T_EX Resources on the Internet

Last modified: 24 July 2026

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Typesetting with TeX [PDF presentation]
Basic TeX Rules - short and sweet (2 pages) summary of TeX
Getting Started with TeX, LaTeX, and friends - from the TeX User's Group (TUG)
A Gentle Introduction to TeX - longer (96 pages) and easier to understand introduction to TeX
Learning LaTeX: a course in LaTeX, an on-line course from the University of Birmingham School of Mathematics and Statistics.
Getting Started with LaTeX , an on-line tutorial by David R. Wilkins at Trinity College, Dublin.
TeX summarized in the Wikipedia
Get started with CTAN, Comprehensive TeX Archive Network

A Plain TeX format with macros intended mainly for physicists, but useful to many more

A LaTeX class for manuscripts intended for th journals of the American Physical Society

REVT_EX 4 Home Page
Installing TeX, LaTeX, and REVTeX on your own computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux)
REVT_EX Documentation
- REVT_EX 4 Author's Guide: [PostScript] [PDF]
- REVT_EX 4 Summary [PostScript] [PDF]
- REVT_EX 4 Sample Paper [PostScript] [PDF] [TeX]
Vassar Physics 201 sample paper (zip package) modlab.zip and shorter sample templates vjmp-template.tex and vjmp-template.bib

CTAN is the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network

CTAN Home Page - not a direct server, but it will help you find things in the CTAN hierarchy, and then help you find the closest mirror or server.
CTAN server at Cambridge, England (also an ftp server)
CTAN in Germany (Dante)
CTAN server from TUG
The TeX Catalogue Online from Graham Williams, CSIRO Australia

Pdfmarks: Links and Forms
PDF FAQ from Los Alamos
HyperTeX info from Los Alamos
TeX and PDF from Y & Y.
PDF utilities: index from Purdue
tth: a T_EX to HTML translator
pstoedit
dvips source from CTAN. Versions of dvips after 5.60 can (supposedly) write hyper-postscript output, which can then be distilled into pdf.