Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX
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Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e. V., or DANTE e. V., is the German-language TeX
users group. With over 2000 members, it is today the largest TeX users group worldwide.
DANTE was founded on 14 April 1989 in the German city of Heidelberg
by a handful of TeX enthusiasts who had met formerly on a non-regular basis.
According to its statutes, DANTE consults TeX users from all German-speaking countries. It also represents them vis à vis other TeX users groups.
DANTE runs one of three CTAN
backbone servers, dante.ctan.org.
Meetings with additional talks and tutorials are held bi-annually on changing locations all over the German-speaking countries that are free to take part in for everyone interested in TeX.
The member journal, Die TeXnische Komödie, is published quarterly.
DANTE's international counterpart is the TeX Users Group (TUG) that was founded in 1980.
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TeX is a typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth and released in 1978. Within the typesetting system, its name is formatted as ....
users group. With over 2000 members, it is today the largest TeX users group worldwide.
DANTE was founded on 14 April 1989 in the German city of Heidelberg
Heidelberg
-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...
by a handful of TeX enthusiasts who had met formerly on a non-regular basis.
According to its statutes, DANTE consults TeX users from all German-speaking countries. It also represents them vis à vis other TeX users groups.
DANTE runs one of three CTAN
CTAN
CTAN is an acronym for the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network.It is the authoritative place where TeX related material and software can be found for download...
backbone servers, dante.ctan.org.
Meetings with additional talks and tutorials are held bi-annually on changing locations all over the German-speaking countries that are free to take part in for everyone interested in TeX.
The member journal, Die TeXnische Komödie, is published quarterly.
DANTE's international counterpart is the TeX Users Group (TUG) that was founded in 1980.