The TeX and LaTeX Catalogue

CTAN


This is a catalogue of TeX and LaTeX related packages and tools, mostly available on CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. Most entries have a link to a location on the local CTAN directory hierarchy which takes you to the source directory for that entry.

The catalogue is quite large (approaching 200K). It is advisable that you access it from your nearest CTAN under help/Catalogue/ (load either catalogue.html or catalogue.html.gz - the latter is about 10% the size of the former). The following is a collection of direct links to the catalogue directory on some of the alternative CTAN backbone nodes and mirrors:

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Alternatively, you could download and save locally the generic version (or the much smaller gzipped version) with links to the Walnut Creek archive.

In the following catalogue, links on the entry names take you directly to on-line documentation for that entry (these are either WWW home pages or gziped Postscript---or DVI---documents located at various places on the World Wide Web).

This catalogue is regularly updated. Comments, corrections, enhancements, and additions are more than welcome and can be sent to Graham.Williams@dit.csiro.au. The original source database is maintained in BibTeX format from Canberra, Australia.

The catalogue is organised alphabetically: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

This compilation Copyright © 1996 Graham J. Williams. Last Modified Monday, 5 August 1996 at 12:17 Permission is granted to redistribute this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).


A

a4

macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntgclass

Originally for LaTeX 2.09 but updated for LaTeX2e. Mostly superceded by LaTeX2e support for a4 paper but defines the extra option of widemargins. The geometry package is usually better. See also geometry, and a4wide.


a4wide

macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/

Increases the width of the printed area of the a4 page. The geometry package is usually better. See also geometry, and a4.


abbrevs

macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/

Macros to expand abbreviations to text and insert the proper following space depending on context. These macros can also expand to one thing the first time they are used and another thing on subsequent invocations (to automatically spell-out abbreviations or acronyms at their first use). A generic facility is also provided for suffixes like 1900\BC and 6:00\PM, which correctly handles following periods.


achemso

macros/latex/contrib/other/achemso/

LaTeX and BibTeX style for American Chemical Society


acronym

macros/latex/contrib/supported/acronym/

This package ensures that all acronyms used in the text are spelled out in full at least once. It also provides an environment to build a list of acronyms.


adobe

fonts/postscript/adobe/

Font metrics, and macro support in LaTeX2e, for a large set of Adobe fonts


adrlist

macros/latex/contrib/other/adrlist/

Using address lists in LaTeX


afterpage

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Implements a command that causes the commands specified in its argument to be expanded after the curent page is output. Useful to flush floats, for example.


aguplus

macros/latex/contrib/supported/aguplus/

Styles for American Geophysical Union


alatex

macros/alatex/

An extended LaTeX with better modularity


alg

macros/latex/contrib/other/alg/

LaTeX environments for typesetting algorithms


algorithms

macros/latex/contrib/supported/algorithms/

Defines a floating algorithm environment designed to work with the algorithmic package.


algorithmic

macros/latex/contrib/supported/algorithms/

Provides an environment for describing algorithms. Within an algorithmic a number of commands for typesetting popular algorithmic constructs are available.


alltt

macros/latex/base/

Defines the alltt environment which is like the verbatim environment except that \ and { have their usual meanings. Thus, other commands and environments can appear within an alltt environment. See also moreverb, verbatim, and vrb.


altfont

macros/latex/contrib/supported/altfont

A generalised replacement for some parts of psnfss and mfnfss. Similar to psfont with the Postscript specific code removed.


amsfonts

fonts/ams/amsfonts/

American Mathematical Society fonts


amslatex

fonts/ams/amslatex/

Sophisticated mathematical typesetting in LaTeX developed by the American Mathematical Society. Three classes are defined: amsart, amsproc, and amsbook.


amsmath

fonts/ams/amslatex/

Part of the AMS-LaTeX distribution, and the package to load (with \usepackage) if you want to use AMS-LaTeX. It provides a variety of mathematical features, largely derived from AMS-TeX.


amstex

macros/amstex/

American Mathematical Society plain TeX macros


answers

macros/latex/contrib/supported/answers/

Styles for setting questions (or exercises) and answers. See also exams.


apa

macros/latex/contrib/other/apa/

LaTeX class and BibTeX style used to format text according to the American Psychological Association Publication Manual (4th ed.) specifications for manuscripts or, with an option to the package, in an APA journal style format or as a regular document. See also apacite, and mslapa.


apacite

biblio/bibtex/contrib/

A BibTeX style which closely follows the APA style citation, claiming to provide the closest match. See also apa, and mslapa.


arabtex

language/arabtex/

Macros and fonts for typesetting Arabic


array

macros/latex/packages/tools/

An extended implementation of the array and tabular environments which implements options to format columns. The ! option, for example, is introduced with this package.


arseneau

Miscellaneous macros by Donald Arseneau.


ascii

fonts/ascii/

Support for IBM extended ASCII font.


astro

fonts/astro/

Astronomical (planetary) symbols


auctex

support/auctex/

Emacs Lisp support files for TeX


aurora

Header files for dvips to make colour separations


B

babel

macros/latex/packages/babel/

Multilingual support for LaTeX.


babelformats

Extra LaTeX formats for TeXLive, with different hyphenation patterns


bakoma

fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/

Computer Modern and AMS font in PostScript Type1 form


bar

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/

Provides the barenv environment for bar charts.


barcodes

fonts/barcodes/

Fonts for making barcodes. See also code128, and ean.


barr

macros/generic/diagrams/barr/

Diagram macros by Michael Barr.


bbding

fonts/bbding/

An NFSS-interface to the symbol font bbding containing many of the Zapf dingbats fonts.


bbm

fonts/cm/bbm/

Blackboard variant fonts for Computer Modern, with LaTeX support


bbtbase

Basic BibTeX styles


beebe

dviware/beebe/

Nelson Beebe's collection of TeX-related bibliographies, and BibTeX style files


beton

macros/latex/contrib/supported/beton/

Typeset a LaTeX2e document with the Concrete fonts designed by Don Knuth and used in his book ``Concrete Mathematics''. See also euler.


bh

fonts/psfonts/bh/

Font metrics, and macro support in LaTeX2e, for the Bigelow and Holmes Lucida fonts


biblist

macros/latex209/contrib/biblist/

BibTeX styles by Joachim Schrod


bitstrea

fonts/psfonts/bitstrea/

Font metrics, and macro support in LaTeX2e, for the free Bitstream fonts


bibtool

biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/

Command line manipulation of BibTeX files: Pretty-printing data bases; Syntactic checks with error recovery; Semantic checks. Sorting and merging of data bases; Generation of uniform reference keys according to predefined rules or according to user specification; Selecting references used in one publication which are found by analyzing an .aux file; Controlled rewriting of fields utilising regular expressions to specify the rewriting rules; Macro (String) expansion to eliminate the need of extra string definitions; Collecting statistics about one or more data bases.


blue

macros/blu/

Kees van der Laan's BLUe format, a concise but expressive document preparation system modelled on Knuth's manmac


booktabs

macros/latex/contrib/supported/booktabs/

Nicer layout of tables


boxedminipage

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/

A very old (LaTeX 2.09) style for producing boxed minipages. Refer to LaTeX2e's usrguide.tex for an example of how to define your own boxed minipage with little effort in LaTeX2e using the lrbox environment.


borceux

macros/generic/diagrams/borceux/

Diagram macros by Francois Borceux


brief

German private letter class with address boxes for window envelopes, a hook to put a figure or any kind of box in the top right corner, fold-marks (option falt), setting the text in informal \tt (option tt), configurable by a configuration file.


C

calc

macros/latex/contrib/supported/calc/

Adds infix expressions to perform arithmetic in the LaTeX commands \setcounter, \addtocounter, \setlength, and \addtolength.


calendar

macros/plain/contrib/

Plain macros for making nice calendars


calrsfs

macros/latex/contrib/other/calrsfs/

Nicer calligraphic letters. See also rsfs.


camel

macros/latex/contrib/supported/camel/

Comprehensive bibliography manager (prototype citation engine for LaTeX3). Will become BibTeX 1.0 on release. Under development.


caption

macros/latex/contrib/supported/caption/

Extends caption capabilities for figures and tables, such as the caption width, style, font. Many aspects are tunable as options.


caption2

macros/latex/contrib/supported/caption/

Newer version of the caption package. Extends caption capabilities for figures and tables, such as the caption width, style, font. Many aspects are tunable as options.


carlisle

macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/

Miscellaneous small packages by David Carlisle


catalogue

help/Catalogue

A catalogue of what's available on CTAN. Includes BibTeX source and HTML browseable versions. Oh, by the way, you are currently looking at it.


cellular

macros/plain/contrib/cellular/

Cellular table construction


changebar

macros/latex/contrib/supported/changebar/

Generate changebars in LaTeX documents.


chapterbib

macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite

Support multiple bibliographies, one for each \include file.


chemsym

macros/latex/contrib/other/chemsym/

Macros for typing chemical symbols


cherokee

fonts/cherokee/

Fonts for Cherokee scrips


chicago

biblio/bibtex/contrib/

A bibliography style.


chktex

support/chktex/

This program catches some typographic errors LaTeX overlooks, and can be viewed as Lint for LaTeX. Filters are also provided for checking the LaTeX parts of CWEB documents.


circ

macros/generic/diagrams/circ/

Macros for typesetting circuit diagrams.


cirth

fonts/cirth/

Fonts for Cirth


cite

macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite

Supports compressed, sorted lists of numerical citations: [8,11-16].


cjk

language/chinese/CJK

A macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean with LaTeX2e.


cm

fonts/cm/

Computer Modern fonts


cmbright

fonts/cmbright/

Computer Modern Bright fonts


cmcyralt

fonts/cmcyralt/

Alternative Russian encoding support


cmextra

macros/latex/base/

Extra Computer Modern fonts, from the American Mathematical Society


cmpica

fonts/cmpica/

A Computer Modern Pica variant


cmtt

macros/latex/contrib/supported/mdwtools

A package for handling the `cmtt' font better. It introduces a special encoding for the font, and provides a command which allows you to use all the characters without the disadvantages of verbatim text.


code128

macros/generic/code128

A set of barcode macros for the Code 128 standard. See also barcodes, and ean.


codepage

macros/latex/contrib/supported/codepage/

Support for variant code pages.


color

macros/latex/packages/graphics/

Allows text and page background colors to be set.


colorsep

Support for colour separation when using dvips


colortab

graphics/pstricks/inputs/

Lets you shade or color the cells in the alignment environments such as \halign and LaTeX's tabular and array environments.


comment

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/

Selectively include/exclude pieces of text. The user can define new comment versions, and each is controlled separately. Special comments can be defined where the user specifies the action that is to be taken with each comment line.


compsci

macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/

Macros for writing about macros, most often used to supplement the `ltxdoc' class.


concmath

fonts/concmath/

fonts for Concrete Mathematics


concrete

fonts/concrete/

Concrete fonts


config

systems/unix/teTeX/contrib/

Configuration files for \teTeX


count1to

macros/latex/contrib/supported/count1to/

Setting \count1 to \count9


croatian

language/croatian/

Fonts for typesetting Croatian scripts


curves

macros/latex/contrib/supported/curves/

Draws curves in the LaTeX picture environment using parabolas between points with continuous slope at points. Equivalent to technical pens with compasses and French curves.


custom-bib

macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib/

Package generating customized BibTeX bibliography styles from a generic file using docstrip.


cwebbin

web/c_cpp/cwebbin

CWEB for the Commodore Amiga with SAS/C++ 6.56, MS/DOS with Borland C++ 3.1, and UNIX with CC or GCC. TeX macros and CWEB macros are provided for German, French, and Italian program documentation on any machine.


D

dancers

fonts/dancers/

Font for the Sherlock Holmes `Dancing Men'


dc

fonts/dc/

The Extended/European (Cork) Computer Modern fonts.


dcolumn

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Align on the decimal point of numbers in tabulars.


delarray

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Add delimiters (parentheses etc.) around arrays (nesting brackets are automatically inserted).


deleq

macros/latex/contrib/other/deleq/

Provides a more flexible numbering of equations, subequations, and `recycled' equations, including `partial' equation numbers (`3a', `3b' etc.).


devanagari

language/devanagari/

Fonts for typesetting Devanagari


dialogl

macros/latex/contrib/supported/dialogl/

Macros for constructing interactive LaTeX scripts


dinbrief

macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief/

German letter DIN style


ditheaders

A local package for including standard headers and footers on the page.


doc

macros/latex/base/

Contains the definitions that are necessary to format the documentation of package files (Literate LaTeX).


docstrip

macros/latex/base/

Makes a package documentation file smaller by removing comments and other sections of the document conditionally.


dotseqn

macros/latex/contrib/other/dotseqn/

Flush left equations with dotted letters to the numbers


doublespace

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/

Defines the spacing environment which you can use anywhere in your document. This package is superceded by setspace.


draftcopy

macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy/

Places the word DRAFT (or other words) in light grey diagonally across the background (or at the bottom) of each (or selected) pages of the document.


drafthead

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/

Prints a header on each page including date and time and the string DRAFT.


dratex

macros/generic/dratex/

General drawing macros entirely in TeX


drftcite

macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite

Print the tags instead of the numbers for \cite and \bibitem.


dropcaps

macros/latex209/contrib/dropcaps/

Use dropped capitals to start a paragraph. See also dropping.


dropping

macros/latex/contrib/other/dropping/

A LaTeX2e macro for dropping the first character(s) (or word(s)) of a paragraph. This is an extension of the LaTeX 2.09 package dropcaps. This package automatically takes care of finding the font name.


duerer

fonts/duerer/

Computer Duerer fonts


dvi2tty

dviware/dvi2tty/

A DVI driver to produce an ASCII representation of the document. The patch file dvi2tty.patch fixes a string termination bug which affects some systems (most notably Linux) and cleans up the Makefile.


dvips

dviware/dvips/

Tom Rokicki's dvi to PostScript driver


E

ean

macros/generic/ean/

Font for making EAN barcodes. See also barcodes, and code128.


easyeqn

macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy

A simple package for writing equations.


easymat

macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy

A simple package for writing block matrices, essentially an array enviroment with more kinds of lines and reentrant.


easyvet

macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy

A simple package for writing vectors in a C-like fashion.


edmac

macros/plain/contrib/edmac/

A macro package for typesetting scholarly critical editions


eepic

macros/latex209/contrib/eepic/

A set of TeX macros for LaTeX implementing several extensions to EPIC and the LaTeX picture drawing environment, including the drawing of lines at any slope, the drawing of circles in any radii, and the drawing of dotted and dashed lines much faster with much less TeX memory, and providing several new commands for drawing ellipsis, arcs, splines, and filled cirlces and ellipsis.


elsevier

macros/latex/contrib/supported/elsevier/

Preprint style for Elsevier Science journals


elvish

fonts/elvish/

Font for typesetting Tolkienn Elvish script


endfloat

macros/latex/contrib/supported/endfloat/

Place all figures on pages by themselves at the end of the document with markers like ``[Figure 3 about here]'' appearing in the text (by default) near to where the figure (or table) would normally have occurred.


endnotes

Accumulates footnotes and places them at the end of the document.


engwar

fonts/engwar/

Font for typesetting Tolkien Engwar script, by Michael Urban


enumerate

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Adds an optional argument to the enumerate environment which determines the style in which the counter is printed.


envbig

macros/latex/contrib/other/envbig/

Printing addresses on enevlopes


envlab

macros/latex/contrib/supported/envlab

A LaTeX2e package for producing mailing envelopes and labels, including barcodes and address formatting according to the US Postal Service rules. Redefines the standard \makelabels command of the LaTeX2e letter documentclass.


eplain

macros/eplain/

Simple but powerful extended version of the plain format


epsfig

macros/latex/packages/graphics/

Include Encapsulated Postscript in LaTeX documents.


epslatex

info/

An extensive document which explains how to use Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files in LaTeX2e documents. Includes explanations of Bounding Boxes, and more.


eqnarray

macros/latex/contrib/supported/eqnarray/

More generalised equation arrays with numbering.


euler

macros/latex/contrib/supported/euler/

Provides a setup for using the AMS Euler family of fonts for math in LaTeX documents. ``The underlying philosophy of Zapf's Euler design was to capture the flavor of mathematics as it might be written by a mathematician with excellent handwriting.'' [concrete-tug] The euler package is based on Knuth's macros for the book ``Concrete Mathematics''. The text fonts for the Conrete book are provided by the beton package. See also beton.


everysel

macros/latex/contrib/supported/everysel

LaTeX package which provides hooks into selectfont.


everyshi

macros/latex/contrib/supported/everyshi/

Hooks for taking action at every \shipout


exams

macros/latex/contrib/supported/exams

Exam questions can be multiple choice or free form long/short answer questions. Options include the typesetting of the exam itself, an exam showing all the answers and a collection of questions and answers. Questions can be parametrized. Use of a random generator provides for automatic shuffling of multiple choice items. See also answers.


expdlist

macros/latex/contrib/supported/expdlist/

Expanded description environments


exscale

macros/latex/base/

Implements scaling of the `cmex' fonts.


extrabin

Extra support programs added to \teTeX for TeXLive


F

fancybox

macros/latex/contrib/other/seminar/inputs/

Provides variants of \fbox: \shadowbox, \doublebox, \ovalbox, \Ovalbox, with helpful tools for using box macros and flexible verbatim macros. You can box mathematics, floats, center, flushleft, and flushright, lists, and pages.


fancyheadings

macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings/

Better control over page headers and footers in LaTeX. This is an up-to-date version for LaTeX. For LaTeX2e it is now called fancyhdr.


fancyhdr

macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr/

Support for sophisticated control of page headers and footers in LaTeX2e. It supercedes fancyheadings.


fancyvrb

Sophisticated handling of verbatim text, to write it out, read it in, and typeset it


faq

usergrps/uktug/faq/

The New TeX Frequently Asked Questions, maintained by the UK TeX Users Group


fax

macros/latex/contrib/supported/fax/

Document class for preparing faxes.


fc

fonts/fc/

Fonts for African languages, complimentary to Computer Modern


feynmf

macros/latex/contrib/supported/feynmf/

Macros and fonts for creating Feynman (and other) diagrams.


filehdr

tools/filehdr

A colleciton of tools to support BibTeX style format for file/package descriptions.


flatten

/support/flatten

A program to flatten a LaTeX root file by copying \input and \include files into the root file.


float

macros/latex/contrib/supported/float/

Improves the interface for defining floating objects such as figures and tables. Introduces the boxed float and the ruled float. You can define your own floats and improve the behaviour of the old ones. Also incorporates the H option of the superceded here package. You can select this as automatic default with \floatplacement{figure}{H}


floatfig

macros/latex/contrib/other/floatflt/

Allows text to be wrapped around figures.


floatflt

macros/latex/contrib/other/floatflt

Float text around figures and tables which do not span the full width of a page. This is an improved version of floatfig. It is more or less similar floatingtable. The tables/figures can be set left/right or alternating on even/odd pages. Works with the multicol package. Doesn't work well in the neighbourhood of list environments unless you change your LaTeX document.


fnpara

macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/

Typeset footnotes in run-on paragraphs, instead of one above another.


foiltex

macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex/

A LaTeX2e class for overhead transparencies. Can be used with fancybox to place a variety of borders around the slides. See also seminar, and slidenotes.


fontinst

fonts/utilities/fontinst/

TeX macros for converting Adobe Font Metric files to TeX metric and virtual font format


fontmisc

Miscellaneous MetaFont input files


fontname

Karl Berry's scheme for naming fonts in TeX


fonts

Extra line and circle fonts for LaTeX


fontsmpl

macros/latex/packages/tools/fontsmpl.dtx

Print a sample of a font.


footnote

macros/latex/contrib/supported/footnote/

More sophisticated footnotes.


footnpag

macros/latex/contrib/supported/footnpag/

Allows footnotes on indivifual pages to be numbered from 1.


formats

Prebuilt TeX format and MetaFont base files


formlett

macros/generic/formlett.sty

Letters to multiple receivers.


fp

macros/latex/contrib/other/fp

Provides an extensive collectionof arithmetic operations for fixed point real numbers of high precision.


french

language/french/

Style for French typography


ftnright

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Footnotes in two column documents.


funnelweb

web/funnelAC/

A `Literate Programming' tool, which produces documentation for programs in TeX or LaTeX.


futhark

fonts/futhark/

Fonts for the Older Futhark script


G

g-brief

macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief/

German letter style.


gb4e

macros/latex/contrib/supported/gb4e/

Government Binding styles.


genealogy

fonts/genealogy

A simple compilation of the genealogical symbols found in the `wasy' and `gen' font. Essentially adda the male and female symbols to Knuth's `gen' font. It avoids loading two fonts when you need only genealogical symbols.


general

General TeX world documentation.


genmisc

Miscellaneous small files for all formats, specific to the TeXLive CD-ROM.


geometry

macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry

A package which allows LaTeX2e users to customise page layout (page sizes) using an easy and flexible user interface. You can specify \geometry{body={6.5in,8.75in}, top=1.2in, left=2cm, nohead}. This is an update of the now superseded pagesize package. See also vmargin, typearea, a4, and a4wide.


german

language/german/

Style for German typography.


gnuplot

graphics/gnuplot/

Generate almost any type of chart you wish and save it in LaTeX format or as EPS (or in any of a dozen other formats).


gnuplot

A package to faciliate the use of gnuplot pslatex output in LaTeX.


gothic

fonts/gothic/

Gothic fonts


graphics

macros/latex/packages/graphics/

The primary LaTeX package for the support of the inclusion of graphics generally produced with other tools. This package aims to give a consistent interface to including the file types that are understood by your printer driver. See also graphixs.


graphixs

macros/latex/packages/graphics/

Better support for graphics. Builds upon the graphics package.


graphpap

macros/latex/base/

For producing graph paper.


gray

fonts/cm/utilityfonts/gray/

Fonts for gray scales


H

hands

fonts/hands/

Pointing hand fonts


hangcaption

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/

Defines a variant of the caption command to produce captions with hanging indentation.


harpoon

macros/latex/contrib/supported/harpoon/

Extra harpoons, using the graphics package


harvard

biblio/bibtex/contrib/

The Harvard bibliography style family.


harvmac

macros/plain/contrib/harvmac/

Paul Ginsparg's Harvard macros for scientific articles


here

Provides the H option for floats in LaTeX to mean that the float should really be placed here. It has been removed from CTAN at the request of the author. LaTeX2e now has a ! option and [!ht] usually does what the user of H expects and has the big advantage of guaranteeing that floats stay in the right order. See the float package for an alternative which does include H for LaTeX2e.


hh

macros/latex/contrib/supported/hh/

Fancy boxing effects


hhline

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Better horizontal lines in tabulars and arrays.


hlatex

language/korean/HLaTeX

Support for Korean documents written in Korean standard KSC codes for latex2e.


hrhyph

Hyphenation patterns for the Croatian language for use with T1 (and OT1) encoding as supported in DC fonts.


html

support/html/

Various TeX documentation converted to HTML


hyper

macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper/

Redefines LaTeX cross-referencing commands to insert \verb\special commands for HyperTeX dvi viewers


hyperref

macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyperref/

Redefines LaTeX cross-referencing commands to insert \special commands for HyperTeX dvi viewers, or translation to Acrobat.


I

ieeepes

macros/latex/contrib/supported/ieeepes

Allows typesetting of transactions, as well as discussions and closures, for the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transactions journals.


ifacmtg

macros/latex/contrib/supported/ifacmtg/

Elsevier Science preprint style for IFAC meetings


ifthen

macros/latex/base/

Conditionals in LaTeX2e documents.


indentfirst

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Indent first paragraph after section header.


indxcite

macros/latex/contrib/supported/indxcite/

A package to automatically generate an Author Index based on citations made using BibTeX. It requires the use of the harvard and index packages and LaTeX2e.


info

Documentation in GNU info form


initials

fonts/gothic/yinit/

A special font (yinit) is defined to be used for initial dropped capitals.


inputenc

macros/latex/base/

Controlling inpout encoding


ipa

macros/latex/contrib/other/ipa/

Style for using International Phonetic Alphabet fonts


isostds

macros/latex/contrib/supported/isostds

Class and package files for typesetting ISO International Standard documents. Several standard documents have been printed by ISO from camera-ready copy prepared using LaTeX and these files. One set of files is for generic ISO typesetting and the other is an extension set of packages for typesetting ISO 10303 standards.


ithyph

languages/italian/

Italian hyphenation.


J

jknappen

macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen/

Miscellaneous macros, mostly for making use of extra fonts by J\"org Knappen


js-misc

macros/plain/contrib/js-misc/

Miscellaneous useful macros by Joachim Schrod


jura

macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/

A document class for German law students.


K

knuth

systems/knuth/

Knuth's own documentation, including the TeX book and the MetaFont book


koma-script

macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script/

A replacement for the article/report/book classes with emphasis on European rules of typography and paper formats as laid down by Jan Tschichold.


kuvio

macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio/

Drawing macros and fonts for diagrams.


L

labels

macros/latex/contrib/supported/labels/

Support for printing sheets of sticky labels (but could also be used for business cards). The number of rows and columns of labels, and their size, can be changed.


lamstex

macros/lamstex/

A merge of the best in AMSTeX and LaTeX


lastpage

macros/latex/contrib/other/lastpage/

Reference the number of pages in your LaTeX document (as in a page footer that says: Page N of M).


latex

macros/latex/

LaTeX is a (and probably the most) popular macro package for TeX. Provides many basic document formating commands extended by many of the packages included in this current list. See also latex2e, and latex209.


latex209

macros/latex209/

The pre-1993 LaTeX, now no longer supported See also latex2e, and latex.


latex2e

info/latex2e-help-texinfo/

Documentaion on LaTeX2e in OS/2 hypertext format and html. See also latex, and latex209.


latex2html

support/latex2html/

A Perl program that translates LaTeX source files into HTML (HyperText Markup Language). For each source file given as an argument the translator will create a directory containing the corresponding HTML files.


latex2rtf

support/latex2rtf/

Translates LaTeX text into RTF (Rich Text Format as used by Microsoft Word) See also tex2rtf.


latexmk

support/latexmk

Deals with the task of running LaTeX the appropriate number of times. Also supports printing and viewing.


layout

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Show the page layout.


levy

macros/latex/contrib/supported/levy/

Macros for using Silvio Levy's Greek fonts


lgreek

macros/latex/contrib/other/lgreek/

Macros for using Silvio Levy's Greek fonts


lgrind

support/lgrind/

Prepares various programming language source code (e.g., C, C++, Pascal, BASIC, Modula-2, Fortran, RATFOR, Yacc, PostScript, Prolog, MLisp, Icon, LaTeX, Perl, CSH, Bourne Shell, assembler, 68000 assembler, asm68, VMS assembler, ISP, LDL, Linda, MODEL, MatLab, Russell) for pretty-printing within LaTeX.


lineno

macros/latex/contrib/supported/lineno/

Adds line numbers to selected paragraphs with reference possible through the LaTeX \ref and \pageref cross reference mechanism. Version 2.00 supports numbering of one in five lines and switching the line numbers from the left to the right side of the page in twoside mode. See also numline.


lips

macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/

Text ellipses that are better for text ellipses than \dots, by the standard of the Chicago Manual of Style.


localloc

macros/latex/contrib/supported/localloc/

Macros for localizing TeX register allocations


logic

fonts/logic/

Logic symbols in MetaFont font


lollipop

macros/lollipop/

A new generation format


longtable

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Support for tables longer than a page.


losymbol

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/

Defines a lost of symbols macro.


lscape

macros/latex/packages/graphics/

Put selected parts of document in landscape.


lshort2e

info/lshort/

A short introduction to LaTeX2e


ltablex

macros/latex/contrib/supported/ltablex/

Modifies the tabularx environment to combine the features of the tabularx package (auto-sized columns in a fixed width table) with those of the longtable package (multi-page tables).


ltx2x

/support/ltx2x

A program to replace LaTeX commands by user-defined characters. Typical uses are for deTeXing and pretty-printing, or for replacing LaTeX commands by SGML tags, or ...


ltxbase

macros/latex/base

The core LaTeX


ltxdoc

macros/latex/base/

Class for documented LaTeX2e classes.


ltxmisc

macros/latex/contrib/other/misc

Miscellaneus LaTeX styles


ltxsrc

macros/latex/base

The core source files for LaTeX2e


M

mailing

macros/latex/contrib/supported/mailing/

Macros for mail merging


makeindex

indexing/makeindex/

Documentation for the Makeindex program


malvern

fonts/malvern/

A new sans-serif font family


mapcodes

macros/latex/contrib/supported/mapcodes/

Support for multiple character sets and encodings


maple

macros/latex/contrib/supported/maple/

Styles and examples for the MAPLE newsletter


maplems

Export Maple worksheets to LaTeX2e.


mathptm

macros/latex/packages/psnfss

Extends the usage of the Postscript times fonts to the math environment.


mathspad

support/mathspad

An XWindows WYSIWYG structure editor implementing stencils which define two views of a document, the on-screen view and the output view (which might be LaTeX, TeX, HTML, trof).


mathtime

fonts/metrics/adobe/mathtime

The Mathtime fonts have a number of characters remapped to positions different from the ones normally used by the corresponding TeX CM-fonts. For the symbol font "operators" the corresponding mathtime style files use the Times Roman font (often called something like: ptmr or ptmr7t or ptmrq).


mcite

macros/latex/contrib/supported/mcite/

Support for collapsing multiple citations into one, as custumoary in physics journals


mdwtools

macros/latex/contrib/supported/mdwtools

Miscellaneous tools by Mark Wooding, including support for @, a doafter command, footnotes, mathenv for various alignment in maths, list handling, trivial maths oddments, rewrite of LaTeX's tabular and array environments, varbatim handling, and syntax diagrams.


metapost

graphics/metapost/

A tool based on MetaFont for producing precise technical illustrations, creating scalable postscript instead of bitmaps.


mflogo

macros/latex/contrib/supported/mflogo/

Fonts and font definition files for setting the MetaFont logo


mfnfss

macros/latex/packages/mfnfss/

Font description files for extra fonts like yinit and ygoth


midnight

macros/generic/midnight/

A set of useful macro tools


miniltx

macros/plain/graphics/

Part of the plain TeX graphics collection which allows the use of LaTeX's graphics, colour, and picture mode commands in plain TeX based formats.


minitoc

macros/latex/contrib/supported/minitoc/

Table of contents per chapter.


misc209

macros/latex209/contrib

A set of LaTeX 209 small macro packages, not formally ported to LaTeX2e, but which probably work


mla

biblio/bibtex/contrib/mla

Do citations according to the `MLA style sheet'.


mnras

macros/latex209/contrib/mnras/

Styles for the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society


monotype

fonts/psfonts/monotype/

Font metrics, and macro support in LaTeX2e, for a large set of Monotype fonts


monster

macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/

Towards a more rational and modular LaTeX, by Matt Swift; a set of powerful tools


moredefs

macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/

A collection of defining, expansion, and debugging commands that support `elegant' programming in LaTeX.


moreverb

macros/latex/contrib/supported/moreverb/

A verbatim mode that can handle TABs properly, can number lines, can number lines in an included file, can produce boxed verbatims, etc. See also alltt, verbatim, and vrb.


mslapa

macros/latex/contrib/supported/mslapa/

LaTeX and BibTeX style files for a respectably close approximation to APA (American Psychological Association) citation and reference style. See also apacite, and apa.


mtbe

macros/plain/contrib/mtbe/

Examples from Mathematical TeX by Example by Arvind Borde


multi

An extra header file for dvips to support multiple pages on one phusical page


multicol

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Mix single and multiple columns. Allows you to shift between two and one columns anywhere.


multirow

macros/latex209/contrib/

Creates tabular cells spanning multiple rows.


musicref

Reference page for musictex.


musictex

macros/musictex/

Typesetting music with TeX.


musixtex

macros/musixtex/

Extended MusicTeX, with better slurs


myletter

macros/latex/contrib/supported/myletter/

An advanced letter document class which extends LaTeX's usual letter class. Provides support for building your own letterhead; can mark fold points for window envelopes; and more. Documentation in German, but sample file is sufficient for a basic understanding.


N

natbib

macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib/

A bibliography style that handles author-year and numbered references.


newalg

macros/latex/contrib/supported/newalg/

Format algoritms like Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest.


newsletr

macros/plain/contrib/newsletr/

Macros for making newsletters


niceframe

macros/latex/contrib/supported/niceframe/

Support for fancy framing of pages


noindent

A locally developed style to inhibit all indentation.


nomencl

macros/latex/contrib/supported/nomencl

Nomenclature package for producing lists of symbols using the capabilities of the MakeIndex program.


ntgclass

macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntgclass/

Versions of the standard LaTeX article and report classes, rewritten to reflect a more European design, by the Dutch TeX Users Group


numline

macros/latex/contrib/supported/numline/

Macros for numbering lines. See also lineno.


O

objectz

macros/latex/contrib/supported/objectz/

Macros for typesetting Object Z


oca

fonts/oca

MetaFont definition for OCR-A Optical Character Recognition Font


ocr-a

fonts/ocr-a

Fonts for OCR-A


ocr-b

fonts/ocr-b

Fonts for OCR-A


ogham

fonts/ogham/

Fonts for typesetting Ogham script


ogonek

macros/latex/contrib/other/ogonek/

Support for Polish typography and the ogonek


oldstyle

macros/latex/contrib/other/oldstyle/

Font information needed to load the cmmi and cmmib fonts for use to produce oldstyle numbers


onepagem

macros/latex/contrib/supported/piff/

If the document has only one page, omit page number. The page number must be produced by the usual means of \thepage.


osmanian

fonts/osmanian/

Osmanian fonts by Alan Stanier for writing Somali


ot2cyr

fonts/ot2cyr/

Macros to use to the OT2 Cyrillic encoding


overcite

macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite

Supports compressed, sorted lists of superscript numerical citations.


P

pagedraw

graphics/pagedraw

A free vector-graphics program capable of creating EPS files suitable for inclusion in TeX documents.


pandora

fonts/pandora/

The Pandora font family


paper

macros/latex/contrib/supported/paper

A class derived from article, tuned for producing papers for journals. Introduces new layout options and font commands for sections/parts. Defines a new keywords environment, and subtitle and institution commands for the title section. New commands for revisions. And more.


paradissa

fonts/cm/ps-type1/paradissa

Free TeX fonts in PostScript (Type1) format. Contains the families: Computer Modern (designed by D. Knuth); Euler (H. Zapf); Computer Modern Cyrillic (N. Glonty and A. Samarin); Special LaTeX fonts.


parallel

macros/latex/contrib/supported/parallel/

Provides a parallel environment which allows two columns of text to be typeset. Useful for typesetting two languages side-by-side.


patch

A tool for replacing just parts of existing macros by user defined parts. If those parts are no longer recognizable, an~error message is produced, calling the user to~attention.


path

macros/eplain/

A LaTeX package to break long strings at convenient places. The strings might be directory paths, email addresses, URLs, etc.


pb-diagram

macros/latex/contrib/supported/pb-diagram/

Diagram package, using LAMSTeX fonts, by Paul Burchard.


pdcmac

macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac/

Damian Cugley's macro tools.


pdf

Documentation in Acrobat PDF form.


phonetic

fonts/phonetic/

MetaFont Phonetic fonts, based on Computer Modern


phppcf

biblio/bibtex/contrib/

A BibTeX style derived from apalike with author names in all caps.


phyzzx

macros/phyzzx/

A TeX format for physicists


picinpar

macros/latex209/contrib/picinpar/

Insert pictures into paragraphs. (NOTE: Piet van Oostrum does not recommend this package. Picins is recommended instead.)


picins

macros/latex209/contrib/picins/

Insert pictures into paragraphs.


pictex

graphics/pictex/

Picture drawing macros for LaTeX.


piff

macros/latex/contrib/supported/piff/

Macro tools by Mike Piff


pk-canonex

PK fonts for 600 dpi Canon engine


pk-cx

PK fonts for 300 dpi Canon engine


pk-deskjet

PK fonts for HP Desket


pk-epson

PK fonts for Epson dot matrix


pk-ibmvga

PK fonts for IBM VGA screen resolution


pk-ljfour

PK fonts for 600 dpi LaserJet 4


pk-qms

PK fonts for 300 dpi write-white QMS printer


pk-toshiba

PK fonts for Toshiba dot matrix printer


plain

macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/

The plain.sty package defines an environment which allows plain TeX commands in LaTeX.


plainmisc

macros/plain/contrib/misc/

Miscellaneous useful macros for plain TeX


plaintex

Basic Plain TeX macros


plfonts

language/polish/plfonts/

Computer Modern variant fonts for Polish


plgraph

LaTeX graphics package with wrapper to allow it to be used with generic plain TeX


pmcstex

systems/os2/pmcstex

A macro package that implements many (em)TeX related features for the EPM editor. A menu item is added to the EPM menu, a new toolbar is provided, and hotkeys for some (La)TeX commands are defined.


prelim2e

macros/latex/contrib/supported/prelim2e/

Allows the marking of preliminary versions of a document


prettyref

macros/latex/contrib/supported/prettyref/

Additional functionality to LaTeX2e label--reference mechanism. It allows the author to ``preformat'' all types of labels.


progkeys

macros/latex/contrib/supported/progkeys/

The file `programs.sty' is intended to allow a parameterized way of typesetting programs with TeX/LaTeX commands inside. The file `keywords.sty' allows use and define sets of keywords that will be typeset with different fonts, according to the wish of the user.


program

macros/latex/contrib/supported/program/

Typesetting programs and algorithms


psboxit

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/

Enables one to put a PostScript drawing behind a TeX box. The drawing is parametrised by the position and the size of the TeX box.


psfont

macros/latex/contrib/supported/altfont

Intended as a replacement for psfonts of psnfss, psfont uses one file for redefining all default fonts instead of one file for each font. It also contains all parts of psfonts.dtx which are not covered by this general concept (i.e., the pifonts, mathptm and two .fd-files for Adobe Symbol and Adobe Zapf Dingbats). This file is specific to PostScript fonts. See also psfonts, and psnfss.


psfonts

fonts/psfonts/

Postscript fonts for use with TeX and LaTeX.


psfrag

macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag

Extracts position, orientation, and content of text in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) documents to allow text fragments to be replaced with other LaTeX text fragments (to overcome the problems one normally has to put LaTeX text in EPS figures made with applications with limited typesetting abilities.


psizzl

macros/psizzl/

A TeX format from SLAC


pslatex

macros/latex/contrib/supported/pslatex

A small package that makes LaTeX default to `standard' PostScript fonts. It is basically a merger of the times and mathptm styles from the psnfss suite of packages. You must have installed standard LaTeX (LaTeX2e) and psnfss PostScript fonts to use this package. The main novel feature is that the pslatex package tries to compensate for the visual differences between the Adobe fonts by scaling Helvetica by 90\%, and `condensing' Courier (ie scaling horizontally) by 85\%. The package is supplied with a (unix) shell file for a `pslatex' command that allows standard LaTeX documents to be processed, without needing to edit the file.


psnfss

macros/latex/packages/psnfss/

Font definition files, macros and font metrics for common PostScript fonts


pspicture

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/

Replacement for core LaTeX picture macros to use PostScript \special commands


pstricks

graphics/pstricks/

An extensive collection of PostScript macros that is compatible with most TeX macro packages, including Plain TeX, LaTeX, AmSTeX, and AmS-LaTeX. Included are macros for color, graphics, pie charts, rotation, trees and overlays. It has many special features, including: a wide variety of graphics (picture drawing) macros, with a flexible interface and with color support; There are macros for coloring or shading the cells of tables.


psutils

support/psutils/

Utilities for manipulating PostScript documents, including page selection and rearrangement, resizing the page, arrangement into signatures for booklet printing, and page merging for n-up printing. Utilities include psbook, psselect, pstops, psnup, psresize, epsffit.


punk

fonts/punk/

Donald Knuth's punk font


Q

qobitree

macros/latex/contrib/other/qobitree/

LaTeX macros for typesetting trees


qsymbols

macros/latex/contrib/supported/qsymbols/

For defining systematic mnemonic abbreviations, starting with ` for math symbols and \" for arrows, from the amssymb and stmaryrd packages


R

ragged

macros/generic

Provides any TeX format (including LaTeX) with `raggedleft' and `raggedcenter' formatting of paragraphs while maintaining full control of hyphenation and degree of raggedness.


ragged2e

macros/latex/contrib/supported/ragged2e

LaTeX package which defines new commands \Centering, \RaggedLeft, and \RaggedRight and new environments Center, FlushLeft, and FlushRight, which set ragged text and are easily configurable to allow hyphenation.


rangecite

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/

Will turn a range of citations into something like [1..3]. See also cite.


rcs

macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcs

Use RCS (revision control system) tags in LaTeX documents.


realcalc

macros/generic/realcalc/

Macros for real arithmetic calculations


refman

macros/latex/contrib/supported/refman/

Variant report and article styles


relsize

macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/

Set the font size relative to the current font size.


revtex

macros/latex209/contrib/revtex/

Styles for American Physical Society, American Institute of Physics, and Optical Society of America


rsfs

fonts/rsfs/

Contains MetaFont sources for fonts of uppercase script letters for use as symbols in scientific and mathematical typesetting, in contrast to the informal script fonts such as that used for the `calligraphic' symbols in the TeX math symbol font. See also calrsfs.


rotating

macros/latex/contrib/supported/rotating/

A package built on the standard LaTeX graphics package to perform all the different sorts of rotation one might like, including complete figures and tables and captions. See also graphics.


rotfloat

macros/latex/contrib/supported/rotfloat/

Rotate floats.


rplain

macros/latex/contrib/supported/rplain/

Redefines the `plain' pagestyle. The page numbers are now in the lower right corner.


ruler

macros/generic/ruler.tex

A ruler for TeX.


S

s2latex

support/s2latex/

A scribe to LaTeX converter. The patchfile s2latex.patch provides a port to ANSI C and cleans up the Makefile.


sanskrit

language/sanskrit/

A font and pre-processor suitable for the production of documents written in Sanskrit.


sauter

fonts/cm/sauter/

Extensions to the CM fonts, providing a parameterization scheme to build fonts at true design sizes


script

macros/latex/contrib/other/script/

Variant report / book styles


semantic

macros/latex/contrib/supported/

Eases the typesetting of notation of semantics and compilers. Includes T-diagrams, various derivation symbols and inference threes.


seminar

macros/latex/contrib/other/seminar/

Produce overhead slides (transparencies) with bells and whistles. See also foiltex, and slidenotes.


setspace

macros/latex/contrib/supported/setspace/

Provides commands and environments for doing double and one-and-a-half line spacing based on pt size. If a different spacing is required then the \setstretch{baselinestretch} command is supported. The spacing environment takes one argument which is the baselinestretch to use, e.g., \begin{spacing}{2.5}.


shadbox

macros/latex/contrib/other/shadbox

A tool to shade the background of any box - text, figure, table etc., using Plain(La) TeX.


shadethm

macros/latex/contrib/supported/shadethm/

Package that allows declarations of the form \newshadetheorem{thm}{Theorem} or \newshadetheorem{}[]{} or \newshadetheorem{}{}[] to produce shaded boxes from the usual command \begin{theorem} \ldots \end{theorem}. The color package is required


shalom

A package intended for simple documents with some Hebrew (using some words, an address, a short abstract, without fussing around with TeX--Xet, hebrew screen fonts or keyboard encodings).


shapepar

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/

A macro to typeset paragraphs in specific shapes.


showkeys

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Show label, ref, cite and bib keys.


showlabels

macros/latex/contrib/supported/showlabels/

Show label commands in the margin.


siam

macros/latex/contrib/other/siam/

Styles for SIAM publications


siggraph

macros/latex/contrib/supported/siggraph/

Document class for formatting papers according to the specifications for submission to the annual ACM Siggraph conference


slemph

macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/

Provides the commands \itswitch, \slswitch, \textitswitch, and \textslswitch.


slidenotes

macros/latex/contrib/supported/slidenotes

A class package for the easy production of a slide collection with annotations. Builds on the report style (or variants). See also foiltex, and seminar.


slides

macros/latex/base/

This is a standard LaTeX class for production of overhead transparencies (foils). Can be used in conjunction with lscape and fancyheadings, for example.


smallcap

macros/latex/contrib/other/smallcap

Support for all 4 shapes of Small caps in DC1.3 where SC becomes a family, rather than a shape (\scshape is replaced by \scfamily). Thus you can write \bf\scfamily\slshape to get small caps bold slanted


spanish

language/spanish

Various TeX related files for typesetting documents written in Spanish, including hyphenation and dictionaries.


sober

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/

Reduces the amount of white space on the page (by reducing the size of various skips. Apparently does not work with LaTeX2e, but an updated version is available from Piet van Oostrum.


sprite

graphics/bit2spr/

Macros to set bitmaps with TeX


ssqquote

macros/latex/contrib/supported/ssqquote/

Font definition file and a little package file for LaTeX2e to access the cmssq fonts, i.e. Computer Modern Sans Serif Quotation Style


stmaryrd

fonts/stmaryrd/

St Mary Road symbols for functional programming.


subeqnarray

macros/latex/contrib/supported/subeqnarray/

Equation array with sub numbering.


subfigure

macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfigure/

Figures divided into subfigures.


supertabular

macros/latex/contrib/supported/supertabular/

Another multi-page tables package.


swift

macros/latex/contrib/other/swift/

Miscellaneous macros by Matt Swift


syntonly

macros/latex/base/

Implements the \syntaxonly declaration used for running a document through LaTeX without actually getting any output.


T

tabularx

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Tabulars that widen automatically.


taylor

macros/generic/diagrams/taylor/

Diagram macros by Paul Taylor


tbe

macros/plain/contrib/tbe/

Examples from Arvind Borde's TeX by Example


techexplorer

IBM's TechExplorer is a plugin for Netscape which allows you to view TeX source files in Netscape as if you were using a dvi viewer. Available only for Windows 3.1 and Windows95. Free but has a restrictive license.


tengwar

fonts/tengwar/

Font for typesetting Tolkien Tengwar script, by Michael Urban


tensor

macros/latex/contrib/supported/piff/

A package which allows the user to set tensor-style super and subscripts with offsets between successive indices.


testmath

Examples of the AmSLaTeX package.


tetex

systems/unix/teTeX/

A TeX distribution for Unix/Linux which is very easy to install and customise with well organised inputs tree, and fast file searching.)


tetexdoc

Documentation for \teTeX


tex-math

systems/os2/doc/TeX-Math/

A summary of TeX-commands used to create mathematical formulae (and certain other special characters). It can be viewed on any machine that runs OS/2.


tex2rtf

support/tex2rtf/

Translates LaTeX text into RTF (Rich Text Format used by Microsoft Word), into Windows Help RTF, into HTML and into wxHelp. Implemented using the free C++ class library wxWindows. See also latex2rtf.


texconv

A list of packages for converting between LaTeX and TeX documents and a variety of other formats including RTF, Word, and Wordperfect.


texdraw

graphics/texdraw/

Graphical macros, using embedded PostScript.


texed

systems/os2/texed

A TeX shell for OS/2


texi2www

Converts texinfo to HTML.


texip

macros/tip/

Macros from TeX in Practice


text1

macros/text1/

TeX format from the University of Washington


textcomp

fonts/psfonts/ts1/

Supports the Text Companion fonts which provide many text symbols (such as baht, bullet, copyright, musicalnote, onequarter, section, and yen) in the TS1 encoding.


textfit

macros/latex/contrib/supported/textfit/

Package to support fitting of text to a given width of height by scaling the font


textmerg

macros/latex/contrib/supported/textmerg/

Merge text in TeX and LaTeX. Useful, for example, in mail merge.


theorem

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Enhancements to the theorem environments, giving more choice in theorem layout.


thesis

macros/latex/contrib/supported/thesis/

A class for producing a thesis based on the report class for a more European and more flexible look. Supports options like noindent, noitemization, headline, nocenter, crosshair, and chapterbib.


time

macros/latex/contrib/supported/piff/

Defines a macro \now to print the current time.


times

Use Postscript Times Roman as the default font.


titleref

macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/titleref.sty

Cross-reference titles of sections and floats with caprions just like \ref and \pageref.


titles

macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/

Various macros for handling the titles of books, journals, etc. that handle following spacing and punctuation intelligently. Especially useful for bibliographic databases.


tmview

dviware/tmview

SVGA-lib based DVI-previewer. Fast, offers xdvi-like anti-aliasing, text-string searching, arbitrary-zooming, bookmarks, some of the hypertex features.


tools

macros/latex/tools/

Standard LaTeX2e tools, for extended tabular, verbatim and theorem support


tracking

macros/latex/contrib/other/tracking

Automatically adjust spaces between symbols in words or phrases to fit them into a specified length. Any chain of symbols (including spaces) in the current font may be treated.


treesvr

macros/latex/contrib/supported/treesvr/

Tree macros


treetex

macros/latex209/contrib/trees/tree_tex/

Allows the automatic layout of n-ary trees with arbitrary node sizes in LaTeX, using an external C program to do much of the hard work.


tubtoc

Tables of contents from TUGboat


tugboat

digests/tugboat/

Macros for articles to be submitted to TUGboat


typearea

macros/latex209/contrib/script/

Set page margins. See also geometry, and vmargin.


typehtml

macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/

Typeset HTML (i.e., World Wide Web documents) directly from LaTeX. Can handle almost all of HTML2, and most of the math fragment of the draft HTML3.


U

ucthesis

macros/latex/contrib/supported/ucthesis/

A modified version of the standard LaTeX REPORT style that is accepted for use with University of California PhD dissertations and Masters theses.


ulem

macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/

Package for underlining. Be advised that underlining is considered bad style in typesetting. See also underlin.


ulsy

macros/latex/contrib/supported/ulsy/

Extra mathematical characters


umlaute

macros/latex/contrib/supported/umlaute/

An interface to inputenc for using alternate input encodings


underlin

macros/generic/

Package for underlining. Be advised that underlining is considered bad style in typesetting. See also ulem which is a specific package for LaTeX.


uniqleaf

support/uniqleaf

Check filesystem tree (or union of several trees) for unique leaf names; useful for spotting ambiguities that path-searching programs could trip over. For each non-unique leaf name found, it prints out ``ls'' and ``md5'' information for each candidate file.


url

macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/

A form of \verb that allows linebreaks at certain characters or combinations of characters, accepts reconfiguration, and can usually be used in the argument to another command. It is intended for email addresses, hypertext links, directories/paths, etc., which normally have no spaces.


urw

fonts/psfonts/urw/

Font metrics, and macro support in LaTeX2e, for free URW fonts


utthesis

macros/latex/contrib/supported/utthesis/

Produces a thesis that meets the requirements of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin :-)


uwthesis

macros/latex/contrib/supported/uwthesis/

University of Washington thesis


V

varioref

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Intelligent page references.


vdm

macros/latex/contrib/other/vdm/

Typesetting VDM schemas


vector

macros/latex/contrib/supported/vector/

Macros for more convenient representation of vectors in LaTeX2e, both symbolically and as implicit or explicit rows/columns of elements


verbatim

macros/latex/packages/tools/

A better verbatim environment. See also alltt, moreverb, and vrb.


vertex

macros/plain/contrib/vertex/

Styles for economics working papers and journals


vfinst

fonts/utilities/vfinst

A set of scripts and Perl files which aim to make the installation of families of PostScript fonts and creation of necessary virtual fonts outline fonts `virtually' automatic. Uses fontinst.


vita

macros/latex/contrib/other/vita/

This class provides necessary macros to prepare your Curriculum Vitae or Resume.


vmargin

macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/

Provides a macro to set various margins as well as dimensions for header/footer and page dimensions. Most common paper sizes and two sided printing are supported. See also geometry, and typearea.


vncmr

fonts/vietnamese/vncmr

A Vietnamese extension of the cmr fonts. Contains METAFONT source files, .tfm files, and various LaTeX2e and plain TeX files for VISCII encoding.


vrb

macros/generic/vrb/

Verbatim macros via plain TeX See also alltt, moreverb, and verbatim.


vrsion

macros/latex/contrib/other/vrsion/

Defines a command which produces a version number in the .dvi-file when LaTeX is run.


W

wasy

fonts/wasy/

The wasy fonts (Waldis symbol fonts)


wasysym

macros/latex/contrib/supported/wasysym/

Makes some additional characters available that come from the wasy fonts (Waldis symbol fonts). These fonts are not automatically included in NFSS2/LaTeX2e since they take up important space and aren't necessary if one makes use of the packages amsfonts or amssymb. Symbols include: join, box, diamond, leadsto, sqsubset, lhd, rhd, apprle, ocircle, invneg, logof, varint, male, female, phone, clock, lightning, pointer, sun, bell, permil, smiley, various electrical symbols, shapes, music notes, circles, signs, astronomy, etc.


williams

macros/latex/contrib/other/williams/

Miscellaneous macros by Peter Williams.


winedit

support/winedt/

A state-of-the-art text editor and Shell for Windows95 (and Windows NT or Windows 3.x). Can edit huge, multiple, text files in the usual Windows95 way (c.f. Word). It uses a Multiple Documents Interface (MDI) and follows or extends Windows' Standards in every respect. WinEdit supports (LaTeX) Syntax Highlighting and Input/Output ASCII Code Translation Tables and has comprehensive context-sensitive Help. The Shell can be customised to run with different utilities and is particularly suitable for writing TeX documents. By defining utilities (such as TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX, DVI Driver, Spell Checker), most of the common tasks while writing a TeX document or a project are reduced to clicking a Tool Bar Button or selecting a Menu Command.


wintex

systems/win32/wtex95

A flexible, 32-bit Windows-TeX-editor with Highlight-O-Matic syntax-highlighting.


wp2latex

support/wp2latex-5_1/

Convert WordPerfect 5.0 or 5.1 files into LaTeX.


wrapfig

macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/

Produces figures which text can flow around. Does not work in combination with list environments, but can be used in a parbox or minipage, and in twocolumn format.


wsuipa

fonts/wsuipa/

Washington State University IPA phonetic fonts


X

xarticle

macros/latex209/contrib/xarticle/

A class that allows use of 7pt, 8pt and 9pt style options. Not fully compatible with article class though.


xcomment

macros/latex/contrib/other/seminar/src/

Allows selected environments to be included/excluded.


xdvi

dviware/xdvi

A dvi previewer for the X Window System.


xdvik

dviware/xdvik

A variant of xdvi. This version has better code for recursive searching for font files in subdirectories, but the PostScript handling code is older.


xr

macros/latex/packages/tools/

References to other LaTeX documents.


xspace

macros/latex/packages/tools/

Define commands that don't eat spaces.


xymtex

macros/latex209/contrib/xymtex/

Typesetting chemical structures.


xypic

macros/generic/diagrams/xypic/

Sophisticated macros and fonts, originally designed for commutative diagrams, but with general applicability.


Y

yhmath

macros/latex/contrib/supported/yhmath/

Extended maths fonts for LaTeX.


yinit

fonts/gothic/yinit/

A special font (yinit) is defined to be used for initial dropped capitals.


youngtab

macros/latex/contrib/supported/youngtab

A package for typesetting Young-Tableaux mathematical symbols for the representations of groups, providing two macros, \yng(#1) and \young(#1) to generate the whole Young-Tableaux.


yplan96

macros/latex/contrib/other/yplan96

Print a vertical-type daily planner (i.e., months along the top, days downwards), with each 6-month period fitting onto a single A4 (or US letter) sheet.


Z

zed-csp

macros/latex/contrib/other/zed-csp/

Typesetting Z and CSP format specifications



Other Sources

This current catalogue has evolved over quite some time. It attempts to fill a gap that I often come across in finding things on CTAN. The aim is to build a database of all available tools on CTAN. Contributions are sought and I will continue to maintain the source database (as a BibTeX document). It will continue to be freely available, both as source and as HTML. I am also working an a BibTeX style to produce a properly printed version of the catalogue.

Particular thanks to those who have contributed entries and ideas. Piet van Oostrum supplied quite a few one line descriptions. Sebastian Rahtz added many more entries particularly to act as an index for the TUG TeX Live CD.

This catalogue is provided for reference only. My employer, CSIRO, does not endorse or in any way recommend the products and organisations listed and expressly excludes liability for any damage, loss or injury that a person may suffer as a result of any dealing with any product or organisation listed.


This compilation Copyright © 1996 Graham J. Williams. Permission is granted to redistribute this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as long as this copyright message remains with the document. I would also be grateful if you would let me know what you intend to use it for.