Known users from DebianScience listed in parenthesis.
Typesetting
Editors
emacs (Andre Lehovich, [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08
xemacs (Victor Munoz)
bluefish (Kenward Vaughan) /msg00170.html Filippo Rusconi], Enrico Zini)
kile (Helen Faulkner, JD Rogers)
texmaker A Cross-Platform LaTeX Editor
Typesetting tools already packaged in Debian
TeX/LaTeX
TeXLive TeX Live: A decent selection of the TeX Live packages
texlive-bibtex-extra TeX Live: Extra BibTeX styles
texlive-math-extraTeX Live: Advanced math typesetting
texlive-publishers TeX Live: Support for publishers
texlive-science TeX Live: Typesetting for natural and computer sciences
LaTeX (Helen Faulkner, Andre Lehovich, Victor Munoz, Filippo Rusconi)
pdflatex (Victor Munoz)
rubber an automated system for building LaTeX documents (Gorjanc Gregor, Jukka Suomela)
- TeX
- tex4ht
texi2dvi (Gorjanc Gregor)
- texify
diploma Write scientific papers with Debian - Debian GNU/Linux is widely used at universities to do research and to write papers with LaTeX. The package diploma contains examples which illustrate the possible ways to do this effectively with Debian GNU/Linux. Each example consists of a source tree where you can do "make" in the top level directory and then the source code is compiled, the measurement data are processed, and the results are converted into nice figures. Then the text is processed and combined with the figures to a print file.
Wysiwyg
openoffice.org (Helen Faulkner, Victor Munoz, Carlo Segre, Kenward Vaughan, Enrico Zini)
scribus (Yaroslav Halchenko)
LyX (upstream) LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX. It makes the power and typesetting quality of LaTeX available for people who are used to word processors.
texmacs WYSIWYG mathematical text editor using TeX fonts
texmacs-extra-fonts extra fonts for the mathematical text editor ?TeXmacs
Viewers
gv (Victor Munoz)
xpdf (Victor Munoz)
Useful for slides and posters
DebianScience/ConferenceTools#slides Tools for producing slides
DebianScience/ConferenceTools#posters Tools for producing posters
Emacs extensions for LaTeX
AUCTeX (upstream) Integrated document editing environment for TeX etc. One component of AUCTeX that LaTeX users will find attractive is: preview-latex, a combination of folding and in-source previewing that provides true "What You See Is What You Get" experience in your sourcebuffer, while letting you retain full control.
- reftex mode - included with emacs helps with cross references.
- flyspell mode - on the fly spell checking - included with emacs
ite (ITP: 492651) Position figure labels interactively. Preliminary Package
Vim addons for LaTeX
VIM LaTeX-suite (upstream) view, edit and compile LaTeX document from VIM. Provides a lot of very useful macros to insert symbols, environments, and to type mathematical formulas. Offers similar features as Auctex to VI users.
Vector diagrams
dia upstream Dia is an editor for diagrams, graphs, charts etc.
xfig Facility for Interactive Generation of figures under X11
transfig Utilities for converting XFig figure files
Others
See also debian-med/doc
Publishing tools that could be considered for inclusion in Debian
epsmerge (Victor Munoz)
pyblink (already packaged by Yaroslav Halchenko): it is for those who have to struggle in OO and write anything which includes bibliographies. pyblink would help you to interact OO with pybliographic and have references done in easier way.
Sweave upstream (Gorjanc Gregor) very powerful combination of LaTeX and R in one file. This is based on Noweb ideology.
yzis upstream For vi-like users.
Drawing Feynman diagrams
Printing utilities
impose+ Postscript utilities for two-up printing, bbox, etc
Bibliographies
Managing bibliographies
jabref ?JabRef is a GUI to manage BibTeX databases, the standard LaTeX bibliography reference format. ?JabRef is built to be platform independent (requires Java 1.5). It merges and extends the functionalities of ?BibKeeper (Morten O. Alver) and JBibtexManager (Nizar Batada).
Bibus (upstream) is a bibliographic database written in Python and working together with OpenOffice.org.
bibutils (upstream) Convert between the following bibliographic data formats: BibTeX, COPAC, ?EndNote refer, ?EndNote XML,
cb2bib (upstream) Extract unformatted or unstandardized bibliographic references from email alerts, journal Web pages, and PDF files. Manage huge BibTeX bibliographies.
Pubmed XML, ISI web of science, US Library of Congress MODS XML, RIS, and Word 2007 bibliography.
pybliographer (pybliographer tool for manipulating bibliographic databases
referencer (upstream) Referencer is a GNOME application to organise documents or references, and ultimately generate a BibTeX bibliography file.
Tools for handling bibliographies that could be considered for inclusion in Debian
Name |
Task |
Licence |
Package |
Surveying |
GPL |
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Database |
GPL |
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Converter |
GPLv2 |
depens on Java |
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PDF article indexing |
GPL |
depends on php/mysql/apache |
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Bibliography management |
GPL |
depends on python |
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bibliography management as a web browser addon |
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