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%% Engine needed: luaTeX ≥ 0.63
%% Format needed: LaTeX2ε
%% Packages needed: see list in the -aux.tex file …
%% just use an up-to-date TeXlive2010 and the lualatex program to typeset
% this document has version number 0.1b
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\input{tex-overview-aux} %% everything that is not content-related
\title{An overview of \TeX, its children\\ and their friends~\dots}
\author{Arno Trautmann\thanks{arno.trautmann@gmx.de}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
{\centering \large \hyperref[textextview]{Link for the impatient.}\\[2ex]}
In the world of \TeX, there are many developments and ambiguous names. This paper tries to give an overview of the development of \TeX\ and related programs. Contributions are welcome!\footnote{The current source of this document is availble at \url{http://github.com/alt/tex-overview}. Please feel free to patch there or mail me any suggestions and comments. I'll be happy to extend and correct this document!}\\
\end{abstract}
\section{Introduction}
The base frame and main idea of this document was taken from the article \textsf{A brief history of \TeX,~volume~II} by Arthur Reutenauer in the proceedings of \textsf{EuroBacho\TeX 2007} and his talk there (see references). Additional information is taken from original documentations (see references on page \pageref{sec:refs}) and some review articles. For old, historic information, the \textsf{historic archive} maintained by Ulrik Vieth and hosted on \url{ftp.tug.org} (see refs) was very useful. Many thanks for that great archive!
All information is up to the date of this generated pdf. Everything here is without guarantee – this is just to get an overview. Consult the references for further (and/or correct) information!
In the tree views (page \pageref{sec:tree}), every node has a tooltip that shows up when you hover the mouse over it. If your pdf viewer does not support this, go to the end of the document, where every tooltip is written in normal text (page \pageref{sec:text}).
\clearpage
I tried to make the graphs more readable by using colors. All decisions reflect my personal opinion, not that of the community, of the authors or someone else.
\begin{description}
\item[{\let\nodecolor\normalimportant \tikz \node[coolnode]{normal};}] That is, not very important in my opinion, no huge user group, but still maybe important for special needs. Was in use at least some time back, but is not of great impact nowadays.
\item[{\let\nodecolor\vip \tikz \node[coolnode]{important};}] Engines or formats that had or have a great impact on (everyday) typesetting for a large community.
\item[{\let\nodecolor\experimental \tikz \node[coolnode]{experimental};}] Developments that might still be under construction or were never used by a large community. Nevertheless, these might be very important to the development of other engines or for use of special typesetting.
\item[{\let\nodecolor\package \tikz \node[coolnode]{package};}] \LaTeX-packages that seemed worth mentioning. There won't be many of this. Not-included packages are not necessarily unimportant!
\item[{\let\nodecolor\distro \tikz \node[coolnode]{distribution};}] Software bundles that bring \TeX\ and friends to the normal user.
\item[{\let\nodecolor\program \tikz \node[coolnode]{program};}] Programs that are not directly connected to \TeX\ (but interesting in the context of using \TeX) or are separate helper programs.
\end{description}
Furthermore, there are two versions of some graphs: A short version mentioning only the most important things and a full one with everything I could find.
In most cases I did not mention the authors of the programs/packages. This is not to diminish their effort but only for clarity (long names make things harder to read). I did not write any of the below-mentioned programs or packages. The authors are given in the documents linked in the references.
\section{How to contribute}
I hope one day this document would become the standard reference for questions like ”What program do I need for …?“, ”What's the difference between ...\TeX\ and ...\TeX?“, ”Why is it called …?“ etc.
To get to this point, I need some help of people having read more documentation or even developed some of the programs mentioned here themselves. Special help is needed for:
\begin{itemize}
\item font technologies
\item METAFONT and succesors
\item Bib\TeX\ and successors/alternatives
\end{itemize}
It is up to you to contribute texts, references, links, descriptions, hints etc. I'll be happy about anything I can add here. Also, if you have suggestions about the layout, let me know.
\section{Problems with pdf viewers}
As this document makes heavy use of pdf-features, some pdf viewers are not able to show everything correct and as intended. My experiences with viewers are as follows:
\begin{description}
\item[evince] Shows the document correct and complete. Tested using Linux.
\item[Acrobat Reader] will show all the information but might hide some text of very long tooltips (at least that's the case on my machine). Also, it draws annoying green boxes around the tooltips which do not belong there.
\item[TeXworks] The built-in pdf viewer of the TeXworks editor does not break lines of tooltips, therefore long annotations are not shown completely.
\item[okular] also does not break the lines.
\item[xpdf] shows only very short tooltips. Most of the information is not visible in the graphs.
\end{description}
\clearpage
\twocolumn
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
\newgeometry{margin=1cm} %% to save space
\NewDocumentCommand{\typesetwholecontent}{}{ %% begin all stuff
\clearpage
\part{Tree Views}
\overviewsection[\TeX]{\TeX\ – the program}
\label{sec:tree}
\Large
\centering
%%% TEX %%%
\begin{tikzpicture}
\label{textextview}
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\tonode[\experimental](omega2)(0,\layer)<A short-time try to pick up the development of Omega again in 2006. Seemed more like a good plan and is now regarded as obsolete. LuaTeX is kind of a successor.>{$\Omega_2$};
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\todraw(etex)(vtex)
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\tonode[\experimental](aleph)(1,\layer)<Originally named epsilon-Omega, an attempt to stabilize Omega while merging epsilon extensions. Authors: John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous, now maintained for severe bugfixes by Taco Hoekwater.>{$\aleph$ (Aleph)};
\todraw(omega)(aleph)
\todraw(etex)(aleph)
\tonode[\vip](xetex)(8,\layer)<This extension enables full multilingual support for left-to-right typesetting, right-to-left and almost any other possible direction. Unicode encoding is fully supported (utf8 as native encoding). XeTeX also features support for OpenType and AAT-fonts. In newest versions, character protrusion is possible -- hence the connection to pdfTeX.>{\XeTeX};
\todraw(texgx)(xetex)
\todraw*(etex)(xetex)
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\todraw(etex)(extex)
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\tonode[\vip](pdfetex)(5,\layer)<Merging the pdfTeX engine with the eTeX-extensions. This engine can produce dvi (with or without the eTeX-extensions) as well as pdf (again, with or without extensions).>{pdf($\epsilon$)-\TeX};
\todraw*(etex)(pdfetex)
\todraw*(pdftex)(pdfetex)
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\tonode[\experimental](eetex)(6,\layer)<Experimental extension to pdfeTeX by Taco Hoekwater, created 2000. Distributed as change file. Now dead due to his development of luaTeX.>{ee\TeX};
\todraw(pdfetex)(eetex)
\steplayer[-2]
\tonode[\program](lua)(0,\layer)<Script language; has nothing to do with TeX!>{Lua};
\tonode[\vip](luatex)(4,\layer)<LuaTeX supports utf8, OpenType and totally everything. TeXlive 2010 ships version 0.60.2. luaTeX features an embedded scripting language, lua, making it easy to extend, so most of the programming can be done in lua instead of TeX-hackery.>{lua\TeX};
\todraw(aleph)(luatex)
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\tonode[\experimental](itex)(7,\layer)<iTeX is the official successor of TeX3, announced by Don Knuth at the TUG conference 2010.>{i\TeX};
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\overviewsection[\LaTeX]{\LaTeX\ (Lamport's \TeX\ format)}
%%% LATEX %%%
\hspace*{-5em}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\tonode(latex090)(-5.5,\layer)<First version still on web (historic archive, see refs) is 0.9, for use with TeX 0.95. No installation help found. Apparently one needs the files lplain.tex and latex.tex to create the format.>{\LaTeX\ 0.9};
\steplayer
\tonode(latex091)(-2,\layer)<Version 0.91 for use with TeX 0.97 (C) 1983 by Leslie Lamport. Most changes to previous version are in the file lplain.tex.>{\LaTeX\ 0.91};
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\steplayer[-0.4]
\tonode(latex092)(2,\layer)<First version with the @ as letter for internal names. Seeminlgy first version with a manual. For use with TeX Version 0.999999. (no joke, that's the version number given in the latex.tex file!) (C) 1983 by Leslie Lamport, conversion to 0.92 from 0.91 by Arthur Keller.>{\LaTeX\ 0.92};
\todraw(latex091)(latex092)
\steplayer[-0.4]
\tonode(latex09210)(6,\layer)<Adaption of 0.92 for TeX version 1.0. (C) 1983 by Leslie Lamport, conversion to 0.92 from 0.91 by Arthur Keller.>{\LaTeX\ 0.92 - 1.0};
\todraw(latex092)(latex09210)
\steplayer[-1.8]
\tonode(latex2010)(-5,\layer)<Seemingly heavy changes compared to 0.92. Version for TeX 1.0. Release of 11 Dec 1983. There were never public versiaons 1.x >{\LaTeX\ 2.0 - 1.0};
\todraw(latex09210)(latex2010)
\steplayer[-.4]
\tonode(latex205)(0,\layer)<No sure information found so far.>{\LaTeX\ 2.05};
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\tonode(latex206a)(5,\layer)<Release of version 2.06a of the LaTeX macros. September 1984.>{\LaTeX\ 2.06a};
\todraw(latex205)(latex206a)
\steplayer[-2.3]
\tonode[\vip](latex209)(0,\layer)<The first official version by Leslie Lamport, 1985.>{\LaTeX\ 2.09};
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\tonode(slitex)(2,\layer)<A variation of LaTeX2.09 to provide an easy way for producing presentations. In LaTeX2e absorbed as a documentclass (slides).>{SLI\TeX};
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\tonode(amslatex11)(6,\layer)<A port of Spivak's AMS-TeX to LaTeX 2.09, released 1990>{\AMS\LaTeX\ 1.1};
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\tonode[\vip](latex2ε)(0,\layer)<June 1994: New release of LaTeX to avoid incompatible dialects of LaTeX 2.09. Introduced by the LaTeX3-Team.>{\LaTeXe};
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\todraw(latex2ε)(amslatex12)
\steplayer[-1.5]
\tonode[\vip](pdflatex)(2,\layer)<The standard LaTeX. If anyone talks about "LaTeX" it is nearly shure to be this package. pdfLaTeX2e produces pdf or dvi output.>{pdf\LaTeXe};
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\todraw'(latex2ε)(xelatex)
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\todraw(latex2ε)(lualatex)
\tonode(platex)(-4.6,\layer)<A LaTeX-bundle for the pTeX engine.>{p\LaTeXe}
\todraw(latex2ε)(platex)
\tonode[\experimental](lambda)(-6,\layer)<A LaTeX-package for the omega-engine.>{$\Lambda$}
\todraw(latex209)(lambda)
\steplayer[-1.5]
\tonode[\experimental](lamed)(-7.5,\layer)<A LaTeX-package for the aleph-engine.>{Lamed}
\todraw(lambda)(lamed)
\steplayer[-1]
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\todraw(latex25)(latex3)
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%%% CONTEXT %%%
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\todraw(mki)(mkii)
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\end{tikzpicture}
} %% end all stuff
%% and set it twice, with changing from short to full version
%% the text version below only comes in fully because there is no need for better overview
\typesetwholecontent
\ExplSyntaxNamesOn
\bool_gset_false:N\short
\ExplSyntaxNamesOff
\typesetwholecontent
\clearpage
\part{Others}
\overviewsection{Distributions}[\distro]
\parbox{\textwidth}{\normalsize
This section will feature the main distributions of \TeX\ and related programs. Of course, not every Linux Distribution's \TeX\ package can be listed here, but only official upstream distributions. So far, only \TeX live and Mik\TeX\ are listed, but I'll add others if they are/were important.
}
\ExplSyntaxOn
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\ExplSyntaxOff
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\steplayer
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\steplayer
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\todraw(tl2009)(tl2008)
\steplayer
\tonode(tl2010)(0,\layer)<Up to now, latest release of TeXlive.>{\TeX live2010}
\todraw(tl2010)(tl2009)
\tonode(tlcontrib)(5,\layer)<An extension of TeXlive that contains packages that TeXlive cannot hold because: not free, binary update, not on CTAN or intermediate release. Useable via the TeXlive manager.>{TLContrib}
\todraw.(tl2010)(tlcontrib)
\end{tikzpicture}
\overviewsubsection{Mik\TeX}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\tonode(mt)(0,\layer)<MikTeX is a TeX distribution originally for Windows only. Copyright by Christian Schenk goes back to 2001>{Mik\TeX}
\steplayer
\tonode(mt26)(0,\layer)<Windows only. featuring pdftex 1.40.4, mpost 1.000>{Mik\TeX\ 2.6}
\todraw(mt)(mt26)
\steplayer
\tonode(mt27)(0,\layer)<Windows only. featuring xetex 0.999.6, pdftex 1.40.9, mpost 1.005>{Mik\TeX\ 2.7}
\todraw(mt27)(mt26)
\steplayer
\tonode(mt28)(0,\layer)<Windows only. featuring xetex 0.9995.1, pdftex 1.40.10, mpost 1.005>{Mik\TeX\ 2.8}
\todraw(mt28)(mt27)
\steplayer
\tonode(mt29)(0,\layer)<Windows only (stable version). Beta version for GNU/Linux available. featuring xetex 0.9997.4, pdftex 1.40.11, LuaTeX 0.60.2, mpost 1.211>{Mik\TeX\ 2.9}
\todraw(mt29)(mt28)
\end{tikzpicture}
\overviewsubsection{W32\TeX}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\tonode(w32tex)(0,\layer)<A distributon to provide binaries for windows, with special support for Japanese. First version (up to the changelog): 2009/08/02. Still highly up-to-date.>{W32\TeX}
\end{tikzpicture}
\newpage
\overviewsection{Pandora's Box}[\program]
\parbox{\textwidth}{\normalsize
The following pages will be a hodge-podge of many things that are related to \TeX\ and used in the process of generating documents in different file formats, i.\,e. conversion tools, bibliography tools etc. Feel free to contribute, I'll choose case-by-case if I'll add something or won't include it. Text editors or viewers will \emph{not} be included!
}
\overviewsubsection[META*]{META*}
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\tonode(metafont)(0,\layer)<The program for creating the fonts originally used by TeX.>{METAFONT};
\steplayer
\tonode(metapost)(0,\layer)<A graphic generating program inspired by METAFONT. MetaPost can produce PostScript graphics as well as SVG.>{MetaPost};
\todraw(metapost)(metafont)
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\tonode(metafun)(0,\layer)<"MetaFun is Hans Hagen's extension to (or module for) the MetaPost language.">{MetaFun};
\todraw(metafun)(metapost)
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\overviewsubsection[Bib\TeX]{Bib\TeX}
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\tonode(bibtex)(0,0)<A helper program to generate a bibliography list.>{\BibTeX}
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\tonode(nbibtex)(4,\layer)<"NbibTeX helps authors take better advantage of BibTeX data" says the homepage.>{NbibTeX}
\todraw(nbibtex)(bibtex)
\steplayer[-0.5]
\tonode(bibtex8)(0,\layer)<The documentation says: "An 8-bit Implementation of BibTeX 0.99 with a Very Large Capacity">{\BibTeX8}
\todraw(bibtex8)(bibtex)
\steplayer
\tonode(bibtexu)(0,\layer)<A unicode-aware version of BibTeX>{\BibTeX u}
\todraw(bibtex8)(bibtexu)
\tonode(pybtex)(3,\layer)<A python implementation of BibTeX.>{Pybtex}
\todraw(pybtex)(bibtexu)
\steplayer
\tonode(biber)(0,\layer)<A cooler version of unicode-aware BibTeX, designed for (?) use with BibLaTeX>{biber}
\todraw(bibtexu)(biber)
\tonode[\package](biblatex)(3,\layer)<A LaTeX package as frontend for biber.>{Bib\LaTeX}
\todraw(biber)(biblatex)
\todraw(bibtexu)(biblatex)
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\overviewsubsection[(x)dvipdf(m)(x)]{(x)dvipdf(m)(x)}
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\tonode(dvipdf)(0,0)<Converts dvi files to pdf files.>{dvipdf};
\steplayer
\tonode(dvipdfm)(0,\layer)<Converts dvi files to pdf files. Does not build on dvipdf, but is an independent implementation.>{dvipdfm};
\steplayer
\tonode(dvipdfmx)(0,\layer)<Extended version of dvipdfm. Support for multi-byte encodings and more pdfTeX features. Still active. Combined work of dvipdfm-jpn and dvipdfm-kor.>{dvipdfmx};
\todraw(dvipdfm)(dvipdfmx)
\steplayer
\tonode(xdvipdfmx)(0,\layer)<Converts xdvi files produced by XeTeX to pdf files. Normally always executed after a XeTeX run, so the user won't notice that an xdvi document was created in between.>{xdvipdfmx};
\todraw(dvipdfmx)(xdvipdfmx)
\end{tikzpicture}
\overviewsubsection[Font Technologies]{Font Techonolgies}
\parbox{\textwidth}{\normalsize
This section tries to cover the development of font technologies – the most important thing for a typesetting system is it's font mechanism …}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\tonode(bitmap)(0,\layer)<Bitmap fonts contain the shape of the letters as a number of dots. If you zoom in, a bitmap letter will show pixels.>{Bitmap fonts}
\steplayer[-3]
\tonode(metafont)(0,\layer)<Fonts based on the METAFONT program.>{metafont}
\steplayer[-3]
\tonode(type1)(-2,\layer)<Outline font. The shape of a letter is described as mathematical curves so the letter can be made arbitrarely large without getting pixeled.>{PostScript Type 1}
\tonode(truetype)(2,\layer)<>{TrueType}
\tonode(freetype)(6,\layer)<TrueType implementation for Unix.>{FreeType}
\todraw(freetype)(truetype)
\steplayer[-3]
\tonode(gx)(6,\layer)<Only available for Mac OS.>{TrueType GX}
\todraw(truetype)(gx)
\steplayer[-3]
\tonode(opentype)(-2,\layer)<Extension of TrueType font format, adding support for PostScript font data. Developed by Microsoft and Adobe.>{OpenType}
\todraw(truetype)(opentype)
\todraw(type1)(opentype)
\tonode(aat)(2,\layer)<Only available for Mac OS.>{AAT}
\todraw(aat)(gx)
\end{tikzpicture}
%%
%% I've chosen to typeset the bibliography "by hand" for full control of formatting and behaviour. Also, I can choose my own syntax ☺
%%
\clearpage
\restoregeometry
\part{Text Views} %% these are generated automatically by the code above.
\label{sec:text}
\settextviews
\appendix
\part{Appendix}
\section{References}
\label{sec:refs}
\normalsize\obeylines\flushleft %% to get rid of the still active centering
The references are in order of occurance in the above document. I.\,e. if you want information about Lua\TeX, it will be below e.\,g. $\epsilon$\TeX.
\tobibsection{Books}
\tobib{D.E. Knuth, D.~Bibby, and I.~Makai. The \TeX book\\ Addison-Wesley Reading, MA, 1986.}
\tobib{F.~Mittelbach, M.~Goossens, J.~Braams, D.~Carlisle, C.~Rowley, C.~Detig, and
J.~Schrod. The \LaTeX\ companion. \\ Addison-Wesley, 2004.}
\tobibsection{Overview Articles}
\tobib{Arthur Reutenauer. A Brief History of \TeX. Talk at EuroBacho\TeX\ 2007.}%
<http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/EuroBachoTeX2007/presentations/bhot.pdf/view>
\tobib{A Brief History of \LaTeX}<http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/feb98/0307.html>
\tobib{Short Article About Omega And Aleph}<http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=omegaleph>
\tobib{Interviews with Will Robertson, Hans Hagen et.\,al.}<http://www.tug.org/interviews>
\tobibsection{Web Archives}
\tobib{CTAN – Comprehensive TeX Archive Network:}<http://www.ctan.org>
\tobib{Historic Archive of TeX Distributions:}<ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic>
\tobibsection{Engines (Web sources)}
\tobib{ANT project page}<http://ant.berlios.de>
\tobib{Yasuki S AITO. Report on JTEX: A Japanese TEX. TUGboat 8 (1987), no. 2, 103\,–\,116.}%
<http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb08-2/tb18saito.pdf>
\tobib{p\TeX sources and documentation}<http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ptex.html>
\tobib{ML\TeX\ source (CH file)}<http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/generic/mltex/mltex.ch>
\tobib{enc\TeX\ page}<http://www.olsak.net/enctex.html>
\tobib{\NTS\ project page}<http://nts.tug.org>
\tobib{V\TeX\ – official homepage of micropress-inc}<http://www.micropress-inc.com/>
\tobib{$\epsilon\chi$\TeX\ project page}<http://www.extex.org>
\tobib{ee\TeX\ project page}<http://tex.aanhet.net/eetex>
\tobib{Lua\TeX\ project page}<http://www.luatex.org>
\tobib{i\TeX\ announcement by Don Knuth at the TUG 2010}<http://river-valley.tv/tug-2010/an-earthshaking-announcement>
\tobibsection{Formats (Web sources)}
\tobib{\ConTeXt\ wiki}<http://wiki.contextgarden.net>
\tobib{\LaTeX\ project page}<http://www.latex-project.org>
\tobib{\LaTeX3 project}<http://www.latex-project.org/latex3.html>
\tobibsection{Distributions (Web sources)}
\tobib{fp\TeX: Announcment at TUG 1999}<http://www.tug.org/tug99/program/node39.html>
\tobib{\TeX live development history}<http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html>
\tobib{TLContrib project page}<http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/>
\tobib{MikTeX project page}<http://miktex.org/>
\tobib{Win32 project page}<http://w32tex.org/>
\tobibsection{Fonts (Web sources)}
\tobib{Type1 Fonts specifications}<http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/T1_SPEC.PDF>
\tobib{The FreeType project}<http://freetype.org/index2.html>
\tobib{OpenType specifications}<http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/default.htm>
\tobibsection{Original Documentation – Everything Else}
\tobib{dvipdfmx project page}<http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx/>
\clearpage
\section{List of Contributors}
I have to thank some people for helping me to improve this document. Of course I thank all the people provinding the above-mentioned references.
\begin{itemize}
\item Paul Isambert, for usefull discussions and testing
\item Heiko Oberdiek, for solving a bug that broke the document with Acrobat Reader
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
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