What are other good resources on-line for information about TeX, LaTeX and friends?

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Are there newsgroups, forums, FAQs, and other sites that provide quality information on TeX, LaTeX and friends? Are all of these in English, or is there one in "my language of choice"?

I think this question is borderline to be closed, almost too general (indeed, which language, are we going to list all resources in all languages?) In any case, it should be made a community wiki.
There's this one site called something like "tex.stackexchange.com" or something? I've heard that's pretty good...
I think that this should be community wiki, and Stefan's answer should be accepted so that it stays at the top.

6 revs, 2 users 100% · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-13 18:26:02Z

Newsgroups:

comp.text.tex: Usenet discussion group for TeX and LaTeX
de.comp.text.tex: German Usenet discussion group for TeX and LaTeX
fr.comp.text.tex: French Usenet group
es.comp.lenguajes.tex: Spanish Usenet group

Web forums:

TeX, LaTeX and friends on Stack Exchange
LaTeX-Community.org: LaTeX-dedicated web forum
goLaTeX Deutsch: German LaTeX forum, with Wiki
mrunix.de: very frequented German LaTeX subforum of a programmers site

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):

UK TeX FAQ: FAQ of the UK TeX Users Group, maintened by Robin Fairbairns
The Visual LaTeX FAQ: formatting samples available through a hyperlink interface
MacTeX FAQ: Mac OS X specific questions and answers
amsmath FAQ: FAQ for amsmath and related packages
AMS authors FAQ: FAQ for AMS Authors dealing with AMS-LaTeX but also with LaTeX in general
de-tex-faq: FAQ of the German TeX user group DANTE e.V.
Picture FAQ: How to Include Pictures, in German

Software and Package Archives and Catalogues:

CTAN - The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: the authoritative collection of materials related to TeX and LaTeX
The TeX Catalogue Online: TeX/LaTeX package catalogue with topical, hierarchical, brief and alphabetical index
TeX Resources on the Web: Collection by the TeX User Group
The LaTeX Font Catalogue: displays nearly all free fonts available for use with LaTeX

Wikis:

The LaTeX Wiki book on wikibooks.org
goLaTeX wiki: German wiki with language reference and package information
LaTeX-Wiki: German wiki

Mailing lists:

texhax: the original TeX mailing list, going back to the 1980's
mailing lists of the TeX Users Group: around 50 lists on tug.org for general subjects and certain packages
mailing lists on gmane.org: among many lists there are several tex related mailing lists
ctan-ann - CTAN Announcements: announcements of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: updates, new packages etc.
pgf-users: mailing list for pgf/TikZ
Typo-L: discussion of type and typographic design
tex-d-l: German mailing list for TeX and LaTeX

User group sites:

TUG - TeX Users Group
UK-TUG: TeX in the United Kingdom
DANTE e.V.: German users group
The LaTeX Project
more groups listed by the TUG

Blogs:

TeXblog: News and information by Stefan Kottwitz
Some TeX Developments: blog by LaTeX developer Joseph Wright
LaTeX Alive: blog by Will Robertson
LaTeX for Humans: Tips, resources and tutorials
more to be found on texample.net/community

Distributions: - where to get a complete TeX system:

TeX Live: TeX system for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and Windows
MiKTeX: user-friendly TeX system for Windows
proTeXt: easy-to-install distribution for Windows, based on MiKTeX
MacTeX: TeX Live customized for Mac OS X with useful additions

Editors:

Cross-platform: Texmaker, TeXstudio, TeXworks, Emacs
Windows: TeXnicCenter, WinEdt (community), LEd, LaTeX-Editor, WinShell
Linux: Kile, gedit and plugin
MAC OS X: TeXShop

Viewers:

see Output viewers topic for all platforms and formats

Friends: - Software related to TeX and LaTeX

Nice, complete list (I was half-way through voting for lots of other answers when I spotted this one!)
One thing that is mssing is the german LaTeX forum at mrunix.de (mrunix.de/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=38).
The mrunix forum is great. I just did not include LaTeX subforums (mrunix is a general programmers forum) but LaTeX dedicated forums. More such subforums are listed here: texblog.net/latex-link-archive/board-forum-group
mrunix-LaTeX is only a subforum, but its topics account for about 60% of mrunix.de. Also, it has (at the moment) about 10 times the content of golatex.de.

Daniel Egeberg · Answer 2 · 2010-07-26 21:16:39Z

up vote 10 down vote

http://wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

And you can even help improving it yourself :)

answered Jul 26 '10 at 21:16

Daniel Egeberg
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ShreevatsaR · Answer 3 · 2010-07-26 21:13:29Z

up vote 9 down vote

The UK TeX FAQ, where you'll the answer to what you're looking for surprisingly often.

answered Jul 26 '10 at 21:13

ShreevatsaR
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Sharpie · Answer 4 · 2010-07-31 22:46:26Z

up vote 8 down vote

For drawing figures using TikZ texample is a great resource for examples, complete with code.

answered Jul 31 '10 at 22:46

Sharpie
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Larry Wang · Answer 5 · 2010-07-26 21:05:57Z

up vote 5 down vote

The two big ones are http://www.latex-community.org/ and http://tug.org/.
And the site you're on right now, of course!

answered Jul 26 '10 at 21:05

Larry Wang
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equaeghe · Answer 6 · 2010-07-31 20:17:35Z

There are also options on usenet: the newsgroups comp.text.tex, fr.comp.text.tex (French), de.comp.text.tex (German) are also places where questions can be asked. Moreover, announcements about new and updated packages are also sent there.

Niall Murphy · Answer 7 · 2010-07-31 22:36:37Z

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The #latex IRC channel on freenode.net has some extremely knowledgeable people on it.

answered Jul 31 '10 at 22:36

Niall Murphy
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Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson · Answer 8 · 2010-08-13 13:45:42Z

up vote 3 down vote

For LaTeX the way it's used by linguists, there is http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/clmt/latex4ling/

answered Aug 13 '10 at 13:45

Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson
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This makes me wonder: Should there be a thread collecting information about LaTeX concerning different sciences? – Bran the Blessed Aug 19 '10 at 19:26

Leo Liu · Answer 9 · 2010-08-13 17:22:01Z

up vote 3 down vote

One of my favourite books on LaTeX is 'The LaTeX companion'. It has the whole 3rd chapter 113 pages freely online (See: full text of chapter 3). The typography is also excellent.

answered Aug 13 '10 at 17:22

Leo Liu
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frabjous · Answer 10 · 2010-08-20 15:50:54Z

up vote 3 down vote

For philosophers and others in the humanities there is the PhilTeX blog and the PhilTeX forum.

answered Aug 20 '10 at 15:50

community wiki

frabjous

Aditya · Answer 11 · 2010-08-22 17:50:25Z

up vote 3 down vote

No one has talked about "Friends" so far :-)

For ConTeXt, the ConTeXt wiki is pretty useful

answered Aug 22 '10 at 17:50

community wiki

Aditya

Keks Dose · Answer 12 · 2011-08-13 19:16:30Z

up vote 3 down vote

Ladies and Gentlemen!

Without further ado we proudly present

the very best resource for TeX and friends:

texdoc <packagename>

on a commandline.

This is it. There is nothing better.

answered Aug 13 '11 at 19:16

community wiki

Keks Dose

dıʞsdoʇ · Answer 13 · 2010-08-19 18:48:19Z

up vote 2 down vote

German resources for LuaTeX: http://www.luatex.de/ressourcen/

answered Aug 19 '10 at 18:48

community wiki

dıʞsdoʇ

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