TeX-other

Alternative implementations of TeX, other than the well-known ones

Pinned Repositories

CommonTeX-2.9
c. 1990 version of Monardo's CommonTeX, from http://wireless.nmsu.edu/tracebase/src/benchmarks/tex/
Language:C1 2 00
PdfTeXLite
A self-contained, portable, tiny version of PdfTeX.
Language:C++1 1 04
tex-in-c
TeX-in-C from http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/tex/ (possibly still active project)
Language:C3 2 01
texmf-sail
Donald Knuth's programs in SAIL for *historical versions* (late 1970s) of TeX and METAFONT.
1 2 01
texPLUSPLUS
Archive of https://kasper.phi-sci.com/tex++ (See also "cpptex" which modernizes it)
Language:C1 2 00
typeset
Fork of https://github.com/bramstein/typeset which isn't really a TeX implementation but interesting anyway.
Language:JavaScript1 2 00
vortex
VorTeX from (old?) CTAN mirrors (e.g. http://www.botik.ru/~znamensk/CTAN/obsolete/support/ and http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/obsolete/support/ or even https://ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolete/support)
Language:C11
web2js
Fork of https://github.com/tex-other/web2js — Convert TeX's pascal to javascript
Language:JavaScript1 1 00
xetex-js
(Copy of https://github.com/lyze/xetex-js) Javascript port of XeTeX
Language:JavaScript1 2 00
XymosTeX
Fork of https://github.com/xymostech/XymosTeX — of all the projects I've been collecting this is the most exciting and closest to my heart. By someone who seems to know what they're doing (should contact them sometime), and it's still ongoing. Super cool and educational!
Language:Rust3 1 00

TeX-other's Repositories

tex-other/tex-in-c
TeX-in-C from http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/tex/ (possibly still active project)
Language:C3 2 01
tex-other/XymosTeX
Fork of https://github.com/xymostech/XymosTeX — of all the projects I've been collecting this is the most exciting and closest to my heart. By someone who seems to know what they're doing (should contact them sometime), and it's still ongoing. Super cool and educational!
Language:Rust3 1 00
tex-other/CommonTeX-2.9
c. 1990 version of Monardo's CommonTeX, from http://wireless.nmsu.edu/tracebase/src/benchmarks/tex/
Language:C1 2 00
tex-other/cxtex
CXTeX from http://www.metatex.org/cxtex/
Language:C1 2 0
tex-other/formulae
A copy of “A functional description of TeX's formula layout” (“date modified” says “7/16/96, 5:00:00 PM”) from ftp://ftp.cs.uni-sb.de/formulae/
Language:Standard ML1 2 0
tex-other/knuth-plass-thoughts
Fork of https://github.com/jaroslov/knuth-plass-thoughts — Description and implementation of the core Knuth-Plass line-wrapping algorithm.
Language:C++1
tex-other/PdfTeXLite
A self-contained, portable, tiny version of PdfTeX.
Language:C++1 1 04
tex-other/tex
forked from https://github.com/igor-liferenko/tex
Language:CWeb1 1 00
tex-other/texmf-sail
Donald Knuth's programs in SAIL for *historical versions* (late 1970s) of TeX and METAFONT.
1 2 01
tex-other/texPLUSPLUS
Archive of https://kasper.phi-sci.com/tex++ (See also "cpptex" which modernizes it)
Language:C1 2 00
tex-other/typeset
Fork of https://github.com/bramstein/typeset which isn't really a TeX implementation but interesting anyway.
Language:JavaScript1 2 00
tex-other/vortex
VorTeX from (old?) CTAN mirrors (e.g. http://www.botik.ru/~znamensk/CTAN/obsolete/support/ and http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/obsolete/support/ or even https://ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolete/support)
Language:C11
tex-other/web2js
Fork of https://github.com/tex-other/web2js — Convert TeX's pascal to javascript
Language:JavaScript1 1 00
tex-other/xetex-js
(Copy of https://github.com/lyze/xetex-js) Javascript port of XeTeX
Language:JavaScript1 2 00
tex-other/BibTeXLite
A tiny and portable version of BibTeX.
Language:C1 0
tex-other/extex
Clone of https://git.code.sf.net/p/extex/code (https://sourceforge.net/projects/extex/)
Language:Java
tex-other/go-latex
Fork of https://github.com/go-latex/latex (not an implementation of all of TeX, but something like MathJax)
Language:Go0 0
tex-other/javatex
Copy of https://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/javatex
Language:Java2 0
tex-other/luatex
Fork of https://github.com/TeX-Live/luatex itself a "Mirror of luatex svn to git" — will easily get out of date
Language:C1 0
tex-other/nts
Copy of NTS (New Typesetting System: a Java reimplementation of TeX, abandoned)
Language:Java1
tex-other/putex
Copy of https://osdn.net/projects/putex/
Language:C2 0
tex-other/rstex
Fork of https://github.com/nadder/rstex just for creating pull requests
Language:C++
tex-other/star-tex
Fork of https://sr.ht/~sbinet/star-tex/
Language:Go1 0
tex-other/SwiftLaTeX
Fork of https://github.com/SwiftLaTeX/SwiftLaTeX which is still in active development (yay)
Language:JavaScript1 0
tex-other/TeX--
A TeX implementation in a single C++11 class.
Language:C2 0
tex-other/tex-igor-old
Forked from github.com/igor-liferenko/tex (via https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/454588/how-to-get-core-dump-from-virtex)
Language:C2 0
tex-other/tex-linebreak
(Fork of https://github.com/robertknight/tex-linebreak) JavaScript implementation of the Knuth-Plass linebreaking algorithm
tex-other/tex-rs
(A fork of https://github.com/crlf0710/tex-rs -- someone making progress translating TeX (or more?) into Rust.)
tex-other/TeX.js
TeXify: Typesetting for the Web
Language:HTML
tex-other/web2go
Fork of https://gitlab.com/cznic/web2go which was used to generate star-tex
Language:TeX