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 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
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 Live 软件发行版为 Unix, Macintosh, Windows 和其他多种平台提供了一套完整的 TeX 系统。它包含了编辑、排版、预览和打印各种语言下 TeX 文档的各类程序,以及 TeX 宏与字体库的庞大集合。
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
MacTeX - TeX Users Group About TeX Live, MacTeX, and BasicTeX: TeX Live is the standard distribution of TeX, LaTeX, and related programs produced by TeX Users Groups across the world The distribution runs on the Macintosh, Windows, Linux, and Unix machines, using the same packages and fonts on all of these platforms
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
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
More Packages - MacTeX - TeX Users Group This page is for people who want to try out TeX or LaTeX, but may decide not to use it They want an installation which contains everything needed to immediately write and typeset a document, without searching for other pieces of software
Installing TeX Live over the Internet - TeX Users Group Installing TeX Live over the Internet TeX Live 2025 was released on March 8, 2025 For typical needs, we recommend starting the TeX Live installation by downloading (these links go to mirrors) install-tl-windows exe for Windows (~20mb), or install-tl-unx tar gz (~5mb) for everything else