Getting started with TeX, LaTeX, and friends - TeX Users Group TeX is a typesetting language Instead of visually formatting your text, you enter your manuscript text intertwined with TeX commands in a plain text file You then run TeX to produce formatted output, such as a PDF file
TeX Users Group (TUG) The TeX Users Group (TUG) is a membership-based not-for-profit organization, founded in 1980, for anyone who uses the TeX typesetting system created by Donald Knuth and or is interested in typography and font design
History of TeX - TeX Users Group TeX (= tau epsilon chi, and pronounced similar to "blecch", not to the state known for `Tex-Mex' chili) is a computer language and program designed for use in typesetting; in particular, for typesetting math and other technical (from Greek "techne" = art craft, the stem of `technology') material
TeX Live - TeX Users Group TeX Live is intended to be a straightforward way to get up and running with the TeX document production system It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors of Unix, including GNU Linux and macOS , and also Windows
TeX Resources on the Web - TeX Users Group Overall TeX system: TDS, the TeX Directory Structure standard, the common layout for TeX systems A freely available book on the TeX system: Making TeX Work, by Norman Walsh (O'Reilly, 1994; 15 chapters, 6 appendices) LaTeX tutorials and courses: Learning resources for a LaTeX beginner, a tex stackexchange com discussion page
Acquiring TeX Live - TeX Users Group This page is about acquiring the “original” TeX Live—the version of TeX released by the TeX user groups If you want to get TeX as it is packaged by the myriad operating system distros, see the information available from the particular distro you want
Documentation - TeX Live - TeX Users Group TeX Live documentation After you obtain the TeX Live distribution, please read the main documentation for TeX Live, which includes installation instructions for Unix and Windows For MacOSX, we recommend installing MacTeX, which contains all of TeX Live (and more)
Levels of TeX - TeX Users Group TeX source files can be typeset into several different output formats, depending on the engine Notably, the pdfTeX engine (despite its name) can output both DVI and PDF files At a high level, the output format that gets used depends on the program you invoke
Quick install - TeX Live - TeX Users Group TeX Live - Quick install for Unix If you don't want to bother reading the full install documentation and just want to install everything in TeX Live, on a Unix-like system, a minimal recipe follows For macOS (and MacOSX), we recommend installing MacTeX, which has a native Mac installer, and contains all of TeX Live (and a few Mac-specific
Windows - TeX Live - TeX Users Group With the DVD or the ISO you can install TeX Live without access to the internet 64- and 32-bit binaries As of TeX Live 2023, the Windows binaries are 64-bit 32-bit binaries are not included, since we cannot easily support both together