<p>Emacs Prophet; TeX Evangelist.</p>

<h1>God bless <a href="https://github.com/cereda/arara" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>arara</code></a>.</h1>

<p>I'm a TeX systems enthusiast.  I don't just push serious authors to use LaTeX, but I advertise the capability of TeX systems for background-process publishing.  I'm currently researching for an article on <em>TeX in Industry</em>.</p>

<h3>Recommended resources</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/texbook" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The</a> <a href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0201134489" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TeXBook</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LaTeX Wikibook</a></li>
</ul>

<h3>Recommended TeX editors</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/s/auctex" rel="nofollow noreferrer">AUCTeX</a> under <a href="http://www.gnu.org/s/emacs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Emacs</a>.  The best I've used by a wide margin.  (If you have issues setting up inline preview, check out <a href="http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/83905/17423">some of my questions</a> <a href="http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/83970/17423">on the issue</a>.)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TeXMaker</a></li>
<li><a href="http://texstudio.sourceforge.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TeXStudio</a> (autocompletion is a little weird)</li>
</ul>

<h3>FAQ:</h3>

<ul>
<li>Why download the complete TeX distribution?  It's so big!</li>
<li>I'm on Linux.  Why install 'vanilla' TeX Live when my package repositories already contain it?</li>
</ul>

<p>Believe me, unless you <em>really</em> know what you're doing, it's always simpler to just download the full, vanilla TeX Live from TUG.  Space is cheap – your time is not.  Don't believe me?</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/235677/17423">http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/235677/17423</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/240589/17423">http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/240589/17423</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/271212/17423">http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/271212/17423</a></li>
</ul>

<h3>Interesting <code>texdoc</code> resources:</h3>

<ul>
<li><code>errorlog</code></li>
</ul>

<h3>Funny TeX-related tidbits around the internet</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.text.tex/tdUru-Gtwm0/E605prLQ_K8J" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The condition of Queen Victoria is stable.</a></li>
</ul>

<h3>License fuddling</h3>

<p>It's come to my attention that all content on this site is automatically under Creative Commons -- a license not terribly useful for LaTeX.  Thus, I here relicense all my TeX/LaTeX/expl3 code under the <a href="http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), version 1.3c or later</a>.  Document-embedded code (i.e. Lua, Python, <code>sh</code>, etc. that is initially processed by TeX) is also licensed under the LPPL v1.3c or later.</p>

Sean Allred