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Are there newsgroups, forums, FAQs, and other sites that provide quality information on TeX, LaTeX and friends? Are all of these in English, or is there one in "my language of choice"?

Stefan Kottwitz
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  • What is your "language of choice"? – Caramdir Jul 31 '10 at 20:30
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    I think this question is borderline to be closed, almost too general (indeed, which language, are we going to list all resources in all languages?) In any case, it should be made a community wiki. – Juan A. Navarro Aug 12 '10 at 19:44
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    There's this one site called something like "tex.stackexchange.com" or something? I've heard that's pretty good... – Seamus Aug 12 '10 at 20:52
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    I think that this should be community wiki, and Stefan's answer should be accepted so that it stays at the top. – Andrew Stacey Aug 13 '10 at 14:45

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Newsgroups:

Web forums:

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):

  • TeX FAQ: FAQ sponsored by the UK TeX Users Group, formerly maintained by Robin Fairbairns
  • The Visual LaTeX FAQ: formatting samples available through a hyperlink interface
  • MacTeX FAQ: Mac OS X specific questions and answers
  • AMS FAQ: FAQ for AMS-LaTeX, primarily for AMS authors, but also dealing with amsmath and with LaTeX in general
  • de-tex-faq: FAQ of the German TeX user group DANTE e.V.
  • Picture FAQ: How to Include Pictures, in German

Software and Package Archives and Catalogues:

Wikis:

Mailing lists:

User group sites:

Blogs:

Distributions - where to get a complete TeX system:

  • TeX Live: TeX system for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and Windows
  • MiKTeX: user-friendly TeX system for Windows
  • proTeXt: easy-to-install distribution for Windows, based on MiKTeX
  • MacTeX: TeX Live customized for Mac OS X with useful additions

Editors:

Viewers:

Friends: - Software related to TeX and LaTeX

Stefan Kottwitz
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    Nice, complete list (I was half-way through voting for lots of other answers when I spotted this one!) – Joseph Wright Aug 12 '10 at 19:03
  • One thing that is mssing is the german LaTeX forum at mrunix.de (http://mrunix.de/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=38). – lockstep Aug 13 '10 at 14:37
  • The mrunix forum is great. I just did not include LaTeX subforums (mrunix is a general programmers forum) but LaTeX dedicated forums. More such subforums are listed here: http://texblog.net/latex-link-archive/board-forum-group/ – Stefan Kottwitz Aug 13 '10 at 14:56
  • mrunix-LaTeX is only a subforum, but its topics account for about 60% of mrunix.de. Also, it has (at the moment) about 10 times the content of golatex.de. – lockstep Aug 13 '10 at 18:56
  • That is one hell of a list. Very good work! – Bran the Blessed Aug 19 '10 at 19:25
  • I have new package idea, but can't implement it. Where or whom should I tell the idea to implement the idea? – alhelal Oct 07 '17 at 00:45
  • @alhelal You could post it do a discussion forum, where people can talk about it. For example: LaTeX.org. In that case I can also blog about it, many programmers read blogs via feed readers or collectors. Or you write yourself a blog post on TeX-talk.net. – Stefan Kottwitz Oct 07 '17 at 08:11
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http://wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

And you can even help improving it yourself :)

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The TeX FAQ, where you'll the answer to what you're looking for surprisingly often.

barbara beeton
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For drawing figures using TikZ texample is a great resource for examples, complete with code.

Sharpie
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The two big ones are http://www.latex-community.org/ and http://tug.org/.
And the site you're on right now, of course!

Larry Wang
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The #latex IRC channel on freenode.net has some extremely knowledgeable people on it.

Niall Murphy
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Ladies and Gentlemen!

Without further ado we proudly present

the very best resource for TeX and friends:

texdoc <packagename>

on a commandline.

This is it. There is nothing better.

Keks Dose
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One of my favourite books on LaTeX is 'The LaTeX companion'. It has the whole 3rd chapter 113 pages freely online (See: full text of chapter 3). The typography is also excellent.

Leo Liu
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No one has talked about "Friends" so far :-)

For ConTeXt, the ConTeXt wiki is pretty useful

Aditya
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For LaTeX the way it's used by linguists, there is http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/clmt/latex4ling/

Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson
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For philosophers and others in the humanities there is the PhilTeX blog and the PhilTeX forum.

frabjous
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There are also options on usenet: the newsgroups comp.text.tex, fr.comp.text.tex (French), de.comp.text.tex (German) are also places where questions can be asked. Moreover, announcements about new and updated packages are also sent there.

equaeghe
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German resources for LuaTeX: http://www.luatex.de/ressourcen/

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A good website to take the first steps with LaTeX is https://www.learnlatex.org/

It is currently available in the following languages:

  • Català (Catalan)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • English (English)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Français (French)
  • मराठी (Marathi)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
CarLaTeX
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