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1. Awesome LaTeX

Distributions

MacTeX - Most common LaTeX distribution for macOS, basically TeXLive with some Mac-specific tools added. $mac$

TeX Live - Most common LaTeX distribution for Unix-like operating systems, including GNU/Linux. Also works on Windows. $linux$ $windows$

Engines

pdfTeX - TeX compiler that produces PDF files immediately instead of DVI files (nowadays, this is the standard compiler for many users). $foss$

tectonic - Modern, self contained (La)TeX compiler powered by XeTeX and TeXLive. $foss$

LaTeX formulas on the web

MathJaX - JavaScript engine to render mathematical formulas on the web. The outcome looks really slick. $foss$

KaTeX - KaTeX is a math rendering library made by Khan Academy focusing on fast load times. All output is processed as plain HTML instead of fixed images. $foss$

Franklin.jl - Static site generator with KaTeX support, code evaluation, LaTeX-like commands and optional pre-rendering, in Julia. $foss$

LaTeX-focused

Kile - Great LaTeX editor originally from the Linux/KDE community. It runs fine on Windows and macOS as well. $foss$

LyX - Cross-platform WYSIWYM editor that uses LaTeX behind the scenes to render documents. $foss$

TeXWorks - No-nonsense editor for LaTeX code, modeled after TeXShop, but this one is cross-platform. $foss$

Online editors

JaxEdit - Online LaTeX editor with Live Preview and nice presentation mode.

Bibliography tools

JabRef - Very powerful cross-platform (Java) bibtex editor. $mac$ $windows$ $linux$ $foss$

Papis (⭐1.4k) - Extremely customizable, powerful and simple cross-platform (Python) library manager. It has a very complete Command-Line-Interface, several GUIs and scripting capability. $linux$ $mac$ $foss$

Mendeley - Both an app and cloud client to manage your references and PDFs. Can sync out to a bibtex file for your LaTeX workflow. $mac$ $windows$ $linux$

betterbib (⭐809) - Command-line utility for improving your BibTeX files. Fetches information from online sources. $mac$ $windows$ $linux$ $foss$

Build Tools

latexmk - Build tool that is the commonly used by many LaTeX editors (LaTeXing, TeXShop, etc.) to build your LaTeX files. $foss$

Misc. Tools

Pandoc - This program converts almost any document format (LaTeX, DOC, markdown, etc.) to almost any other format. A great tool to aid workflows where multiple formats are used. $foss$

Quality Check Tools

blacktex (⭐149) - Command-line tool that replaces commonly occurring LaTeX anti-patterns and cleans up your files. $windows$ $linux$ $mac$ $foss$

Tools centered around equations

KLaTeXFormula - Cross-platform alternative for LaTeXit. $foss$

Laeqed - Crossplatform LaTeX formula to PNG convertor. $windows$ $linux$ $mac$ $foss$

LaTeXiT - LaTeXit is an equation editor that makes it easy to drag-and-drop rendered equations (as PDF, PNG, etc.) into your non-LaTeX documents on the Mac. $mac$

LaTeX-compatible GUI tools

TikZ-Editor (⭐179) - Live-previewing editor for TikZ figures. $mac$ $linux$ $foss$

Dia - Cross-platform diagramming tool that can export to PSTricks and MetaPost code. $foss$

TikZiT - GUI tool for creating graphs and string diagrams using PGF/TikZ. $windows$ $linux$ $mac$ $foss$

References

Cross-reference packages explained - Elaboration on cross-reference packages (cleveref, varioref, theoremref, nameref, etc.): Which to use, which conflict?

Tables

Excel2LaTeX - Excel (2010 and older) macros to produce LaTeX tabular code. $windows$ $mac$

Graphics / TikZ

LaTeX en SI - Useful website with some custom packages to draw special plots (Bode, Nyquist, electrical schematics, block schematics, etc.) using TikZ. Note that everything is in French.

matlab2tikz (⭐1.5k) - Convert your MATLAB plots to PGFPlots/TikZ. $windows$ $linux$ $mac$ $foss$

Resources / TikZ

TeXnique - A LaTeX Typesetting Game.

2. Awesome Appimage

AppImage consumption tools / Desktop integration

Thumbnailer for AppImages (⭐7) - Generates icons for AppImages that are shown in file managers of GNOME and KDE compatible desktop environments.

3. Awesome Keycloak

Articles

Grafana OAuth with Keycloak and how to validate a JWT token

Community Extensions

Role-based Docker registry authentication (⭐9)

Example Projects

Keycloak Last Login Date Event Listener (⭐24)

4. Awesome Powershell

Blogs

Windows PowerShell Blog - Official PowerShell Team Blog.

SharePoint

SharePoint2019Commands (⭐3) - PowerShell module to help you auto-load all SharePoint 2019 cmdlets.

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