The TeX Catalogue Online, Alphabetically Indexed CTAN Edition

### by Graham Williams

##### Alphabetically Indexed CTAN Edition

### Section B

babel |
Multilingual support for LaTeX. Latest recorded version is 3.6. (12 Jan 1997)
backgammon |
Style for typesetting backgammon boards. (12 Apr 1997)
bakoma |
A TeX package intended for preparing Electronic Publications. The system works under MS-Windows 3.1/9X/NT (with ATM installed). The system includes a complete extendable GUI (Text editor, DVI Viewer, Help system), an updated version of the BaKoMa Fonts Collection, the TeX processor with friends (BibTeX, MakeIndex, MetaPost, DVIPS, DVICopy), a standard compliant TDS, and an installation program. The system supports the use of scalable fonts (PostScript Type 1 and Type 3 font formats) and the importing of PostScript graphics into documents. The system supports generation of PDF and printing on any printer supported by a driver under MS Windows. The system efficiently supports multiple TEXMF trees. Latest recorded version is 2.0. See also miktex. (22 Jan 1999)
bakoma-fonts |
Computer Modern and AMS fonts in PostScript Type1 form. (13 Dec 1996)
bar |
Provides the barenv environment for bar charts.
barcode2 |
No description available. (22 Feb 1999)
barcodes |
Fonts for making barcodes. See also code128, and ean. (7 Jun 1996)
barr |
Diagram macros by Michael Barr. (16 May 1996)
bayer |
An implementation of the universal font by Herbert Bayer of the bauhaus school for MetaFont. It is supported in LaTeX with a package and font definition file. (10 Feb 1998)
bbding |
An NFSS-interface to the symbol font bbding containing many of the Zapf dingbats fonts. (13 May 1997)
bbm |
Blackboard variant fonts for Computer Modern, with LaTeX support. See also blackboard, doublestroke, and dblfont. (16 May 1996)
beebe |
Nelson Beebe's collection of TeX-related bibliographies, and BibTeX style files. (16 May 1996)
belleek |
Free replacement for basic MathTime fonts (22 Feb 1999)
beton |
Typeset a LaTeX2e document with the Concrete fonts designed by Don Knuth and used in his book ``Concrete Mathematics''. See also euler. (28 May 1996)
bez123 |
A package providing additional facilities for drawing linear, cubic, and rational quadratic Bezier curves. The multiply package provides a command for multiplication of a length without numerical overflow. (21 Oct 1998)
bezos |
No description available. (22 Feb 1999)
bibarts |
A package to assist in making bibliographical lists common in the arts. (19 Apr 1998)
bibindex |
A stand-alone tool for indexing BibTeX documents to be searched using the corresponding biblook tool. (12 Jan 1997)
biblio |
An extensive collection of BibTeX bibliographies on many topics (linux, java, sas, s-plus, amongst many others) and for many journals (lecture notes in computer science acm, byte, computer, and much, much, more.). Each includes a LaTeX wrapper file to typeset the bibliography. Latest recorded version is 2.07. (4 Oct 1996)
biblios |
A Windows95 tool that uses the CGI (common gateway interface) protocol so that BibTeX files can be managed remotely using an HTTP-server on the server side and a Web-browser such as Netscape on the client side. (16 Aug 1996)
biblist |
BibTeX styles by Joachim Schrod. (16 May 1996)
biblook |
A stand-alone tool for searching BibTeX documents which have been indexed by bibindex. Latest recorded version is 2.8. (12 Jan 1997)
bibsort |
Sort a bibliography. Latest recorded version is 0.11. (12 Nov 1996)
bibtex8bit |
A fully 8-bit adaptation of BibTeX 0.99. (19 Aug 1996)
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. Latest recorded version is 2.41. (24 Feb 1998)
bibunits |
A style to generate separate bibliographies for different units (parts) of the text (chapters, sections or bibunit-environments). The style will separate the citations of each unit of text into a separate file to be processed by BibTeX. The global bibliography section produced by LaTeX can also appear in the document and citations can be placed in both at the same time. Latest recorded version is dated 1991/09/07. (29 May 1997)
bibweb |
Bibweb is a utility for automatically retrieving mathematical bibliographical information, in BibTeX format, from the American Mathematical Society's MathSciNet database. More precisely, it acts as a front-end to BibTeX; it converts any citations that BibTeX can't find into queries to the MathSciNet database, it carries out those queries, and returns the answers in BibTeX format. Included in the package are: the perl script bibweb, documentation (in various formats), and a test file. (28 Nov 1997)
bidstobibtex |
A tool to take input from a BIDS email message (generated using one of the downloading formats) to BibTeX. (21 Oct 1996)
bitstrea |
Font metrics, and macro support in LaTeX2e, for the free Bitstream fonts. (16 May 1996)
blackboard |
A demonstration of the various blackboard bold typefaces available for TeX (bbm, bbold, doublestroke, and msbm), including a PostScript file to preview them. (9 Jul 1998)
blue |
Kees van der Laan's BLUe format, a concise but expressive document preparation system modelled on Knuth's manmac. (16 May 1996)
bluesky |
Computer Modern family in Type1 format (22 Feb 1999)
bm |
This is a package for accessing bold symbols in math mode. (Similar to the AMS \boldsymbol command, but taking more care over spacing, delimiters etc.). Latest recorded version is 1.0a. (13 May 1997)
booktabs |
Nicer layout of tables. (16 May 1996)
borceux |
Diagram macros by Francois Borceux. (16 May 1996)
bosisio |
A collection of packages including: dblfont; graphfig; mathcmd; mathenv; quotes; sobolev. (1 May 1998)
boxedminipage |
A package for producing boxed minipages. (19 Apr 1998)
breqn |
No description available. (22 Feb 1999)
bridge |
Macros for typesetting bridge diagrams. (12 Apr 1997)
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. See also akletter, dinbrief, envlab, and formlett. (30 May 1996)
brushscr |
BrushScript fonts including pbsi, a Type-1 PostScript font containing BrushScript Italic characters. (24 Jun 1998)
btparse |
A fully functional Perl and C library interface to BibTeX files. Features include: robust, efficient lexical scanning and parsing of BibTeX files; excellent error detection, reporting, and recovery in the parser; full processing of BibTeX strings (macros expanded, whitespace collapsed, strings concatenated); handles all common entry types (@comment, @preamble, @string, and everything else) with ease, and gives you full access to the contents of all entry types; support for processing author names identically to BibTeX; preliminary support for imposing/enforcing a particular database structure. Latest recorded version is 0.21. (20 Feb 1998)