The TeX Catalogue Online, Alphabetically Indexed CTAN Edition

### by Graham Williams

##### Alphabetically Indexed CTAN Edition

### Section P

pagedraw |
A free vector-graphics program capable of creating EPS files suitable for inclusion in TeX documents.
pageno |
A LaTeX package that can re-define the plain page style under the control of options, so you can have page numbers: at the top or bottom of the page; in the inside corner, outside corner, or in the middle. It was inspired by Axel Sommerfeldt's rplain package. (23 Sep 1998)
pandey |
Support for the Bengali language. See also arosgn. (30 Sep 1998)
pandora |
The Pandora font family. (16 May 1996)
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. Latest recorded version is 1g. (20 May 1996)
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. (14 Jun 1996)
paralist |
Provides enumerate and itemize environments that can be used within paragraphs and format the items either as running text or as separate paragraphs with a preceding number or symbol. (21 Jan 1999)
parallel |
Provides a parallel environment which allows two columns of text to be typeset. Useful for typesetting two languages side-by-side.
patch |
Macros for package management. (3 May 1997)
path |
A LaTeX package to break long strings at convenient places. The strings might be directory paths, email addresses, URLs, etc. (25 Jun 1996)
pawpict |
A package for easy inclusion of graphics made by PAW (Physics Analysis Workstation). You need to have PAW installed on your system to benefit from this package. (10 Feb 1998)
pb-diagram |
A diagram package using LAMSTeX or Xy-pic fonts. Latest recorded version is 5.0. (30 Nov 1998)
pcfonts |
Support for Hebrew. (21 Oct 1996)
pdcmac |
Damian Cugley's macro tools. (16 May 1996)
pdftex |
An extension of TeX which directly generates PDF documents instead of DVI. This is under development and regarded as beta software. Latest recorded version is 0.1. (13 Aug 1998)
pdftex-djgpp |
A PDFTeX executable compiled with DJGPP v.2.01, to be used with the DJGPP v.2.01 port of web2c for DOS and Windows 95. (23 Feb 1998)
permute |
A package for symmetric groups, allowing you to input, output, and calculate with them. (28 Dec 1998)
pf2afm |
A PostScript program for geberating missing AFM files from PFB/PFA and (optionally) PFM font files. Latest recorded version is 1.0. (18 Jun 1998)
phonetic |
MetaFont Phonetic fonts, based on Computer Modern. (16 May 1996)
phppcf |
A BibTeX style derived from apalike with author names in all caps. (14 Jun 1996)
physe |
PHYSE format. (12 Apr 1997)
phyzzx |
A TeX format for physicists. (16 May 1996)
picinpar |
Insert pictures into paragraphs. (NOTE: Piet van Oostrum does not recommend this package. Picins is recommended instead.)
picins |
Insert pictures into paragraphs.
pictex |
Picture drawing macros for LaTeX. See also m-pictex, qfig, and epic. (24 Feb 1998)
piff |
Macro tools by Mike Piff. (16 May 1996)
piq |
MetaFont package for the Klingon language with okuda orthography. (17 Nov 1996)
pkfind |
The TDS standard specifies that pk and gf files contain \special strings to identify the contents of pk and gf files. Pkfind is a variant of the GNU find utility modified to understand those specials, and to act on them in some cases. For example, it can be used to delete all pk files created by gsftopk from a subdirectory tree. Latest recorded version is 1.0. (3 Mar 1998)
pl |
Literate Programming for Prolog with LaTeX. (25 Feb 1998,)
pl-mf |
Polish extension of Computer Modern fonts in MF sources. See also plpsfont. (08 Feb 1998)
pl-qx |
LaTeX support for extra Polish fonts (Antyktor etc.). (22 Feb 1999)
plain |
The plain.sty package defines an environment which allows plain TeX commands in LaTeX.
plainmisc |
Miscellaneous useful macros for plain TeX. (16 May 1996)
plaintex |
Basic Plain TeX macros. (16 May 1996)
plari |
A document class for typesetting stageplay scripts. (6 Nov 1998)
platex |
Tools to typeset documents in Polish using LaTeX2e using Polish fonts (so-called PL fonts), EC fonts, and CM fonts. Latest recorded version is v1.01. (18 Jun 1998)
plcalendar |
Plain macros for making nice calendars. See also calendar, kalendar, and termcal. (16 May 1996)
plfonts |
Polish fonts. (22 Feb 1999)
plgraph |
LaTeX graphics package with wrapper to allow it to be used with generic plain TeX. (16 May 1996)
plpatch |
No description available.
plpsfont |
Polish extension of Computer Modern fonts, PL fonts in PostScript T1 format. Use the same tfm files as for pk fonts generated by MetaFont. Latest recorded version is 1.02. See also pl-mf. (08 Feb 1998)
pmcstex |
A macro package that implements many (em)TeX related features for the OS/2 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. (27 Nov 1997)
pmgraph |
A set of extensions to LaTeX picture environment, including a wider range of vectors, and a lot more box frame styles. (13 May 1997)
poligraf |
Page preparation for prepress, color separation, crop-marks, color and gray scale bars, booklet preparation, etc. (08 Feb 1998)
polish |
General TeX and LaTeX documentation in Polish. (22 Feb 1999)
polyglot |
A package for LaTeX2e multilingual support. Latest recorded version is 1.1. (12 Sep 1997)
ppchtex |
A package that can be used to typeset chemical formulas. The package is a separate module of the context macro package for TeX (context is a full featured, parameter driven macro package, which fully supports advanced interactive documents). (15 Jan 1997)
prelim2e |
Allows the marking of preliminary versions of a document. Latest recorded version is 1.21. (10 Aug 1998)
prettyref |
Additional functionality for the LaTeX2e label--reference mechanism allowing the ``preformat'' of all types of labels. This package is compatible with hyperref and other packages. Latest recorded version is 3.0. (29 Jul 1998)
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. (16 May 1996)
program |
Typesetting programs and algorithms. (16 May 1996)
proofs |
Macros for building proof trees. (12 Apr 1997)
prv |
A Perl script for compiling, previewing, and printing Latex documents. Derived from LatexMk version 2.0. Latest recorded version is 0.5. (11 Dec 1998)
ps_conv |
A PostScript program for converting one-page PostScript files into and EPS (encapsulated PostScript) files acceptable by CorelDRAW!(R), Adobe Illustrator(TM) and Fontographer(R). (17 Nov 1996)
ps_view |
A PostScript preamble providing an interactive environement for fast previewing of PostScript documents with GhostScript, enabling scaling, rotation, grids, printing specified pages, on-line help, etc. Latest recorded version is 2.01. (25 Jun 1998)
psboxit |
Enables one to put a PostScript drawing behind a TeX box. The drawing is parameterised by the position and the size of the TeX box.
psfig |
No description available. (22 Feb 1999)
psfixbb |
Computes the BoundingBox of a PostScript file settin the BoundingBox comment in the file accordingly, using GhostScript, pnmfile and pnmcrop. (23 Jun 1998)
psfont |
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. (1 Jul 1996)
psfonts |
PostScript fonts for use with TeX and LaTeX. (13 May 1997)
psfrag |
Allows LaTeX constructions (equations, picture environments, etc.) to be precisely superimposed over Encapsulated PostScript figures, using your own favorite drawing tool to create an EPS figure and placing simple text ``tags'' where each replacement is to be placed, with PSfrag automatically removing these tags from the figure and replacing them with a user specified LaTeX construction, properly aligned, scaled, and/or rotated. Latest recorded version is 3.04. (24 Jun 1998)
psizzl |
A TeX format from SLAC. (16 May 1996)
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 and the 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 (i.e. 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. (13 May 1997)
psmerge |
Concatenate PostScript files as long as they have been generated by the same program (e.g., generated by dvips). (1 Nov 1996)
psnfss |
Font definition files, macros and font metrics for common PostScript fonts. (24 Apr 1997)
psnfssx |
Extra styles and encodings for PS fonts, including YandY encoding support. (12 Apr 1997)
pspicture |
Replacement for core LaTeX picture macros to use PostScript \special commands. (16 May 1996)
pstotext |
A free (but copyright) Unix program that extracts ASCII text from PostScript and PDF (Acrobat) files. pstotext uses GhostScript, but does a more careful job with kerned characters and nonstandard font encodings than Ghostscript's ps2ascii utility. (31 Oct 1996)
pstricks |
An extensive collection of PostScript macros that is compatible with most TeX macro packages, including Plain TeX, LaTeX, AMS-TeX, 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. See also color, colortab, fancybox, and shading. (30 May 1996)
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 |
Donald Knuth's punk font (16 May 1996)