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LaTeX toolkit

A curated list of tools and resources for working with LaTeX, a typesetting system used to format documents.

Curated list of LaTeX awesomeness

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Awesome LaTeX / Distributions
MacTeX Most common LaTeX distribution for macOS, basically TeXLive with some Mac-specific tools added
TeX Live Most common LaTeX distribution for Unix-like operating systems, including GNU/Linux. Also works on Windows
MikTeX Most common LaTeX distribution for Windows, but also available for Mac, Linux or as Docker image

Awesome LaTeX / Docker Images
reitzig/texlive-docker 26 11 months ago minimal TeXLive system with package installation possibility
Island of TeX/texlive debian-based full TeXLive system
dante-ev/docker-texlive 97 about 1 year ago debian-based full TeXLive system with additions with pandoc, perl, and python pre-installed

Awesome LaTeX / Engines
pdfTeX TeX compiler that produces PDF files immediately instead of DVI files (nowadays, this is the standard compiler for many users)
XeTeX TeX compiler that provides better unicode and font support than TeX/pdfTeX (i.e. you can use the fonts of your operating system instead of only TeX fonts)
LuaTeX (La)TeX compiler that supports Lua code for scripting and has improved unicode and font support than standard TeX/pdfTeX
tectonic Modern, self contained (La)TeX compiler powered by XeTeX and TeXLive

Awesome LaTeX / Engines / LaTeX formulas on the web
Auto-LaTeX Equations with Google Docs Render high-quality math equations directly in Google Docs
MathJaX JavaScript engine to render mathematical formulas on the web. The outcome looks really slick
mimeTeX mimeTeX is a rather old tool to render LaTeX formulas to PNG figures for your web site, without actually needing a LaTeX installation on your server
mathTeX mathTeX is the successor of mimeTeX: it produces nicer-looking images but it requires LaTeX to be installed on your server
KaTeX KaTeX is a math rendering library made by Khan Academy focusing on fast load times. All output is processed as plain HTML instead of fixed images
Franklin.jl Static site generator with KaTeX support, code evaluation, LaTeX-like commands and optional pre-rendering, in Julia
xhub 94 11 months ago Browser extension that lets you use LaTeX in GitHub pages

Awesome LaTeX / Editors
List of popular LaTeX editors Community-maintained list of popular LaTeX editors including a screenshot and a short description

Awesome LaTeX / Editors / LaTeX-focused
Kile Great LaTeX editor originally from the Linux/KDE community. It runs fine on Windows and macOS as well
TeXMaker Pretty good alternative to Kile
TeXStudio Cross-platform LaTeX editor that stems from TeXMaker
WinEdt The LaTeX editor many people swear by. Only for
TeXnicCenter Quite old but free and decent editor for LaTeX
LyX Cross-platform WYSIWYM editor that uses LaTeX behind the scenes to render documents
TeXShop No-nonsense editor for LaTeX documents which is included in MacTeX
TeXWorks No-nonsense editor for LaTeX code, modeled after TeXShop, but this one is cross-platform
BakomaTex Commercial LaTeX editor that allows to edit your document both using its source code and WYSIWYG
Texifier Commercial LaTeX editor for macOS and iOS, with excellent features (document overview, synchronised PDF display, autocompletion, sync across devices, etc.) that never get in the way of writing

Awesome LaTeX / Editors / General purpose text editors
LaTeXTools Atom port of the Sublime Text package of the same name
LaTeXing 78 over 6 years ago Free plug-in to edit LaTeX
LaTeXTools 2,010 almost 2 years ago Free LaTeX plugin for Sublime Text
AucTeX Emacs plugin for LaTeX that also shows a preview of equations and figures
RefTeX Emacs plugin for LaTeX that adds support for labels, references, and citations
Vim-LaTeX
LaTeX Live Preview 833 about 2 years ago Instantly previews your LaTeX document
vimtex 5,606 11 months ago Modern vim plugin for editing LaTeX files. Has a variety of features including live preview and forward search
TeXiFy-IDEA 908 11 months ago Free LaTeX plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
LaTeX Workshop 10,818 11 months ago LaTeX extension for Visual Studio Code
LTeX LanguageTool grammar/spell checking
a-nau/latex-devcontainer 20 over 2 years ago Devcontainer setup for easy LaTeX usage without local installation

Awesome LaTeX / Editors / Online editors
List of popular online LaTeX editors Community-maintained list of popular online LaTeX editor including equation editors
Authorea Online editor with built-in git support and bibliography tools
ShareLaTeX Has pretty great LaTeX documentation and simple version control
Overleaf Online editor, also with a WYSIWYM editor and git support
WebLaTeX 1,072 over 1 year ago Web-based vscode with Git Integration + Copilot + Grammar & Spell Checker + Live Collaboration Support based on GitHub Codespace and Dev container
Papeeria Online editor with built-in git support
JaxEdit Online LaTeX editor with Live Preview and nice presentation mode

Awesome LaTeX / Bibliography tools
JabRef Very powerful cross-platform (Java) bibtex editor
Papis 1,426 11 months ago Extremely customizable, powerful and simple cross-platform (Python) library manager. It has a very complete Command-Line-Interface, several GUIs and scripting capability
Bibdesk Great bibliography editor for
Zotero Reference manager for your browser that also exports to bibtex and integrates with many LaTeX editors
Mendeley Both an app and cloud client to manage your references and PDFs. Can sync out to a bibtex file for your LaTeX workflow
betterbib 820 about 1 year ago Command-line utility for improving your BibTeX files. Fetches information from online sources

Awesome LaTeX / Build Tools
Arara ( ) - Simple tool that allows you to specify which tools to call inside your document and it can be extended quite easily
latexmk Build tool that is the commonly used by many LaTeX editors (LaTeXing, TeXShop, etc.) to build your LaTeX files

Awesome LaTeX / Build Tools / GitHub Actions
xu-cheng/latex-action 1,155 over 1 year ago GitHub Action to compile LaTeX documents
dante-ev/latex-action 178 over 2 years ago DANTE e.V.'s GitHub action to compile LaTeX documents. Offers a full TeXLive and pre-installed perl and python

Awesome LaTeX / Misc. Tools
CaTeX 10 almost 3 years ago Concatenates LaTeX documents with attention for properly merging the preamble
Pandoc This program converts almost any document format (LaTeX, DOC, markdown, etc.) to almost any other format. A great tool to aid workflows where multiple formats are used

Awesome LaTeX / Misc. Tools / Quality Check Tools
ChkTeX Linter / code checker for LaTeX documents
blacktex 151 almost 2 years ago Command-line tool that replaces commonly occurring LaTeX anti-patterns and cleans up your files
TeXtidote 945 11 months ago A cross-platform (Java) spelling, grammar and style checker for LaTeX documents

Awesome LaTeX / Misc. Tools / Tools centered around equations
Codecogs Eqn Editor Online LaTeX equation editor that allows you to produce figures containing an equation
EqualX Graphical LaTeX formula editor
KLaTeXFormula Cross-platform alternative for LaTeXit
Laeqed Crossplatform LaTeX formula to PNG convertor
LaTeXEqEdit LaTeX formula editor for Windows
LaTeXiT LaTeXit is an equation editor that makes it easy to drag-and-drop rendered equations (as PDF, PNG, etc.) into your non-LaTeX documents on the Mac
pix2tex LaTeX OCR

Awesome LaTeX / LaTeX-compatible GUI tools
TikzEdt (also: ) - WYSIWYG and text-based editor for TikZ pictures
TikZ-Editor 185 over 1 year ago Live-previewing editor for TikZ figures
IPE Drawing tool that integrates well with LaTeX commands and documents
GeoGebra Cross-platform geometry tool with output to TikZ
Dia Cross-platform diagramming tool that can export to PSTricks and MetaPost code
TikZiT GUI tool for creating graphs and string diagrams using PGF/TikZ
LaTeXDraw Vector-based drawing tool having LaTeX as first-class citizen

Awesome LaTeX / Packages
CTAN The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network is the place to look for useful packages and documentation

Awesome LaTeX / Packages / References
Cross-reference packages explained Elaboration on cross-reference packages (cleveref, varioref, theoremref, nameref, etc.): Which to use, which conflict?

Awesome LaTeX / Packages / Tables
Excel2LaTeX Excel (2010 and older) macros to produce LaTeX code
csv2latex Converts CSV files from your favorite programs to LaTeX s
Tables Generator This website provides a graphical interface to input your table and produces properly-formatted code for LaTeX, Markdown, HTML, etc
pgfplotstable This package displays numerical tables rounded to desired precision in various display formats. It can even read CSV files to include directly in your LaTeX document

Awesome LaTeX / Packages / Graphics
TeXample Blog about LaTeX, with a big collection of TikZ figures
LaTeX en SI Useful website with some custom packages to draw special plots (Bode, Nyquist, electrical schematics, block schematics, etc.) using TikZ. Note that everything is in French
pgfplots Truly awesome plotting library on top of and in the style of TikZ/pgf. This library can load in CSV data files, perform some calculations and create beautiful plots
A very minimal introduction to TikZ (PDF) Short introductory document to the world of TikZ, written by Jacques Crémer
PetarV-/TikZ 1,296 over 2 years ago Collection of publication-ready PGF/TikZ figures by Petar Veličković
matlab2tikz 1,577 about 2 years ago Convert your MATLAB plots to PGFPlots/TikZ
tikzplotlib 2,444 about 1 year ago Convert your matplotlib plots to PGFPlots/TikZ
TikZBlog Step-by-Step Tutorials about How to Draw Illustrations in LaTeX

Awesome LaTeX / Packages / Source Code
minted The minted package uses to generate the listings. In this way, LaTeX is able to format more than 300 programming and markup languages and other text formats

Awesome LaTeX / Packages / Typography
microtype This package improves the appearance of your documents by enabling margin kerning and font expansion

Awesome LaTeX / Packages / Presentations, Slides
nics An opinionated alternative to Beamer, that we created with the hopes to make common tasks very easy and beautifully rendered by default. Has awesome documentation and a detailed cheatsheet to help you getting started

Awesome LaTeX / Templates
LaTeX templates Collection of templates for papers, posters, resumés, theses, books, presentations, … for LaTeX
Ultimate Beamer Theme List 1,377 12 months ago Links to various beamer themes along with PDF previews
LaTeX Beamer Theme Overview 35 over 1 year ago Visual overview of beamer themes included in TeXLive

Awesome LaTeX / Symbols
Comprehensive LaTeX symbol list Very extensive list of symbols for LaTeX. Available in and sizes
Detexify You draw the symbol and this site/app will tell you the LaTeX command

Awesome LaTeX / Resources
TUG The TeX User Group is a way to get in touch with other (La)TeX users
TeXDoc Online interface to the utility to browse LaTeX packages and documentation
Dickimaw Books: LaTeX resources Great overview of resources useful for LaTeX
LaTeX cookbook Sibling of TeXample, contains quite a bit of example code
Visual FAQ Typesetting issues and a link to appropriate TeX FAQ answers
MartinThoma's LaTeX example 1,608 about 1 year ago GitHub repository containing example LaTeX documents
LaTeX community Forum about LaTeX
Neue TeX FAQ German: - Modern and updated LaTeX FAQ in German
BibTeX Style Examples Example output of common BibTeX styles (BST files)
TeX World Websites supported by the TeX Users Group, DANTE, and GUTenberg
TeXnique A LaTeX Typesetting Game

Awesome LaTeX / Showcases
Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX & friends Set of examples demonstrating the power of LaTeX
Showcase of beautiful invitations in TeX Showcase of invitations typeset using LaTeX
Showcase of "programming your document" paradigm Collection of LaTeX documents demonstrating how LaTeX can be used like a programming language
TUG: TeX showcase Website from the TUG that shows some examples of what LaTeX can do
Awesome LaTeX drawing 1,352 11 months ago Curated list of academic drawing examples for using LaTeX

Awesome LaTeX / Tutorials
LearnLaTeX.org Browser-based LaTeX tutorial
The (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e Very comprehensive introduction to LaTeX
Begin LaTeX in minutes 3,287 almost 5 years ago Brief intro to LaTeX for beginners that helps you use LaTeX with ease
Getting to Grips with LaTeX Complete guide going through the majority of things you need to know about LaTeX
LaTeX introductions in languages other than English Collection of introductions in many languages

Awesome LaTeX / Books
Wikibooks: LaTeX The LaTeX wikibook. Not really a paper book, but it is equally extensive
The LaTeX Companion, F. Mittelbach (2004)
LaTeX Graphics Companion, M. Goossens (2007)
TeX by Topic (2007)
TeX for the Impatient (2020)
Formatting Information (2020) This is the HTML5-based online version of the book . It has been continuously updated since the early 2000s

Awesome LaTeX / Blogs
TeXblog Blog about LaTeX and everything related
texblog.org Blog on LaTeX and related topics (tutorials, packages, code snippets, etc.)
TeX Talk Blog for the TeX Stack Exchange site with news and interviews
TeX Hour A weekly video meeting

Awesome LaTeX / Social media
LinkedIn: TeX/LaTeX User Group
Twitter: @TeXtip Tips related to (La)TeX by
TeX.StackExchange StackExchange TeX section
TopAnswers TeX a free and open source Q&A site for TeX and friends

Awesome LaTeX / Legend
macOS
GNU/Linux
Microsoft Windows
Free Open-Source Software

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