The TeX Catalogue Online, Topic Index CTAN Edition

### Graham Williams
CSIRO Australia

##### Topic Index by Juergen Fenn

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> Note: Every systematical order is arbitrary in some way or another. This is why entries may appear in more than one place. The following order generally keeps to that of the `LaTeX Companion'.

## Contents

- References and Manuals

- Applications
  - (La)TeX Distributions
    - Unices
    - DOS
    - OS/2
    - Windows
    - Macintosh
    - Misc
  - ConTeXt and Omega
  - Editors
  - Drivers, Viewers, and Plugins

- Alternative Document Classes

- Document Structure
  - Abstract
  - Table of Contents
  - Changing the Counting of Chapters
  - Crossreferences
  - Footnotes and Endnotes
  - Appendix
- Formatting
  - Enumerating and Listing Items
  - Verbatim Input and Simulating the Typewriter
- Page Layout
  - Page Margins
  - Page Headings
- Columns and Tables
- Floats

- Fonts
- Including Graphics
- PostScript Support
- Creating PDF Documents
- Converters
  - TeX to HTML
  - HTML to TeX
  - TeX to Word Processor
  - Misc

- Combining Documents

- Creating Indices and Glossaries
- Bibliography

- Multilingual Support
  - The `babel` Package
  - Chinese, Japanese, Korean
  - Dutch
  - French
  - German
  - Greek
  - Italian
  - Tibetan

- `Office' Applications
  - Writing Letters
  - Keeping Lists of Addresses
  - Calendars and Date
  - Writing Applications for a Job
  - Business Cards
  - Envelopes
  - Labels
  - Leaflets
  - Writing Invoices
  - Presentations and Overhead Slides
- Science
  - Mathematics
  - Physics
  - Chemistry
  - Computer Science
  - The Humanities
  - Jurisprudence
- Music
- Recipes
- Documenting Games
- CD and MC Covers

- Developing LaTeX Packages

## References and Manuals

> Note: `~/help` and `~/info` should be completed (several FAQs and guides).

acrotex gentle latex4wp lshort-english lshort-finnish lshort-french lshort-german lshort-italian lshort-japanese lshort-mongolian lshort-polish lshort-portuguese-br lshort-portuguese lshort-russian slovak-lshort lshort-spanish tugboat-toc win95-guide

## Applications

### (La)TeX Distributions:

> Note: texlive provides tetex for Unices (including Mac OS X) and fptex for Windows.

Unices: tetex VTeX/Free web2c

DOS: emtex

OS/2: emtex-os2 emTeX/TDS VTeX/Free

Windows: bakoma-fonts bakoma-games bakoma-malvern bakoma emtexgi fptex miktex-axp miktex web2c-win32

Macintosh:

> Note: `ozTeX` should be added (`~/nonfree/systems/mac/oztex`)

cmactex tetex

Misc: amiweb2c

### ConTeXt and Omega:

context omega omegabase omegafonts

### Editors:

auctex fourtex ntemacs texshell32 winedt winshell

### Drivers, Viewers, and Plugins:

acroread dviwin ghostscript ghostview-mac ps_view windvi xdvi

## Alternative Document Classes

> Note: These class files provide an alternative to the usual LaTeX `article, report,` or `book` classes. There are some alternatives to `letter.cls`, too. These are used to change document layout in general and they usually provide some special features, as well. You should check the class file documentation first to make shure whether you can use options or commands that are part of the respective package before considering the use of one of the packages listed further below.

jura koma-script memoir nrc ntgclass thesis

## Document Structure

### Abstract:

### Table of Contents:

minitoc multitoc shorttoc titletoc tocbibind tocloft tocvsec2 tubtoc

### Changing the Counting of Chapters:

anonchap alphanum koma-script tocvsec2

### Crossreferences:

### Footnotes and Endnotes:

ftnright manyfoot nccfoots savefnmark titlefoot yafoot

### Appendix:

## Formatting

### Enumerating and Listing Items:

ftnright manyfoot nccfoots savefnmark titlefoot yafoot

### Verbatim Input and Simulating the Typewriter:

alltt eplain moreverbmoreverb verbatim vrb

## Page Layout

### Page Margins:

a4 a4wide a5 a5comb geometry typearea vmargin

### Page Headings:

fancyhdr

## Columns and Tables

array Array Maker balance blkarray booktabs caption caption2 ccaption cellular colortab colortbl cuted dcolumn dpfloat easybmat easyeqn easytable eplain Excel-to-LaTeX figcaps fix2col float floatflt fltpage flushend ftcap ftnright gleitobjekte labels LaTable longtable lscape ltablex ltxtable mhequ midfloat multenum multicol multirow multitoc nonfloat nrc parallel photo pstricks refcheck savefnmark shadbox subfigure subfloat supertabular tabls tap threeparttable topcapt warpcol wrapfig xtab yafoot

## Floats

endfloat float floatfig floatflt here subfigure wrapfig

## Fonts

> Note: On font selection also see Postscript support and Creating PDF Documents.

> This section also lists packages that make selecting fonts easier.

bakoma-fonts bakoma-malvern cjk-fonts koma-script omegafonts psfonts pslatex psnfss-source psnfss psnfssx

## PostScript Support

ghostscript ghostview-mac ps2eps ps_conv ps_view psboxit psfig psfixbb psfont psfonts Il sistema PSfrag psfrag psizzl pslatex psmerge psnfss-source psnfss psnfssx pspicture psrip pssplit pst-optics pstoedit pstotext pstricks psutils

## Creating PDF Documents

acrotex ae aeguill hyperref pdfcrop pdfcrypt pdfpages pdfscreen pdfslide pdftex-djgpp pdftex pdftex_oztex pdftricks thumbpdf

## Converters

### TeX to HTML:

latex2html ltoh tex4ht tth-rpm tth-win tth

### HTML to TeX:

hyperlatex

### TeX to Word Processor:

tex2rtf latex2rtf

### Misc:

delimtxt Excel-to-LaTeX psrip pstoedit pstotext xl2latex

## Combining Documents

combine pdfpages

## Creating Indices and Glossaries

acronym appendix gloss glosstex nomencl

## Bibliography

camel eplain germbib jurabib notoccite pybliographer tex2bib tex2ltx tocbibind

## Multilingual Support

### The `babel` Package:

babel

### Chinese, Japanese, Korean

cjk cjk-fonts ttt

### Dutch:

ntgclass

### French:

aeguill lettre

### German:

> Note: `ngerman.sty` provides support for new German spelling. It replaces `german.sty` for those who prefer to keep to the new standards. Both are part of german.

brief dinbrief g-brief german germbib germdoc

### Greek:

> Note: For typesetting ancient Greek use the babel package with the option polutonikogreek. See The Humanities for more references on the Humanities.

cbgreek greek4cbc greek6cbc kdgreek hyphenation-greek lgreek macgreek mtgreek upgreek

### Italian:

C.D.P. Bundle

### Tibetan:

ttt

## `Office' Applications

### Writing Letters:

> Note: The koma-script bundle provides a letter class of its own called `scrlttr2`.

akletter brief C.D.P. Bundle dinbrief envlab formlett g-brief lettre

### Keeping Lists of Addresses:

> Note: The koma-script bundle provides `scraddr` that goes with the `scrlttr2` letter class for using address data in letters.

adrlist delimtxt

### Calendars and Date:

advdate calendar kalendar kalender plcalendar termcal

### Writing Applications for a Job:

currvita CurVe cv esieecv vita

### Business Cards:

bizcard

### Envelopes:

### Labels:

### Leaflets:

### Writing Invoices:

advdate dcolumn invoice

### Presentations and Overhead Slides:

foilhtml foiltex

## Science

### Mathematics:

a0poster array Array Maker dcolumn easyeqn eplain mhequ refcheck tabls tex2ltx upgreek vector

### Physics:

### Chemistry:

ppchtex

### Computer Science:

listings program texlist

### The Humanities:

> Note: For typesetting ancient Greek use the babel package with the option polutonikogreek. See Greek for more references to the Greek language.

babel jurabib

### Jurisprudence:

alphanum jura jurabib

## Including Graphics

caption caption2 <ccaption dpfloat float fltpage floatflt gleitobjekte graphics graphicx MiniPlot nonfloat refcheck rotating shadbox subfigure subfloat topcapt

## Music

abc2mtex bakoma-games musicref musictex musixtex songbook

## Recipes

recipe

## Documenting Games

bakoma-games backgammon cheq cchess chess go

## CD and MC Covers

> `mceinleger.sty` provides covers for music cassettes.

cdcover cdlabeler

## Developing LaTeX Packages

doc docstrip

Last modified on Sunday, February 2, 2003.