Alive by Will Robertson
• LaTeX for Humans
• LaTeX/XeTeX for theologians
• texample.net/community aggregator

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Distributions

• TUG TeX Live for GNU/Linux, Mac and Windows

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Editors

• Cross-platform
  • Texmaker
  • TexmakerX
  • TexWorks
  • emacs
  • vim with LaTeXsuite addon
• GNU/Linux only
  • Kile for KDE
  • gedit for Gnome with LaTeX plugin

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Output viewers

All available on Ubuntu 11.04 via Synaptic

• PDF
  • xpdf: fast but font rendering can be better in evince
  • acroread: Adobe non-free software. Supports annotations
  • okular, needs KDE libraries
  • evince: latest version supports annotations
  • gv
  • mupdf
  • apvlv: has vim-like movements
  • epdf: lightweight viewer using poppler libraries
• DVI
  • xdvi
  • evince

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Other Web resources

• Scott Pakin's comprehensive symbol list on CTAN
• DeTeXify symbol recognition
• Short Course on LaTeX for Maths, Chapter 1, appendices and index from George Grätzer's "More Math into LaTeX", 4th edition. There are accompanying .mov videos, also available in the info/Math_into_LaTeX-4 directory of CTAN and sample code, downloadable as a .zip file with the other files mentioned, in the info/samples/Math_into_LaTeX-4 directory of CTAN
• The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e, English edition, by Tobias Oetiker, from CTAN.

Other

• ConTeXt Garden wiki
• LyX and its wiki
• LuaTeX

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