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Technical Publishing Tools

Open‐source tools for creating scientific, technical, and academic publications – including books, websites, and various document outputs – that empower authors to generate polished, reproducible content.

12 projects

8,791 contributors

$101M

Quarto

Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc that allows users to create dynamic content with Python, R, Julia, and Observable. It enables the creation of articles, presentations, websites, blogs, and books in HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, and other formats from a single source document.

Contributors

4,137

Organizations

911

Software value

$44M

Asciidoctor

:gem: A fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain, written in Ruby, for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML 5, DocBook 5, and other formats.

Contributors

1,685

Organizations

553

Software value

$2.2M

bookdown

Dynamic Documents for R

Contributors

962

Organizations

231

Software value

$775K

ReSpec

ReSpec is a tool for creating technical specifications and documentation in web standards format. It helps authors write technical documents by handling formatting, styling, references, and other common needs of technical specifications, particularly for W3C and similar standards organizations.

Contributors

496

Organizations

156

Software value

$1.3M

AsciidoctorJ

AsciidoctorJ is a Java integration library for Asciidoctor that enables conversion of AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook and other formats through a Java API. It provides a native Java interface to process AsciiDoc content using Asciidoctor's core Ruby implementation.

Contributors

372

Organizations

151

Software value

$1M

LaTeX3

LaTeX3 is a long-term project to develop the next version of the LaTeX typesetting system, providing a more flexible and programmable foundation for document preparation. It includes a programming layer (expl3) and implements new document interfaces and functionality while maintaining backwards compatibility.

Contributors

315

Organizations

65

Software value

$5.1M

SILE

The SILE Typesetter — Simon’s Improved Layout Engine

Contributors

315

Organizations

86

Software value

$19M

Asymptote

Asymptote is a powerful vector graphics language for technical drawing and scientific visualization, extending MetaPost's coordinate-based approach with a C++-like syntax. It generates high-quality vector graphics output and supports mathematical expressions, 3D rendering, and programmatic creation of precise technical illustrations.

Contributors

291

Organizations

60

Software value

$17M

PreTeXt

PreTeXt is an open-source authoring and publishing system that allows authors to write scientific and mathematical documents in a semantic markup language, which can then be converted to multiple output formats including HTML, PDF, and EPUB. It is designed specifically for creating textbooks, research papers, and educational materials with rich mathematical content.

Contributors

218

Organizations

39

Software value

$11M

Manubot

Clone me to create your Manubot manuscript

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SciPy Conference Proceedings

Tools used to generate the SciPy conference proceedings

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