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Editor's Choice LaTeX and TeX Web Sites

Following is a selection of LaTeX and TeX web sites that PracTeX Journal editors recommend. If we missed your favorite site let us know.

Paul Blaga

• Enrico Gregorio's page (in Italian) contains a very good introduction to programming in TeX and LaTeX, a description of the most often used packages and an impressive list of LaTeX "horrors" and how to avoid them, as well as other goodies (everything is in Italian, mi dispiace).
  • Enrico Gregorio's page

• The homepage of the Italian TUG (GUIT) has, also, a lot of information and a forum. Everything is, again, in Italian.
  • Italian TUG homepage

• A French wiki book on LaTeX programming
  • Programmation LaTeX

Lance Carnes

• Andrew Roberts's online tutorial for LaTeX beginners has been a favorite of mine since I discovered it a few years ago.
  • Andrew Roberts online LaTeX tutorials
• Juergen Fenn maintains a topical list of LaTeX packages that links to Graham Williams's TeX Catalogue. A great resource if you are looking to add some style to your LaTeX documents. (See also Juergen's list of LaTeX guides).
  • Juergen Fenn's topical list of LaTeX packages
• Robin Fairbairns maintains an excellent set of articles on all aspects of TeX and LaTeX. Whenever I google a LaTeX topic this site is usually within the top five hits.
  • TeX Frequently Asked Questions
• Lance's other LaTeX web sites

Francisco (Rei) Reinaldo

• These two sites are optimal candidates to help readers break the ice with TeX.
  • TeX and LaTeX for PCs (Windows OS)
  • Getting Started with LaTeX

• If PDF is a standardised pattern file that mixes (tex)t and images, how does it work? Are you curious? Thom Parker shows how at:
  • Navigating the Internal Structure of a PDF Document

• In this concise site, Guilherme P. de Freitas shows how easy it is to write a TeX document.
  • Introdução ao LaTeX em 4 aulas (Portuguese)

• This site contains the A-Z of LaTeX Writing.
  • A (La)TeX encyclopaedia

• Paul A Jolly shares in his site some LaTeX Tips and Tricks for intermediate LaTeX users.
  • LaTeX Tips and Tricks

• This site contains a huge repository of answered LaTeX questions.
  • TeX, LaTeX, etc.: Frequently Asked Questions with Answers

• Sometimes, free tools for converting documents into other formats may help users save time. This site shows how they work.
  • Writer2LaTeX, Writer2BibTeX

Yuri Robbers

• Didier Verna's blog on — among other things — LaTeX. This blog offers many a gem of LaTeX coding.
  • Didier Verna's blog

• The documentation for XeTeX and XeLaTeX is still rather rudimentary at best, but the XeTeX mailing list is a veritable gold mine of information. Subscribe to ask your questions or just search the archives.
  • XeTeX mailing list

• The LaTeX Font Catalogue gives a good overview of fonts that are well supported by LaTeX. It includes free fonts as well as commercial fonts for which good LaTeX support exists.
  • The LaTeX Font Catalogue

• And one more blog — this time Stefan Kottwitz's TeXblog — with some very nice pieces of code and some useful solutions for (in)famous TeX and LaTeX puzzles.
  • TeXblog by Stefan Kottwitz

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