The TEX Family in 2008 Jim Hefferon , Karl Berry
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M athematicians know TEX as a standard tool. Along with associated programs such as LTEX and BibTEX it allows working professionals to produce documents of journal quality, without first having to become expert at the intricacies of typography. We will highlight some of the exciting recent developments in the TEX family of programs. We will not aim the presentation towards TEX experts. Rather, as long as you are comfortable producing your own documents in TEX, or perhaps are a beginner interested in learning, you should find here some information that you can use. Our discussion will concentrate on things that are available today or are in a late stage of development. You may know that TEX has been in some way frozen by its creator. How can there be big changes? Today’s executable TEX programs can still give output conforming to the standard, and can still process documents made years ago. The freeze was done in a way that allows developers to adapt TEX to changes in the world of document production. In addition, people in the TEX community have developed other programs of interest, such as graphical front-ends to make writing a document easier.
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