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Getting started with TeX, LaTeX, and friends - TeX Users Group
What's going on here? 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.
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TeX Live - TeX Users Group
It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors of Unix, including GNU/Linux and macOS, and also Windows. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages around the world.
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TeX Users Group (TUG)
TUG is a not-for-profit organization by, for, and of its members, also representing the interests of TeX users worldwide. If you use any TeX-related programs (TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, Metafont, MetaPost, Texinfo, et al.), please consider joining TUG (or another TeX user group).
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TeXworks
The TeXworks project is an effort to build a simple TeX front-end program (working environment) that will be available for all today's major desktop operating systems—in particular, MS Windows (7/8/8.1/10/11), typical GNU/Linux distros and other X11-based systems, as well as macOS.
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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.
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Windows - TeX Live - TeX Users Group
The TeX Live Launcher takes care of the Windows-specific items in case TeX Live is already present, e.g. on a network share. Configuration takes place when a user runs the launcher for the first time, and Start menu shortcuts are replaced with controls within the launcher itself.
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TeX Resources on the Web - TeX Users Group
It has an export to TeX option, meaning that it can be used either as a conversion tool or as a WYSIWYG Bengali TeX editor. CSTeX, LaTeX and plain TeX support for Czech and Slovak users, including special fonts.
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The TeX Live Guide—2025
This document mainly describes TeX Live itself. TeX Live includes executables for TeX, LaTeX2e, ConTeXt, Metafont, MetaPost, BibTeX and many other programs; an extensive collection of macros, fonts and documentation; and support for typesetting in many different scripts from around the world.
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Installing TeX Live over the Internet - TeX Users Group
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.
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Quick install - TeX Live - TeX Users Group
It boils down to either getting the DVD from a TeX user group (ideally by becoming a member), or downloading in various ways. Except on Windows, your system must provide a standard Perl installation with the usual core modules.