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✒️ Writing & Typesetting

Free tools for technical documents, reports, theses and diagrams – with equations, references and a layout that stays correct over a hundred pages. Zotero and Calibre are in the Office & Documents section.

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• TeX Live

  tug.org

  The complete LaTeX distribution for Linux, Windows and macOS. LaTeX is still the standard for documents full of formulas.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #LATEX
  • #TYPESETTING
  • #CROSS-PLATFORM

• MiKTeX

  miktex.org

  A LaTeX distribution for Windows that installs missing packages by itself when a document needs them.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #LATEX
  • #WINDOWS
  • #TYPESETTING

• TeXstudio

  texstudio.org

  A LaTeX editor with preview, auto-completion and help for tables and formulas.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #LATEX
  • #EDITOR
  • #CROSS-PLATFORM

• LyX

  lyx.org

  Write LaTeX documents almost like in a word processor, without typing the commands. Good for a first long document.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #LATEX
  • #WYSIWYM
  • #BEGINNER

• Overleaf

  overleaf.com

  LaTeX in the browser, nothing to install, with sharing and working together. Free plan; the community edition can be self-hosted.

  • #FREE
  • #LATEX
  • #BROWSER
  • #COLLABORATION

• Typst

  typst.app

  A new typesetting system with simpler syntax than LaTeX and almost instant preview. The compiler is open source; the web editor has a free plan.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #TYPESETTING
  • #MODERN
  • #FAST

• Pandoc

  pandoc.org

  Converts documents between formats – Markdown, Word, LaTeX, HTML, EPUB and many more – from the command line.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #CONVERTER
  • #MARKDOWN
  • #CLI

• draw.io

  drawio.com

  Diagrams, flowcharts, network plans and schemes in the browser or as a desktop app. Files stay on your own disk.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #DIAGRAMS
  • #FLOWCHARTS
  • #CROSS-PLATFORM