The TeX Catalogue Online, Alphabetically Indexed CTAN Edition

### by Graham Williams

##### Alphabetically Indexed CTAN Edition

### Section S

s2latex |
A scribe to LaTeX converter. The patchfile s2latex.patch provides a port to ANSI C and cleans up the Makefile. (7 Jun 1996)
saferef |
Provides a means of expressing `typed' references (as it were) within a document. (4 Feb 1997)
sanskrit |
A font and pre-processor suitable for the production of documents written in Sanskrit. (19 Mar 1997)
sauter |
Extensions to the CM fonts, providing a parameterization scheme to build fonts at true design sizes. (16 May 1996)
sauterfonts |
A package providing font definition files (plus a replacement for the package exscale) to access many of the fonts in Sauter's (Knappen's, Holin's) collection. These fonts are available in all point sizes and look nicer for such ``intermediate'' document sizes as 11pt. The package sbbm is an alternative to access the bbm fonts, a nice collection of blackboard bold symbols. (12 Nov 1998)
scale |
A package to scale a document by sqrt(2) (or by \magstep{2}). This is useful if you are preparing a document on e.g. A5 paper and want to print on A4 paper to achieve a better resolution. (6 Nov 1998)
scalefnt |
\scalefont{2} selects the current font in twice the current size. \scalefont{.75} reduces the current font size by three quarters. (7 Oct 1997)
schedule |
A package intended to automatically format weekly schedules using LaTeX's picture environment. It requires the packages calc and color. Its main feature is the accuracy with which appointments are represented: boxes drawn to represent a particular appointment are accurate to the minute -- i.e., a 31 minute appointment will have a box 1/60th longer than a 30 minute appointment. A number of features are included to allow the user to customize the output. (18 Feb 1998)
script |
Variant report / book styles. (16 May 1996)
section |
Sections? (1 May 1998)
sectsty |
A LaTeX2e package to help change the style of any or all of LaTeX's sectional headers in the article, book, or report classes. Examples include the addition of rules above or below a section title. Latest recorded version is 1.8.7. See also titlesec. (13 Dec 1998)
semantic |
Eases the typesetting of notation of semantics and compilers. Includes T-diagrams, various derivation symbols and inference trees. (13 May 1996)
seminar |
Produce overhead slides (transparencies) with bells and whistles. See also foiltex, and slidenotes. (28 May 1996)
setspace |
Support for double, one-and-a-half, and other line spacings based on pt size. Latest recorded version is 6.4. (27 Nov 1998)
sfg |
Defines some commands to draw signal flow graphs as used by electrical and electronics engineers and graph theorists. (8 Jul 1998)
sfheaders |
Print part/chapter/section headers with the sans-serif font of the current family in the the standard book/report/article document classes. (17 Feb 1998)
shadbox |
A tool to shade the background of any box -- text, figure, table etc. -- using Plain (\La)TeX. (13 May 1997)
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. (16 May 1996)
shading |
A LaTeX Style file for putting text on a shaded background. Requires a PostScript printer and dvi-file converter. Latest recorded version is 1.3. See also color, and pstricks. (24 Sep 1996)
shadow |
Shadows. (21 Oct 1996)
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). (30 May 1996)
shapepar |
A macro to typeset paragraphs in specific shapes. Latest recorded version is 1.01. (3 Jul 1996)
shhyphl |
Serbo-croat hyphenation written in the latin alphabet. (7 Jan 1999)
shortlst |
Provides four environments for typesetting lists of short items which may be layout horizontally as well. (29 Nov 1998)
shorttoc |
A package to create another table of contents with a different depth, useful in large documents where a detailed table of contents should be accompanied by a shorter one, giving only a general overview of the main topics in the document. (22 Jul 1998)
showdim |
A package for LaTeX providing a number of commands for printing the value of a TeX dimension. For example, \tenthpt{\baselineskip} yields the current value of \baselineskip rounded to the nearest tenth of a point. (30 Jul 1998)
showkeys |
Show label, ref, cite and bib keys.
showlabels |
Show label commands in the margin. (23 Feb 1999)
siam |
Styles for SIAM publications. (16 May 1996)
sidecap |
Defines environments called SCfigure and SCtable (analogous to figure and table) to typeset captions sideways. Options include outercaption, innercaption, leftcaption and rightcaption. (6 Nov 1998)
siggraph |
Document class for formatting papers according to the specifications for submission to the annual ACM Siggraph conference. (16 May 1996)
simpsons |
MetaFont source for Simpsons characters. (25 Feb 1998)
sinhala |
Support for thr sinhala language. Latest recorded version is 2.1.1. (31 Oct 1996)
sirlin |
A set of files for typing the Tibetan language in TeX or LaTeX. (16 Aug 1996)
siunits |
A package to typeset physical units following the rules of the International System of Units (SI). Latest recorded version is 0.04. (23 Jan 1999)
slashbox |
Draw an oblique (slash) line in a `tabular' column in LaTeX. (20 Feb 1998)
slashed |
A package to put / through characters, for the Physicist's `Feynman slashed character' notation. (11 Feb 1998)
slemph |
Provides the commands \itswitch, \slswitch, \textitswitch, and \textslswitch.
slidenotes |
A class package for the easy production of a slide collection with annotations. Builds on the report style (or variants). Latest recorded version is 2.27. See also foiltex, and seminar. (16 Dec 1998)
slides |
This is a standard LaTeX2e class for the production of overhead transparencies (foils), replacing the older SliTeX format. Can be used in conjunction with lscape and fancyhdr, for example. (17 Jun 1997)
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. (13 May 1997)
smartmn |
This package activates the minus sign such that it guesses whether to print as a hyphen or as minus sign in text mode (which is one of the most common typografical errors in LaTeX texts). (5 Nov 1996)
sober |
Reduces the amount of white space on the page. Reduces the size of various skips.
sobolev |
Provides commands which are useful when dealing with Hilbert and Sobolev spaces (which occours very often, for example, in numerical analisys). It also provides the \Norm, \SemiNorm, \Scalar and Crochet commands which are also involved in the same context. (1 May 1998)
somedefs |
A programmer's toolkit package for use by package writers supporting the provision of options which switch definitions contained in a package on and off through package options. It thus does not require all of the package to be loaded into memory. Latest recorded version is 0.3. (12 Aug 1998)
songbook |
Package for typesetting song lyrics. Latest recorded version is 3.0. (30 Jun 1998)
sorhyph |
Upper sorbian hyphenations patterns. (12 May 1997)
soul |
Provides hyphenateable spacing out (letterspacing), underlining, striking out, etc., using the TeX hyphenation algorithm to find the proper hyphens automatically. The package also provides a mechanism that can be used to implement similar tasks, that have to treat text syllable by syllable. This is shown in two examples. Latest recorded version is 1.2. (21 Jan 1999)
spanish |
Various TeX related files for typesetting documents written in Spanish, including hyphenation and dictionaries. (21 May 1996)
spanishb |
A Spanish style using babel. Latest recorded version is 1.1. (5 Oct 1998)
sphack |
Change bsphack/esphack so that it is invisible in vertical mode. (28 May 1998)
sprite |
Macros to set bitmaps with TeX. (16 May 1996)
ssqquote |
LaTeX package and font definition file to access the `cmssq' fonts, i.e. Computer Modern Sans Serif Quotation Style. The LaTeX package also defines a chapterquotes environment as an example application. Latest recorded version is 1994/08/21 v1.3. (25 Dec 1996)
startex |
A TeX format designed to help students write short reports and essays. It provides the user with a suitable set of commands for such a task. It is also more robust than plain TeX and LaTeX. (13 May 1997)
stdclsdv |
The stdclsdv package is designed for package writers who need to know what sectioning divsions are provided by the document's class. It also provides a version of \CheckCommand that sets a flag rather than printing a warning. (21 Jan 1999)
stmaryrd |
St Mary Road symbols for functional programming. See also stmaryrd-ps. (25 Apr 1998)
stmaryrd-ps |
Converted Type 1 (PostScript) outlines of the stmaryrd fonts. (25 Jul 1998)
subeqn |
Package for subequation numbering. (12 Apr 1997)
subeqnarray |
Equation array with sub numbering.
subfigure |
Figures divided into subfigures.
supertabular |
A multi-page tables package. Generally longtable is a little easier to use and more flexible. Latest recorded version is 4.1a. (7 Oct 1997)
swift |
Miscellaneous macros by Matt Swift. (16 May 1996)
syngen |
A tool for generating syntax diagrams from BNF\@. The diagrams use the LaTeX picture mode and can be included in any LaTeX2e document. Latest recorded version is 0.4. (19 Nov 1996)
syntonly |
Implements the \syntaxonly declaration used for running a document through LaTeX without actually getting any output.
synttree |
A package to typeset syntactic trees such as those used in Chomsky's Generative grammar, based on a description of the structure of the tree. (12 Aug 1998)