The TeX Catalogue Online, Alphabetically Indexed CTAN Edition

### by Graham Williams

##### Alphabetically Indexed CTAN Edition

### Section L

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 |
A merge of the best in AMS-TeX and LaTeX. (16 May 1996)
lastpage |
Reference the number of pages in your LaTeX document (as in a page footer that says: Page N of M).
lated |
A graphical editor for drawings in the LaTeX ``picture'' environment. It runs under MSDOS or in a Windows DOS box. The distribution includes full sources, including LaTeX source for its documentation. Latest recorded version is 1.1. (11 Feb 1998)
latex |
LaTeX is a (and probably the most) popular macro package for TeX, providing many basic document formating commands extended by many of the packages included in this current list. Latest recorded version is June 98. See also latex2e, and latex209. (2 Jul 1998)
latex209 |
The pre-1993 LaTeX, now no longer supported. See also latex2e, and latex. (4 Jul 1996)
latex2e |
Documentation on LaTeX2e in OS/2 hypertext format and html. See also latex, and latex209. (4 Jul 1996)
latex2html |
A Perl program that translates LaTeX into HTML (HyperText Markup Language) creating separate HTML files corresponding to each unit (e.g., section) of the document. See also ltoh, hyperlatex, tth, and techexplorer. (8 Jul 1996)
latex2man |
A tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a man-page format, HTML, or TexInfo. Latest recorded version is 1.6. (9 Sep 1998)
latex2rtf |
Translates LaTeX text into RTF (Rich Text Format as used by Microsoft Word) See also tex2rtf. (17 Nov 1998)
latexcad |
A CAD drawing package. (20 Mar 1998)
latexfonts |
No description available. (22 Feb 1999)
latexmk |
An excellent utility for Unix which deals with the task of running LaTeX the appropriate number of times to ensure cross-references, etc., are completely defined. Also supports printing and viewing. Latest recorded version is 2.0. See also latexn, and prv. (12 Jan 1997)
latexn |
A csh script to run LaTeX as many times as needed (and hopefully no more) on a given file to resolve cross references, and to ensure that the table of contents and index (if any) are up-to-date. See also latexmk. (27 Nov 1997)
latin2jk |
A definition file for the inputenc package, where all characters from IS=-8859-2 (Latin-2) are loaded as text characters. This allows verbatim setting of Latin-2 encoded files. (7 Oct 1997)
layout |
Produces an overview of the layout of the current document. Latest recorded version is 1.2b. See also layouts. (13 Aug 1998)
layouts |
Display various elements of a document's layout. This includes: text positioning on a page; disposition of floats; layout of paragraphs, lists, footnotes, table of contents, and sectional headings; font boxes. Facilities are provided for a document designer to experiment with the layout parameters. Latest recorded version is 2.3. See also layout, and isostds. (31 Jan 1999)
leaflet |
A document class to create small hand-outs that fit on a single sheet of paper which is then folded twice, with a script to rearrange pages so that they print correctly (on a PostScript printer) on a single sheet. (30 Sep 1998)
leftidx |
This package enables left subscripts and superscripts in math mode. These subscripts and superscripts are automatically raised for better fitting to the symbol they belong to. (4 Feb 1998)
letter |
The standard LaTeX2e letter document class. (6 Nov 1998)
lettrine |
A package to typeset dropped capitals in various ways, typically those described in the French typographic books. Latest recorded version is 0.9. (25 Mar 1998)
levy |
Macros for using Silvio Levy's Greek fonts. (16 May 1996)
lexikon |
Implements commands to generate a two language dictionary. (1 Apr 1998)
lgreek |
Macros for using Silvio Levy's Greek fonts. (16 May 1996)
lgrind |
Prepares various programming language source code (e.g., C, C plus plus, 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. Latest recorded version is 3.51. See also lgrind-win32. (5 Aug 1998)
lgrind-win32 |
A version of lgrind for Win32 systems. (24 Mar 1998)
lh |
The lh fonts for the `T2'/X2 encodings (for cyrillic languages). (2 Oct 1998)
lhcyr |
A collection of three LeTeX 2e styles intended for typesetting Russian and bilingual English-Russian documents: lhcyralt, lhcyrkoi, and lhcyrwin. (21 Jan 1999)
lilypond |
GNU LilyPond is a program which converts music definition files into visual or auditive output. It LilyPond can typeset formatted sheet music to a TeX file and (mechanical) performances to MIDI files. Latest recorded version is 1.0.17. (21 Oct 1998)
lineno |
Adds line numbers to selected paragraphs with reference possible through the LaTeX \ref and \pageref cross reference mechanism. Latest recorded version is 2.04. See also numline. (20 Jan 1999)
linguex |
A package to facilitate the formatting of linguist examples, automatically taking care of example numbering, indentations, indexed brackets, and the ``*'' in grammaticality judgments. (1 Jun 1998)
lintex |
A C program that removes auxilliary TeX and LaTeX files that are usually not needed after a run (log, aux, dvi, files), and only if their modification time is more recent than the source. Latest recorded version is 1.04. (16 Jun 1998)
lips |
Text ellipses that are better for text ellipses than \dots, by the standard of the Chicago Manual of Style. Latest recorded version is 1.2. (21 Oct 1996)
listings |
A package for typesetting listings using LaTeX2e. The source code is read directly by TeX. Keywords, comments and strings can be typeset using different styles, e.g., default is bold for keywords, italic for comments and no special style for strings. Latest recorded version is 0.19. (11 Nov 1998)
lkort |
No description available. (22 Feb 1999)
llncs |
Document style for submissions to Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. (4 Oct 1996)
localloc |
Macros for localizing TeX register allocations. (16 May 1996)
logic |
A MetaFont font for drawing logic diagrams. (3 May 1997)
logo-ps |
Type-1 PostScript fonts for the logo font. (25 Jul 1998)
lollipop |
A new generation format. (16 May 1996)
longtable |
Support for tables longer than a page. Generally easier to use and more flexible than supertabular. See also supertabular. (21 Jun 1996)
losymbol |
Defines a lost of symbols macro.
lscape |
Place selected parts of a document in landscape. Modifies the margins and rotates the page contents but not the page number. Useful, for example, with large multipage tables, and is compatible with longtable and supertabular. Latest recorded version is 3.0, 1994/10/05. See also rotating. (7 Nov 1996)
lshort-english |
A (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. See also gentl-gr, lshort-finnish, lshort-french, lshort-german, lshort-mongolian, lshort-russian, and lshort-spanish. (21 Jan 1999)
lshort-finnish |
Finnish version A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e with an emphasis on Finnish typesetting rules. (21 Jan 1999)
lshort-french |
French version of A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. (5 Feb 1998)
lshort-german |
Finnish version A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. (30 Jan 1999)
lshort-mongolian |
Mongolian version of A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. (30 Jan 1999)
lshort-polish |
Introduction to LaTeX in Polish. This is the Polish translation of A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. (25 Feb 1999)
lshort-russian |
Russian version of A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. (13 Oct 1998)
lshort-spanish |
Spanish version A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. (21 Jan 1999)
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).
ltoh |
A converter from LaTeX to HTML. Latest recorded version is 98a. See also latex2html, tth, ltx2x, and techexplorer. (8 Apr 1998)
ltx2rtf |
A conversion program from LaTeX to Rich Text Format. (28 Dec 1998)
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, HTML, and RTF tags, etc. See also latex2html, tth, ltoh, and techexplorer. (26 Jan 1997)
ltxbase |
The core LaTeX. (16 May 1996)
ltxdoc |
Class for documented LaTeX2e classes.
ltxinput |
An MSDOS utility which recursively searches a file for input (and include) statements, writing a list of files which are input to stdout and to a batch file which sets an environmental variable LTXINPUT to point to this filelist. The C source, MSDOS binary, documentation and test files are included in the distribution. (26 Nov 1996)
ltxmisc |
Miscellaneous LaTeX styles. (16 May 1996)
ltxsrc |
The core source files for LaTeX2e. (16 May 1996)
lucida |
No description available. (22 Feb 1999)
lucold |
A package to switch the rendering of all the digits to the so-called ``old-style'' numbers, when using Lucida fonts. The switch affects all digits in text mode, or all digits in text and math mode. It works both for normal weight and boldface text and math; since the boldface old-style digits are in the ``Lucida Expert'' font set, you need it for the boldface digits. Includes a set of AWK programs used to automatically build fd, tfm and vf files from the existing Lucida PSNFSS distribution, and that may easily changed for the generation of different virtual files for whatever font. (4 Feb 1998)
lw35nfsx |
LaTeX psnfss support for the 35 printer resident PostScript fonts using ly1 text font encoding, employing the Berry names. This is similar to the existing lw35nfss.zip support using T1/TS1, but much simpler (lw35nfsx.zip is about 150k bytes while lw35nfss.zip is about 800 kbytes). It includes needed additions to dvips's psfonts.map, TFM metric files for TeX, FD font definition files, and STY files for LaTeX. (28 Jul 1998)
ly1 |
Support for LY1 LaTeX encoding, i.e. the YandY texnansi (TeX 'n ANSI) encoding. (12 Apr 1997)