Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e. V., or ''DANTE e. V.'', is the German-language TeX users group. With about 2000 members, it is the largest TeX users group worldwide. DANTE was founded on 14 April 1989 in the German city of

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German: ') is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914, of which roughly a quarter consisted of students ...

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 and funds TeX-related projects. It also represents members towards other TeX users groups. DANTE runs the main

CTAN CTAN (an acronym for "Comprehensive TeX Archive Network") is the authoritative place where TeX related material and software can be found for download. Repositories for other projects, such as the MiKTeX distribution of TeX, constantly mirror mo ...

backbone server, . Conferences with talks, tutorials and general member meetings are held bi-annually on changing locations all over the German-speaking countries. The conferences are free of charge for everyone interested in TeX. The member journal, ' (German for "The TeXnical comedy", a pun on

Dante Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: ' ...

's ''

Divine Comedy The ''Divine Comedy'' ( it, Divina Commedia ) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed in around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature a ...

'' referring back to the group's name), is published quarterly. DANTE's international counterpart is the

TeX Users Group Tex may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tex (nickname), a list of people and fictional characters with the nickname * Joe Tex (1933–1982), stage name of American soul singer Joseph Arrington Jr. Entertainment * ''Tex'', the Italian ...

(TUG) that was founded in 1980.

External links

DANTE, Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e. V.
{{Authority control TeX User groups 1989 establishments in West Germany Organizations established in 1989 Scientific organisations based in Germany Heidelberg