Known users from DebianScience listed in parenthesis.

• [http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/typesetting.html Sentinel page]

Typesetting

Editors

• emacs ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00002.html Andre Lehovich], [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08

• xemacs ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00007.html Victor Munoz])

• bluefish ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00006.html Kenward Vaughan]) /msg00170.html Filippo Rusconi], [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00005.html Enrico Zini])

• kile ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00006.html Helen Faulkner], [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00017.html JD Rogers])

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/texmaker texmaker] A Cross-Platform LaTeX Editor

Typesetting tools already packaged in Debian

TeX/LaTeX

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/texlive TeXLive] TeX Live: A decent selection of the TeX Live packages

  • [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-bibtex-extra] TeX Live: Extra BibTeX styles

  • [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/texlive-math-extra texlive-math-extra]TeX Live: Advanced math typesetting

  • [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/texlive-publishers texlive-publishers] TeX Live: Support for publishers

  • [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/texlive-science texlive-science] TeX Live: Typesetting for natural and computer sciences

• LaTeX ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00006.html Helen Faulkner], [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00002.html Andre Lehovich], [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00007.html Victor Munoz], [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00170.html Filippo Rusconi])

• pdflatex ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00007.html Victor Munoz])

• [http://packages.debian.org/sid/rubber rubber] an automated system for building LaTeX documents ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00035.html Gorjanc Gregor], [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00032.html Jukka Suomela])

• TeX
• tex4ht

• texi2dvi ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00035.html Gorjanc Gregor])

• texify

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/diploma 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 ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00006.html Helen Faulkner], [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00007.html Victor Munoz], [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00008.html Carlo Segre], [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00006.html Kenward Vaughan], [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00005.html Enrico Zini])

• scribus ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00001.html Yaroslav Halchenko])

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/lyx LyX] ([http://www.lyx.org/ 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.

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/texmacs texmacs] WYSIWYG mathematical text editor using TeX fonts

  • [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/texmacs-extra-fonts texmacs-extra-fonts] extra fonts for the mathematical text editor ?TeXmacs

Viewers

• gv ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00007.html Victor Munoz])

• xpdf ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00007.html 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

• [http://packages.debian.org/stable/auctex AUCTeX] ([http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ upstream]) Integrated document editing environment for TeX etc. One component of AUCTeX that LaTeX users will find attractive is: [http://packages.debian.org/stable/preview-latex-style 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.

• [http://packages.debian.org/stable/whizzytex whizzytex] ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00002.html Andre Lehovich])

• reftex mode - included with emacs helps with cross references.
• flyspell mode - on the fly spell checking - included with emacs

• [ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/ite/index.html ite] ([http://bugs.debian.org/492651 ITP:#492651]) Position figure labels interactively. [http://sites.google.com/site/ralexowen/debian-packages Preliminary Package]

Vector diagrams

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/dia dia] [http://live.gnome.org/Dia upstream] Dia is an editor for diagrams, graphs, charts etc.

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/xfig xfig] Facility for Interactive Generation of figures under X11

  • [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/transfig transfig] Utilities for converting XFig figure files

Others

• [http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/skribe.html skribe] [http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Skribe/ upstream] ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00171.html Brett Viren])

• See also [http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/doc debian-med/doc]

Publishing tools that could be considered for inclusion in Debian

• [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=use..typesetting;users=debian-science@lists.debian.org Packages being worked on].

• epsmerge ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00007.html Victor Munoz])

• pyblink (already packaged by [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00001.html 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 [http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/ upstream] ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00035.html Gorjanc Gregor]) very powerful combination of LaTeX and R in one file. This is based on Noweb ideology.

• yzis [http://www.yzis.org/ upstream] For vi-like users.

Drawing Feynman diagrams

• ?FeynmanGraph [http://www.physics.odu.edu/~musatov/ upstream].

• ?JaxoDraw [http://jaxodraw.sourceforge.net/ upstream]

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/feynmf feynmf] set of LaTeX macros for creating Feynman diagrams

Printing utilities

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/impose+ impose+] Postscript utilities for two-up printing, bbox, etc

Bibliographies

Managing bibliographies

• [http://packages.debian.org/sid/jabref 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).

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/bibutils bibutils] ([http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/ upstream]) Convert between the following bibliographic data formats: BibTeX, COPAC, ?EndNote refer, ?EndNote XML, Pubmed XML, ISI web of science, US Library of Congress MODS XML, RIS, and Word 2007 bibliography.

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kbibtex kbibtex] ([http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kbibtex/ upstream] BibTeX editor for KDE

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/pybliographer pybliographer] ([http://www.pybliographer.org/ pybliographer] tool for manipulating bibliographic databases

• [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/referencer referencer] ([http://icculus.org/referencer/index.html 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