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comp.text.tex

TeX, LaTeX and friends.

The working group of the TeX world: macro debugging, font sorcery (Metafont to Type 1 and beyond), package announcements and typographic doctrine, with many principals of the TeX community posting directly.

Its answers migrated into FAQs, then into StackExchange — but the originals were argued out here first.

Reading comp.text.tex today

  • Historical archive: Google Groups — comp.text.tex (coverage varies by group and era).
  • Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
  • The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.