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    <h1>LaTeX – A document preparation system</h1>
    <p>LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. LaTeX is available as <a href="{{ "/lppl/" | prepend: site.baseurl }}">free software</a>.</p>
    <p>You don't have to pay for using LaTeX, i.e., there are no license fees, etc. But you are, of course, invited to support the maintenance and development efforts through a <a href="https://www.tug.org/donate.html">donation to the TeX Users Group (choose LaTeX Project contribution)</a> if you are satisfied with LaTeX.</p>
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  You can also sponsor the work of LaTeX team members through the <a href="https://github.com/sponsors">GitHub sponsor program</a> at the moment for
  <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/FrankMittelbach">Frank</a>, <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/DavidCarlisle">David</a> and <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/JosephWright">Joseph</a>.  Your contribution goes without any reductions by GitHub to the developers in support of the project. 
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    <p>The volunteer efforts that provide you with LaTeX need financial support, so thanks for any contribution you are willing to make.</p>
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    <h2>LaTeX the product</h2>
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      <dt><a href="{{ "/about/" | prepend: site.baseurl }}">Introduction</a></dt>
      <dd>Short introduction to LaTeX. Learn what LaTeX is, which features it has, and how it works.</dd>
      <dt><a href="{{ "/get/" | prepend: site.baseurl }}">Getting LaTeX</a></dt>
      <dd>Learn how and where to get LaTeX for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Online.</dd>
      <dt><a href="{{ "/news/latex2e-news/" | prepend: site.baseurl }}">LaTeX2e Release Newsletters</a></dt>
      <dd>LaTeX2e release newsletters for each release of LaTeX created since 1994.</dd>
      <dt><a href="{{ "/help/" | prepend: site.baseurl }}">Getting help</a></dt>
      <dd>Help for issues with TeX and LaTeX: Official documentation, books, and links.</dd>
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    <h2>The LaTeX3 Project</h2>
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      <dd>The LaTeX3 project is a long-term research project to develop the next version of the LaTeX typesetting system.</dd>
      <dt><a href="{{ "/publications/" | prepend: site.baseurl }}">Publications</a></dt>
      <dd>A selection of articles, slides, conference papers, videos etc. published by the LaTeX3 project.</dd>
      <dt><a href="{{ "/latex3/code/" | prepend: site.baseurl }}">Development Code</a></dt>
      <dd>Place to get LaTeX3 development code which is intended only for experimentation and comments.</dd>
      <dt><a href="https://www.tug.org/donate.html">Donations</a></dt>
      <dd>Please consider donating to the TeX Users Group to support LaTeX development (<a href="https://www.tug.org/donate.html">LaTeX Project contribution</a>).</dd>
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