Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX

[1] 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 and funds TeX-related projects.

Conferences with talks, tutorials and general member meetings are held bi-annually on changing locations all over the German-speaking countries.

The member journal, Die TeXnische Komödie [de] (German, 'The TeXnical comedy', a pun on Dante's Divine Comedy referring back to the group's name), is published quarterly.

DANTE's international counterpart is the TeX Users Group (TUG) that was founded in 1980.