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What research papers exist about TeX and friends?
Some time ago there was a question on this site Are there any open research problems in the world of TeX?
In a similar spirit, I'd like to ask, whether there are any research articles out there in ...
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All uses of LaTeX (I never use LaTeX except for ...)
I am designing a comical T-shirt about LaTeX and I would like it to boast about all the purposes that one can use LaTeX for. I started with
I never use LaTEX except for typesetting documents.
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Are there any open research problems in the world of TeX?
For a year-long capstone project in computer science, I have to do some 'original research.' I'm still not entirely sure what this entails, but it just struck me that perhaps I can do research and ...
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Alternatives to LaTeX
Are there any professional alternatives to TeX/LaTeX which produce equal or even better typesetting? Maybe expensive commercial ones. The software counts if it is comparable or superior to LaTeX (...
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Cunning (La)TeX tricks
Writing (La)TeX code sometimes requires a degree of guile. Here (in no particular order) are two of my favourite examples.
Macros ending with spaces
Pete asked how to see the implementation of \...
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Most significant reasons that led us to (La)TeX
Looking back, what really convinced you to begin writing with TeX or LaTeX?
This question is "community wiki", so there's no reputation to lose or to gain.
Please don't write advantages of TeX and ...
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What professions use TeX/LaTeX besides CS?
TeX and LaTeX are widely used in Computer Science. What other academic disciplines or professionals use it?