TeX publications

A short list of selected publications about TeX.

• TUGboat: The Communications of the TeX Users Group.
• List of all TeX journals, by user group.
• Books about TeX and typography, reviews, etc.
• Documentation of all TeX Live packages.
• TeXniques: occasional publications on specific topics or conference proceedings.

A few articles about TeX, published in other journals:

• Craft beautiful equations in Word with LaTeX, by David Matthews, Nature, vol.570, pp.263–264, 13 June 2019.
• The lingua franca of LaTeX, by Poornima Apte, Increment issue 9: Open Source, May 2019.
• TeX: A branch of desktop publishing evolution, Parts 1 and 2, by Barbara Beeton, Karl Berry, and David Walden. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.
  Part 1: vol.40, no.3, pp.78–93, July–Sept. 2018.
  Part 2: vol.41, no.2, pp.29–41, April–June 2019.
  Preprints and additional material.
• Communication of mathematics with TeX, by Barbara Beeton and Richard Palais. Visible Language vol.50, no.2, pp.40–51, August 2016.
• The TeX family in 2009, by Jim Hefferon and Karl Berry. Notices of the AMS, vol.56, no.3, pp.348–354, March 2009.
• Do Open Source Developers Respond to Competition? The (La)TeX Case Study, by Alexia Gaudeul, Review of Network Economics, vol.6, no.2, pp.239–263, June 2007.

Journals with occasional articles about TeX:

• Visible Language, a long-time journal on communications, text, and typography. Open access.
• EP-ODD (Electronic Publishing—Origination, Dissemination and Design), published from 1988–1995, had several articles related to TeX and other topics of interest. Indexes, contents, samples.

Some theses related to TeX:

• Micro-typographic extensions to the TeX typesetting system, Hàn Thế Thành, Masaryk University Brno, October 2000. Reprinted as TUGboat vol.21, no.4, pp.317–434.
• Digitized Brush Trajectories, John Hobby, Stanford University, August 1985.
• Word Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-put-er, Frank Liang, Stanford University, August 1983.
• Optimal Pagination Techniques for Automatic Typesetting Systems, Michael Plass, Stanford University, June 1981.

Books published by the TeX Users Group:

• Glisterings: LaTeX and Other Oddments (2009), 27 columns on LaTeX and other topics, by Peter Wilson,
• TeX's 2⁵ Anniversary: A Commemorative Collection (2010), a hardcover book of selected articles from TUGboat by Donald Knuth and other members of the original Stanford TeX project, with a foreword by Barbara Beeton and drawings by Duane Bibby.
• TeX People: Interviews from the world of TeX (2009), a book of more than fifty interviews from the TUG Interview Corner.
• The TUG publications committee discusses books or other publication projects undertaken by TUG. We welcome inquiries about additional publications, such as manuals, instructional materials, documentation, or works on any other topic that might be useful to the TeX community in general.

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