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LaTeX

It is a typesetting system for producing scientific and mathematical documents of high typographical quality.
LaTeX is free software under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL).

Some useful links:

• http://tug.ctan.org/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
• https://www.latex-project.org/get/
• A summary of the TeX project by Prof. Knuth

Related tools:

• PGF/TikZ
  Basically, TeX to do nice graphics. TikZ ist kein Zeichenprogramm.

  Manual

• Beamer
  A LaTeX class for producing presentations and slides.

  https://www.ctan.org/pkg/beamer

• BibTeX
  Tool and a file format which are used to describe and process lists of references.

  http://www.bibtex.org/

  • JabRef
    JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager.

    http://www.jabref.org/

Emacs

An extensible, customisable, free text editor — and more
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html

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A couple of useful packages to use with Emacs:

• Org mode
  Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.

  http://orgmode.org/

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• AUCTeX
  AUCTeX is an extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in GNU Emacs and XEmacs.

  https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/

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  • RefTeX
    RefTeX is a specialised package for support of labels, references, citations, and the indices in LaTeX.

    https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/reftex.html

• Magit
  Magit is an interface to the version control system Git, implemented as an Emacs package.

  https://magit.vc

Git

Free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Book: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2