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.
• The journal 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.

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:

• 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.

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