The TeX Catalogue by
Graham Williams
Topic Index by
Jürgen Fenn
Last modified: 21 January 2007
This part of the TeX Catalogue eventually
will list all packages available from the "Comprehensive TeX
Archive Network", or
CTAN, for using
plain TeX,
LaTeX,
ConTeXt, and
Omega by topic. We also try to give some
advice that might help you in getting software and guides not
available on CTAN.
New packages on CTAN and package updates are announced on the
tex-announce list which is also available from
Mail Archive,
as a blog
and as an rss feed from Gmane.org.
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 tries to keep to that of "The
LaTeX Companion", 2nd. ed., by Mittelbach, Goosens,
et. al.
Contrary to the other parts of the TeX Catalogue, the Topic Index is
not (yet) compiled automatically. This is very much a work in
progress, so suggestions are quite welcome. As every complex
document, the Topic Index
is full of errors, so please do not hesitate to report them to the
maintainer.
Contents
References and Manuals
You should refer to "lshort" for
the basic rules for writing correct LaTeX2e.
On the other hand, the most common mistakes in using LaTeX2e and
how to avoid them are listed in Mark Trettin's guide
"l2tabu" available in
German,
English,
French, and
Italian.
Below are some TeX resources online mostly outside CTAN
that deserve to be mentioned, too:
A comprehensive commented reference of the commands available
both in LaTeX and the most popular packages can be found at Michael
Wiedmann's
tex-refs
project.
Herbert Voß has gathered together a rather comprehensive
collection of
Tips & Tricks on (La)TeX.
There also is Norman Walsh's help for Plain TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX,
MakeIndex, and SliTeX.
Tutorials on TeX by TUG India are available online, or as PDF. There also is
Peter Flynn's Beginner's Introduction available both
online and for download.
For news on the development of LaTeX see the
LaTeX3 Project.
The ConTeXt project, too, has a
homepage of its own.
Frequently asked questions:
For practical tips on how to use LaTeX
in general as well as hints for using particular packages refer to the
"Frequently Asked Questions" lists of local TeX User Groups
available on the WWW in
Czech / Slovak,
Dutch,
English,
French (old
and new version),
German,
Greek,
Italian,
Polish,
Spanish,
or on CTAN:
LaTeX Documentation by the LaTeX3 Project:
- cfgguide
- Documentation of LaTeX configuration options
- clsguide
- Documentation of commands (other than font-handling
commands) that are useful when writing a LaTeX class or
package
- cyrguide
- Documentation LaTeX Cyrillic-alphabet features
- fntguide
- Documentation of commands for selecting fonts, as well as
those for defining the data-structures used by the selection
commands
- modguide
- The rules about modifying LaTeX
- usrguide
- Documentation of user commands
Introduction to LaTeX "lshort":
Usage Guide "l2tabu":
Some more guides to (La)TeX:
- beamer-tut-pt
- An introduction to the Beamer class, in Portuguese
- beginlatex
- A comprehensive beginner's guide to LaTeX by Peter Flynn
- catalogue
- The TeX Catalogue of what's
available on CTAN. You are just reading it.
- cursolatex
- A LaTeX tutorial in Portuguese
- french-translations
- French translation project for documentation of LaTeX packages
- gentle
- A Gentle Introduction to TeX
- gentl-gr
- Modern Greek translation of the Gentle Introduction to TeX
- mfwl
- Making Friends with LaTeX is a small presentation
introducing LaTeX
- russian-help
- LaTeX help in Russian
- simplified-latex
- A Simplified Introduction to LaTeX
- texbuch
- A summary in German of D. E. Knuth's `TeXBook' by Fritz Cremer
- texmalli
- A quick Finnish introduction to using LaTeX
- anleitung
- A German introduction by Jens Weissenburger to using True
Type Fonts with LaTeX on a
MikTeX system with
WinEdT
- comp-fonts-faq
- Frequently Asked Questions from the comp.fonts newsgroup
- chroma
- A reference book of LaTeX colors
- cyrguide
- Documentation LaTeX Cyrillic-alphabet features
- egplot
- Encapsulate Gnuplot
sources in LaTeX documents
- epslatex
- Guide to using Encapsulated PostScript graphics in LaTeX
- fepslatex
- French translation of the
epslatex guide
- fonteinf
- A German translation of a guide by Javier Bezos on how to
use fonts in LaTeX
- fntguide
- Documentation of commands for selecting fonts, as well as
those for defining the data-structures used by the selection
commands
- fontinstallationguide
- How to install new fonts
- fontname
- Karl Berry's scheme for naming fonts in TeX
- grafik
- A guide by Marco Duebendorfer on how to produce EPS
graphics files for use with LaTeX on MS Windows platforms
- grfguide
- Guide to using graphics in LaTeX, including documentation on
various packages including color and graphicx
- metafp
- Some Experiences in Running METAFONT and MetaPost
- MetaPost Examples
- Example drawings using metapost
- neufont
- A guide by Bjoern Lorenz on how to install new fonts (in
German)
- sprite
- Macros to typeset simple bitmaps with LaTeX
- tipos
- Description of fonts for TeX in Spanish
- True Type
- Harald Harders' guide on how to use TrueType fonts with
teTeX, and dvips
(La)TeX on Windows:
There are two guides for installing
LaTeX on Windows in German in the first place: Both
Joachim
Schlosser, and
Viktor Witting,
Maik Scherer, Florian Hibler, Johannes Schubert, Mathias Wasserthal,
and Andreas Hirsch provide rather good guides to installing a
complete MiKTeX system on Windows.
- anleitung
- A German introduction by Jens Weissenburger to using True
Type Fonts with LaTeX on a MikTeX system with WinEdT
Developing (La)TeX Packages:
- clsguide
- Documentation of commands (other than font-handling
commands) that are useful when writing a LaTeX class or
package
- dialogl
- Gathers together a bunch of code and examples about how to
write macros to carry on a dialogue with the user
- How to Package Your LaTeX Package
- Tutorial on writing .dtx and .ins files
Publishing with TeX:
- pwt
- An outline of publishing with TeX, serving as a user manual
for the BLUe format
(La)TeX on the Web:
- acrotex
- How to generate PDF with TeX
- webguide
- Brief Guide to LaTeX Tools for Web publishing
(La)TeX vs. Word Processors:
LyX is an advanced alternative to
word processors which is based on LaTeX.
You may also input text using
OpenOffice Writer and later
convert it to LaTeX, or HTML with Henrik Just's
Java-based
Writer2LaTeX.
The TUG offers an overview of
converters
from PC
Textprocessors to LaTeX and
vice
versa.
Some of the converters between LaTeX and
word processor formats can be found on CTAN.
- latex4wp
- A LaTeX guide specifically designed for word processor users
The Symbols available in (La)TeX:
Typesetting Tables:
- tabsatz
- A tutorial by Axel Reichert on typessetting tables with a
some examples (in German)
TUGboat:
- tugboat-toc
- The complete accumulation of TUGboat tables of contents
Typography:
- typografie
- A tutorial on typography by Axel Reichert (in German)
- fancyfolien
- A guide by Hans Friedrich Steffani on how to use the
fancyhdr package (in
German)
Tips for using Floats:
- gleitobjekte
- Tutorial from a DANTE meeting in November 1997 on floats and
their placement, captions, inclusion of graphics, lettering of
graphics, layout of tables and large amounts of numerical data
Components of TeX:
- components
- An introduction to the components and files users of TeX
get in contact with by Joachim Schrod
The TeX Directory Structure documentation:
- tds
- The TeX Directory Structure documentation
Standards for DVI files
- dvistd
- A standard for DVI drivers
Book Reviews:
Donald E. Knuth's Own Documentation of TeX and Metafont:
- knuth
- Knuth's own documentation, including the TeX book and the
MetaFont book
- tex98
- The 1998 cycle of changes to TeX from Knuth
Alternative Document Classes
These class files provide an alternative to the
usual LaTeX article, report,
or book classes. They 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 sure whether you can use options or
commands that are part of the respective class file before considering
the use of one of the packages listed below in alphabetical order.
There are some alternatives to
letter.cls, too, for writing letters and faxes.
There are also classes for typesetting theses and
papers for scientific journals which also might
be of interest to users of TeX in general.
CJW:
- cjw
- A bundle of packages and classes, including letter and
envelope classes, and several packages of a general nature
KOMA-Script:
- hc
- Provides replacements for the default LaTeX classes, based
upon the koma-script
bundle and the seminar
class
- koma-script
- A drop-in replacement for the article/report/book/letter
classes with emphasis on European rules of typography and
paper formats as laid down by Tschichold
- typearea
- Set page margins; part of the
koma-script bundle
Memoir:
- memoir
- Typeset fiction, non-fiction and mathematical books; provides
a variety of predefined page, chapter and caption styles and
easy means of creating new ones
NCC-LaTeX:
- ncclatex
- Another extended general-purpose class whose extensions are
provided in a package which may be used with
the standard classes themselves
- ncctools
- A bundle of packages loaded by the
ncclatex document class
that may also be used independently with other classes
NTG Class:
- ntgclass
- Versions of the standard LaTeX article and report classes,
rewritten to reflect a more European design
Octavo:
- octavo
- A modification of the standard LaTeX book class to typeset
books following classical layout and design principles,
implementing many of the proposals and insights of especially
Jan Tschichold and Hugh Williamson
Refman:
- refman
- A document class for writing technical reference manuals
offering a wide left margin for notes to the reader, like some
of the manuals distributed by Adobe, available for articles
and reports
Document Structure
Document and Section Titles:
- alnumsec
- Alphanumeric section numbering similar to
alphanum, but you may use
the standard LaTeX sectioning commands
- alphanum
- Permits alphanumeric section numbering
- authblk
- A LaTeX2e package to redefine the \author command to work as
normal or to allow a footnote style of author/affiliation
input
- bsheaders
- Implements chapter headers in sans-serif and bounded by
lines \textwidth wide, both above and below the header
itself.
- coverpage
- Automatic cover page creation for scientific papers with
BibTeX data and copyright notice
- fncychap
- Six predefined chapter heading styles
- nccsect
- A re-implementation of sections, captions and tocs
- sectionbox
- create fancy boxed ((sub)sub)sections, primarily for posters
- sectsty
- Control sectional headers
- titlefoot
- Add special material to footer of title page
- titleref
- Cross-reference section (and chapter, etc) titles and
captions just like \ref and \pageref
- titles
- Defining macros that typeset the titles of books, journals,
etc. and handle following spacing and punctuation
intelligently
- titlesec
- Select alternative section titles
- titletoc
- Alternative headings for toc/tof/tol
- titling
- Control over the typesetting of the \maketitle command
- wordlike
- Provides word-like settings for page margins, section
headings, and fonts
Abstract:
- abstract
- Control the typesetting of the abstract environment
Table of Contents:
- autotoc
- Table of contents in Plain TeX
- crossreference
- The package defines cross-references, which may be listed in
a table of cross-references
- minitoc
- Produce a table of contents for each chapter
- multitoc
- Set table of contents in multiple columns
- shorttoc
- Table of contents with different depths
- titletoc
- Alternative headings for toc/tof/tol
- tocbibind
- Add bibliography/index/contents to Table of Contents
- tocloft
- Control table of contents, figures, etc.
- tocvsec2
- Section numbering and table of contents control
Changing the Counting of Chapters:
- alnumsec
- Alphanumeric section numbering similar to
alphanum, but you may use
the standard LaTeX sectioning commands
- anonchap
- Make \chapter s be typeset like sections
- alphanum
- Permits alphanumeric section numbering
- koma-script
- A drop-in replacement for the article/report/book classes
with emphasis on European rules of typography and paper
formats as laid down by Tschichold
- tocvsec2
- Section numbering and table of contents control
Crossreferences:
- checklab
- A patch for the label-checking code
- crossreference
- The package defines cross-references, which may be listed in
a table of cross-references
- cwebhy
- Insert hyperlinks for included files
- dmhgener
- Equation, figure (etc.) numbering and referencing
- drftcite
- Print the tags instead of the numbers for \cite and \bibitem
- labelcas
- Testing whether labels exist in a document
- lastpage
- Reference last page for Page N of M type footers
- prettyref
- Additional functionality for the LaTeX2e label--reference
mechanism, allowing the "preformat" of all types of
labels; compatible with
hyperref and other
packages
- refcheck
- Check references (in figures, table, equations, etc)
- showkeys
- Show label, ref, cite and bib keys
- titleref
- Cross-reference section (and chapter, etc) titles and
captions just like \ref and \pageref
- totpages
- Access last page number and page mark of last page
- ut-backref
- A version of bachref which adds to bibliography entries an
entry saying where this particular reference was cited
- varioref
- Intelligent page references
- xr
- References to other LaTeX documents
Footnotes and Endnotes:
There are some packages for working on
critical editions for those interested in
the Humanities.
- authblk
- A LaTeX2e package to redefine the \author command to work as
normal or to allow a footnote style of author/affiliation
input
- dblfnote
- Sets the footnotes of a single-column document in two
columns; part of the yafoot
package
- endheads
- Provides headers for the pages containing endnotes and more
features for formatting these
- endnotes
- Accumulates footnotes and places them at the end of the document
- fixfoot
- Multiple use of the same footnote text
- fnpara
- Typeset footnotes in run-on paragraphs, instead of one above another
- footbib
- A package to put bibliographic references as footnotes
- footmisc
- Captures as package options much (if not all) of the
functionality of the various other footnote packages
- footnpag
- Allows footnotes on individual pages to be numbered from 1,
rather than being numbered sequentially through the document
- ftn
- LaTeX document-style option to make footnotes available in
any environment, except inside floats
- ftnright
- Footnotes in two column documents
- manyfoot
- Add footnote levels to the standard LaTeX's footnote
mechanism
- marginnote
- Typesetting margin notes inside floats, footnotes, or frames
made with the framed package
- nccfoots
- Implements commands for generating footnotes marked by hands
- pagenote
- Provides tagged notes on a separate page (also known as
"end notes")
- savefnmark
- Save name of the footnote mark for reuse
- titlefoot
- Add special material to footer of title page
- yafoot
- Enclose footnote numbers within a page; control the
position of footnotes; and make footnotes double-columned
Appendix:
Formatting
Enumerating and Listing Items:
- desclist
- Implements a desclist environment, which is similar to the
description environment, but offers more flexibility in
formatting labels
- engrec
- Enumerate with lower- or uppercase Greek letters
- enumerate
- Adds an optional argument to the enumerate environment which
determines the style in which the counter is printed
- enumitem
- Control layout of itemize, enumerate, description
- eqlist
- Provides a list environment which sets a description-like
list but with the difference that the indentation corresponds
to the longest item of the list
- etaremune
- Implements the etaremune environment which is similar to the
enumerate environment, except that labels are decreasing
instead of increasing, similar to the
revnum package
- expdlist
- Provides additional features to the LaTeX description
environment, such as changing the left margin, or
breaking a list for a comment without touching any counters
- mdwtools
- A collection of tools that also includes support for
list handling
- multenum
- Multi-column enumerated lists
- paralist
- Provides enumerate and itemize environments that can be used
within paragraphs to format the items either as running text
or as separate paragraphs with a preceding number or symbol
- revnum
- Provides a reverse-enumerate environment where all items are
numbered in reverse order
Verbatim Input and Quoting:
- alltt
- A verbatim environment other commands, and environments can
appear within
- attrib
- A LaTeX package defining \attrib, which attributes block
elements, for example when citing a reference after a block
quotation
- balancedquotes
- Provides simplified markup for balanced quotes that will
appear as balanced double quotes around a text which embeds a
text surrounded by balanced single quotes
- bbfig
- A Bourne shell script that prints its input surrounded by
its bounding box
- blkcntrl
- Provides pre- and post-hooks in verse, quote, and quotation
environments, and in footnotes as well as a command to set
block quotations one size smaller than the main text
- breakurl
- Line-breakable \url-like
links in hyperref when compiling via
dvips/ ps2pdf
- code
- Uses the verbatim
package to typeset code
- csquotes
- Provides commands for smart, or
"context-sensitive" quoting
- epigraph
- A package for typesetting epigraphs, i.e. the pithy
quotations often found at the start (or end) of a chapter
- eplain
- extended version of the plain format
- examplep
- Provides ophisticated features for typesetting verbatim
source code listings, including the display of the source code
and its compiled LaTeX or METAPOST output side-by-side
- fancyvrb
- Sophisticated handling of verbatim text
- listings
- Typeset programming code within LaTeX using different
styles, e.g., default is bold for keywords, italic for
comments and no special style for strings, including support
for hyperref
- moreverb
- Extended verbatim
- quotchap
- Creating decorative chapter headings with quotations
- quotes
- Translates plain text input into English quotes
"..."
- stdpage
- Standard pages with n lines of at most m characters each
- url
- Verbatim with URL-sensitive line breaks
- verbatim
- The LaTeX verbatim environment
- vrb
- Verbatim macros via plain TeX
Underlining, Letterspacing etc.:
- arcs
- Draw arcs over and under text
- doublespace
- Obsolete package for double space environments superseded by
setspace
- setspace
- Set space between lines
- soul
- Hyphenation for letterspacing, underlining, and more
- subscript
- Provides the textsubscript command (analogous to
textsuperscript in standard LaTeX2e)
- tracking
- Automatically adjust spaces between symbols in words or
phrases to fit them into a specified length
- truncate
- Truncate text to a specified width
- ulem
- Package for underlining
- umoline
- Underlines text allowing line breaking
- underbracket
- Draw brackets to underline (song) text
- underlin
- Package for underlining
Raggedright and Raggedleft Typesetting
- ragged
- Ragged left and ragged right options
- ragged2e
- Defines new commands which set ragged text and are easily
configurable to allow hyphenation.
raggedr is part of this
package.
Formatting Paragraphs
- hanging
- Facilitates the typesetting of hanging paragraphs
Creating Boxes
- boites
- Defines environments that allow page breaks inside framed
boxes and include a few examples (shaded box, box with a wavy
line on its side, etc.)
- boundbox
- Calculate TeX Bounding Box of a page in points
- boxedminipage
- A package that produces a minipage with a frame around it
- boxhandler
- Flexible Captioning and Deferred Box/List Printing
- boxit
- Draw a box around a text, pretty much as in the TeXbook
- boxit-ltx
- An environment for boxing things, including verbatim text
- eqparbox
- Create equal-widthed parboxes
- fancybox
- Provides variants of \fbox for boxing mathematics, floats,
center, flushleft, and flushright, lists, and pages
- shadbox
- Shade the background of any box (text, figure, table, etc.)
Page Layout
Page Margins:
- a4
- Obsolete support for A4 paper sizes
- a4wide
- Increases width of printed area of an a4 page
- a5comb
- Support for a5 paper sizes superceded by the
- anysize
- A simple package to set up document margins (obsolete)
- chngpage
- Change the page layout in the middle of a document
- fullpage
- Sets all 4 margins to be either 1 inch or 1.5 cm, and
specifies the page style
- geometry
- Flexible and complete interface to document dimensions
- hoffset-voffset
- Calculate values for hoffset and voffset for centering a
page
- isostds
- Typeset ISO International Standard documents
- mparhack
- Implements a workaround for the LaTeX bug that marginpars
will sometimes come out at the wrong margin
- rmpage
- Change page layout parameters in LaTeX
- savetrees
- Pack as much text as possible onto each page of a LaTeX
document
- sober
- Reduces the amount of white space on the page by reducing
the size of various skips
- stdpage
- Standard pages with n lines of at most m characters each
- textfit
- Package to support fitting of text to a given width or
height by scaling the font
- typearea
- Set page margins; part of the
koma-script bundle
- vmargin
- Set various dimensions
- wordlike
- Provides word-like settings for page margins, section
headings, and fonts
Page Headings:
scrpage2 is another package for manipulating page headings
and footers that comes with the
koma-script bundle.
- fancyhdr
- Extensive control of page headers and footers in LaTeX2e
- fancyfolien
- A guide by Hans Friedrich Steffani on how to use the
fancyhdr package (in German)
- rplain
- A predecessor to
fancyhdr, redefining the
plain pagestyle
Landscape Format:
- lscape
- Place selected parts of a document in landscape
- twoinone
- Print two pages on a single page (a4paper landscape)
- twoup
- Print two virtual pages on each physical page
- twoupltx
- Print two virtual pages on each physical page
Cropmarks:
- crop
- Provides corner marks for camera alignment as well as for
trimming paper stacks, and additional page information on
every page if required
- cropmark
- Crop marks on \shipout
- cropmarks-pt
- Philip Taylor's cropmarks macros
- cropmark-pu
- Cropmark macros for Plain TeX
- evautofl
- Pages with cut lines and punch marks as part of the
calendar package
Page Numbers
- chappg
- Package for page numbering by chapter
- count1to
- Set count1 to count9 for selecting pages with a driver or
for accessing certain pages in a document
- lastpage
- Reference last page for "Page N of M" type footers
- pageno
- A 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
Manipulating Counters
- alphalph
- Converting numbers to letters, like \number but the
expansion consists of lowercase and uppercase letters
respectively
- arabic
- Read a lower-case roman number
- automagic
- Automagic numbering in Plain TeX
- chngcntr
- Change the resetting of counters
- count1to
- Set count1 to count9 for selecting pages with a driver or
for accessing certain pages in a document
- dcounter
- Support dynamic counters
- declare
- Declare register names locally
- engord
- Converts numbers to English ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd,
...)
- engrec
- Enumerate with lower- or uppercase Greek letters
- romanneg
- Roman neg.
- romannum
- Changes LaTeX generated numbers to be printed with roman
numerals instead of arabic digits
- zahl2string
- Format numbers as German words
Line and Paragraph Numbers
There are packages for working on critical editions.
- ledpar
- An extension of ledmac
enabling parallel typesetting in columns or on facing
pages and line numbering.
- lineno
- Line numbers on paragraphs
- numline
- Macros for numbering lines
- vruler
- A package for adding a vertical numbering to the general
text so that the text can be properly referenced. The vertical
ruler can be scaled and moved freely
Columns in a Page
- balance
- Balanced two-column mode
- balanced
- Defines a twocolumns environment that can be used anywhere
in a one-column document; columns are always balanced
- cuted
- Mixing onecolumn and twocolumn modes at any place of page
- dblfloatfix
- Fixes for floats in a twocolumn document
- doublecol
- Double-column page macros for Plain TeX
- fix2col
- Fix miscellaneous two column mode features
- flushend
- Columns balancing at last page
- ftnright
- Footnotes in two column documents
- mhequ
- Multicolumn equations, tags, labels, sub-numbering
- midfloat
- Mixing onecolumn and twocolumn modes at any place of page
- multicol
- Intermix single and multiple columns
- parallel
- Typesetting two languages side-by-side
Tables
See also packages for floats.
There are guides to typesetting tables.
There is Calc2LaTeX
for converting OpenOffice spreadsheets to LaTeX tables.
Typesetting Long Tables:
- bigtable
- Multi-page tables in Plain TeX
- bigtabular
- Tabulars that can split at page boundaries
- longtable
- Support for tables longer than a page. Generally easier to
use, and more flexible than
supertabular
- ltxtable
- Longtable and tabularx merge
- supertabular
- A multi-page tables package
- xtab
- An extended version of supertabular to automatically break
tables across pages and includes extra functionality
Formatting Decimal Columns:
- comma
- A flexible package that allows commas (or anything else) to
be inserted every three digits in a number, as in 1,234
- dcolumn
- Align on the decimal point of numbers in tabulars
- decimal
- LaTeX package for the traditional English decimal point,
instead of the American-style period
- numprint
- Print numbers with a separator every three digits
- rccol
- Provides right-centered numbers; furthermore, rounding to
the desired precision is possible
- warpcol
- Defines a tabular column type for formatting numerical
columns in LaTeX
Adding some Colour to Tables:
There are packages for colour and
shading in general.
- colortab
- Shade, or colour cells of tables and halign
- colortbl
- Allows rows and columns to be coloured, and even individual
cells
- shadbox
- Shade the background of any box (text, figure, table, etc.)
Misc:
- array
- Arrays and tables with formatted columns
- Array Maker
- A program for making latex and xypic arrays
- arydshln
- Horizontal and vertical dashed lines in arrays and tabulars
- autotab
- Generating tabular setups
- bigdelim
- May be used to place multi-row delimiters inside a tabular
or array, in cooperation with the
ctable
- Easily typeset centered tables
multirow package
- bigstrut
- Struts for opening up tabular spacing
- blkarray
- Extended array and tabular
- booktabs
- Nicer layout of tables
- btable
- Bordered tables in plain TeX
- cellspace
- Ensure minimal spacing of table cells
- cellular
- Cellular table construction
- csvtools
- Allows you to repeatedly perform a set of LaTeX commands on
data in each row of a comma separated variable (CSV) file
- delarray
- Add delimiters (parentheses etc.) around arrays, including
nesting brackets
- easybmat
- Writing block matrices with equal column widths or equal
rows heights or both, with various kinds of rules between rows
and columns
- easyeqn
- Introduces some equation environments that simplify writing
of equations
- easytable
- Tables with equal column widths or equal rows heights or
both, with various kinds of rules (lines) between rows and
columns
- eqnarray
- Defines an equationarray environment, that allows more than
three columns, but otherwise behaves like LaTeX's eqnarray
environment
- Excel-to-LaTeX
- Convert Excel spreadsheets to LaTeX tables (works with Excel
up to Excel 97)
- ftcap
- Allows \caption at the beginning of a table-environment
- hhline
- Better horizontal lines in tabulars and arrays
- hvdashln
- Definitions of horizontal and vertical dashed lines for the
array and tabular environment
- LaTable
- A near-WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX tables
- 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).
- multirow
- Creates tabular cells spanning multiple rows
- savefnmark
- Save name of the footnote mark for reuse
- slashbox
- Defines commands to produce tabular cells with diagonal
lines in them, with text above and below the line to label the
column and row that the cell is in
- tabls
- Better vertical spacing in tables and arrays (tabular lineskip)
- tabularx
- Tabulars that widen automatically
- tap
- An easy TeX macro package for typesetting complex tables
- threeparttable
- Tables with captions and notes all the same width
Floats
See also the packages for including
graphics and tables.
- algorithm2e
- An environment for writing algorithms, defining an
algorithm as a floating object
- algorithms
- Defines a floating algorithm environment
- boxhandler
- Flexible Captioning and Deferred Box/List Printing
- captcont
- Retain float number accross several floats
- caption
- Extends caption capabilities for figures and tables
- caption2
- Newer version of the caption package
- capt-of
- Putting captions to something that's not a float
- captcont
- Retain float number accross several floats
- captdef
- Declare free-standing \caption commands
- ccaption
- Continuation headings and legends for floats
- dblfloatfix
- Fixes for floats in a twocolumn document
- dmhgener
- Equation, figure (etc.) numbering and referencing
- dpfloat
- Support for double-page floats
- endfloat
- Move floats to the end with markers where they belong
- figcaps
- Collect figure captions for later printing
- float
- Improved interface for floating objects (defining your
own floats and improving the behaviour of the old ones)
- floatfig
- Allows text to be wrapped around figures
- floatflt
- Float text around figures and tables which do not span the
full width of a page, improving upon
floatflt
- floatrow
- Extension or addition for
float package which offers
possibilities to put floats side by side, to put a caption
beside a float. All floats of one type appear in one layout.
- hangcaption
- Defines a variant of the caption command to produce captions
with hanging indentation
- graphfig
- Combines the tools of the graphic,
subfigure and
float
packages in a way that makes their use simpler and more robust
- here
- Provides the H option for floats in LaTeX to mean that the
float should really be placed here
- hvfloat
- Rotating caption and object of floats in different ways
- hypcap
- Adjusting the anchors of captions with the
hyperref package
- marginnote
- Typesetting margin notes inside floats, footnotes, or frames
made with the framed package
- mcaption
- Provides a margincap environment to put figure or table
captions in the margin
- nonfloat
- Non-floating table and figure captions
- photo
- A float environment for photographs
- refcheck
- Check references (in figures, table, equations, etc)
- rotfloat
- A package for rotating floats
- sidecap
- Typeset captions sideways
- stfloats
- Floating baselineskip, footnotes below the floats, dblfloats
at bottom
- subfigure
- Generates sub-figures within one normal figure
- subfloat
- Enables sub-numbering of different floats (figures and
tables) similar to the subequations divided into subfigures
- topcapt
- Place captions above figures and tables
- wrapfig
- Produces figures which text can flow around
Creating Indices and Glossaries
- abbr
- Simple macros supporting abreviations for Plain and LaTeX
- abbrevs
- A LaTeX package defining "abbreviation macros,"
which expand to defined text and insert following space
intelligently, based on context
- acromake
- Defines a command that will expand to an acronym and its
definition (on first use) and just the acronym thereafter
- acronym
- Ensures that all acronyms used in the text are spelled out
in full at least once; provides an environment to build a list
of acronyms
- addindex
- A C/Lex program for adding index entries to LaTeX document
- appendix
- Extra control of appendices
- authorindex
- A package to generate a list of all authors cited in a
document along with a list of pages where these citations
occur
- corridx
- A preprocessor for correcting index entries so as to make
sorting with makeindex
easier, available as Pascal source and Windows binaries
- esindex
- Typset index entries in Spanish documents
- forindex
- Generating and deleting \index entries automatically
- gloss
- Create glossaries using BibTeX
- glosstex
- Atomatic preparation of glossaries; combines the
functionality of acronym
and nomencl
- index
- Extended index for LaTeX including multiple indexes
- juraabbrev
- Handle abbreviations for typesetting (German) juridical
documents
- makeglos
- Include a glossary into a document
- makeidx
- Standard LaTeX package for creating indexes
- makeindex
- A general purpose hierarchical index generator
- nomencl
- Produce lists of symbols as in nomenclature using the makeidx program
- splitindex
- Unlimited number of indices
- toolbox
- A package for (La)TeX which provides some macros which are
convenient for writing indices, glossaries, or other macros
Bibliography
For showing \cite and \bibitem
crossreferences use the
drftcite package.
BibTeX:
- amsrefs
- A LaTeX-based replacement for BibTeX
- biblatex
- A complete reimplementation of the bibliographic facilities
provided by LaTeX in conjunction with BibTeX, including
multiple and multi-lingual bibliographies
bibtex
- bibtex
- Bibliography management for LaTeX which allows the user to
store his citation data in generic form, while printing
citations in a document in the form specified by a
BibTeX style, to be specified in
the document itself
- bibtex8bit
- A fully 8-bit adaptation of
bibtex 0.99
- camel
- Comprehensive bibliography manager, especially for
anglo-saxon legal texts
- macbibtex
- A port of bibtex which is
distributed with OzTeX for
the Macintosh OS
Formatting Citations and Your Bibliography:
Below, major bibliography styles are sorted according to the systems used
in different fields of research. E. g., in the
humanities we mostly use
short-title systems that
require styles different from the standard numerical system supported
by LaTeX natively. However, there are more packages for
formatting numerical systems differently, and
author-year systems are also
supported.
Please note that this section only lists the major bibliographic
styles. So if you are watching for a particular style please refer
to the sections
Some more Bibliography Styles,
Multilingual Support, and
Science respectively.
Numerical System:
- breakcites
- Makes a very minor change to the operation of the \cite
command in order to ensure that multiple citations may break
at line end
- cite
- Supports compressed, sorted lists of numerical citations
- natbib
- Bibliography style with author-year and numbered references
- notoccite
- Prevent erroneous numbering of cites when using BibTeX/unsrt
Author-Year System:
- authordate
- Produces styles loosely based on the recommendations of
British Standard 1629(1976), Butcher's
"Copy-editing" and the
Chicago Manual of Style
- bibentry
- Citing full bibliographic entries in running text
- There are several packages drawing on the recommendations
from the The Chicago Manual of Style, namely
achicago,
achicago-bst,
chicago,
jas99,
jas99m, and
newapa.
- harvard
- The Harvard bibliography style family
- natbib
- Bibliography style with author-year and numbered references
Author-Number System:
- din1505
- Bibliography styles for German texts to work with
natbib
- natbib
- Bibliography style with author-year and numbered references
Short-Title System:
- bibarts
- A package to assist in making bibliographical lists common
in the arts
- camel
- Comprehensive bibliography manager (prototype citation
engine for LaTeX3)
that will be available under BibTeX 1.0 on release
- jurabib
- bibtex databases for
German legal texts in the first place, but also of interest to
everyone else working in the humanities
Some more Bibliography Styles:
- aaai-named
- BibTeX style for AAAI, presumably for use with the
aaai package
- abstyles
- Adaptable BibTeX styles
- alphanumb
- A modification on alpha.bst
- ama
- AMA manual of style citations
- ascelike
- Bibliography style for the American Society of Civil
Engineer
- catalanbib
- Several Catalan bibliografic styles for
BibTeX
- cbe
- Bibliography style for Council of Biology Editors format
- cj
- BibTeX style for Computer Journal of British Computer Society
- din1505
- Bibliography styles for German texts to work with
natbib
- dk-bib
- Danish variants of standard BibTeX styles
- econometrica
- BibTeX support for Econometrica
- economic
- BibTeX support for submitting to Economics journals
- ecta
- Bibliography style file for submission to Econometrica
Multilingual Bibliographies:
Multiple Bibliographies in a document:
- bibtopic
- Include multiple "by topic" bibliographies in a
document (e.g., one bibliography for primary literature and
one for secondary literature)
- bibunits
- A style to generate separate bibliographies for different
units (parts) of the text (chapters, sections or
bibunit-environments).
- chapterbib
- Separate bibliography for each \include file
- multibbl
- Redefines the standard bibliographic commands so that one
can generate multiple reference sections
- multibib
- Allows the creation of references to multiple bibliographies
within one document
Tools for managing your Bibliography:
Some tools that quite facilitate editing your BibTeX database,
and that help manage your bibliography.
- alphabib
- Bash script that inserts headers into the bibtex bbl file so
as to make a comprehensive list of citations easier to
overlook
- ams2bib
- Perl script for converting AMS-TeX style bibliography
entries to BibTeX
- arxivbib
- Get bibliography entries from arXiv.org
- barracuda
- A bibtex database manager
that allows loading, editing, merging, sorting, searching,
printing and saving of BibTeX database files
- bibbuild
- A bibliography builder for FileMaker Pro 7
- bibcard
- An XView based interface for BibTeX databases
- bibdb
- bibtex bibliography
manager fow MS-Windows and MS-DOS
- bibfind
- Reads your bib file and prints those references that match
your search string
- bibhtml
- Consists of a Perl script and a
BibTeX style file, which
together allow you to compile a bibliography for a collection
of HTML files
- bibindex
- A stand-alone tool for indexing
BibTeX
documents to be searched using the corresponding
biblook tool
- bible
- A BibTeX library editor for Win32
- biblook
- A stand-alone tool for searching BibTeX documents which have
been indexed by bibindex
- biblio-perl
- A program for preprocessing bibliographic references
(written in Perl)
- biblios
- A MS-Windows95 tool that uses the CGI protocol so that
BibTeX files can be managed
remotely using an HTTP-server on the server side and a
Web-browser on the client side
- bibtex-gen
- A simple interactive script to generate BibTeX Files
- bibtool
- Command line manipulation of
BibTeX files
- bibtexmng
- Manipulate BibTeX database files
- bibtools
- Bib management tools, including a bib2html converter, and a
style file for listing papers on a homepage/
cv
- bibweb
- Automatically retrieve bibliography from MathSciNet
- bidstobibtex
- A tool to take input from a BIDS email message (generated
using one of the downloading formats) to
BibTeX
- btool
- Perl library for parsing and processing
BibTeX files
- docarc
- Document Archive is a bibliographic database system (which
can also store document files) that runs over a network to
allow multiple users to access the same data
- ebib
- A BibTeX database manager for GNU Emacs, integrated with
Emacs (La)TeX mode
- jabref
- A graphical frontend to manage BibTeX databases (requires
Java)
- pybliographer
- A comprehensive tool for managing bibliographic databases on
*ix platforms
Converters for
BibTeX databases:
- bbl2html
- Convert a LaTeX .bbl file to formatted html code
- bib2dvi
- A Unix system shell script that uses the AWK text processor
for generating DVI files from bibliography files
- bib2xhtml
- A program that converts BibTeX files into HTML (specifically
XHTML 1.0)
- bibex
- Automates the extraction of bibliographic references from
BibTeX databases
- bibexport
- A Bourne shell script that uses BibTeX to extract .bib
entries that are \cite'd in a document
- bibextract
- A set of scripts for extracting entries from .bib file, in
particular those cited in a particular document
- bibfile-reformat-pages
- Small gawk script to put all the pages within a set of page
ranges in a .bib file into a uniform format
- bibhtml
- Consists of a Perl script and a
BibTeX style file, which
together allow you to compile a bibliography for a collection
of HTML files
- bibsort
- Sort a BibTeX bibliography file using Unix AWK and SORT
- citation
- A bibliographical conversion program
- tex2bib
- Converts bibitems embedded in a document to bib format
- tex2ltx
- Useful for converting plain TeX (AMS) files into AMS-LaTeX
and convert plain AMS-TeX bibliographic references into
BibTeX
Some more additional Packages:
- authorindex
- A package to generate a list of all authors cited in a
document along with a list of pages where these citations
occur
- backref
- Bibliographical back referencing
- backrefx
- Bibliographical back referencing (obsolete)
- beebe
- A collection of TeX-related bibliographies and BibTeX style
files
- bibcheck
- Check on references to items in thebibliography
- biblio
- An extensive collection of
bibtex bibliographies on
many topics and for many journals
- biblist
- bibtex styles by Joachim
Schrod
- bibplain
- Simple macros for using BibTeX with Plain TeX
- bibtex-test
- BibTeX testing files
- btool
- Perl library for parsing and processing BibTeX files
- chbibref
- Change the Bibliography/References title
- cite
- Supports compressed, sorted lists of numerical citations
- citeref
- Support backward references in the bibliography
- compactbib
- Allows many thebibliography environments with continuous
numbering
- custom-bib
- Generates customized bibtex
bibliography styles from a generic file using
docstrip, includes support
for the harvard style
- development
- Bibtex style file for the journal Development
- doipubmed
- Special commands for use in bibliographies
- easybib
- Macro package for writing custom bibliographies with a
simple AMS-TeX-like syntax
- eplain
- extended version of the plain format, adding support for
bibliographies, tables of contents, enumerated lists, verbatim
input of files, numbered equations, tables, two-column output,
footnotes and commutative diagrams
- footbib
- Put bibliographic references as footnotes
- listbib
- Lists contents of bibtex
files for archival purposes
- rangecite
- Will turn a range of citations into something like [1..3]
- saferef
- Provides a means of expressing `typed' references (as it
were) within a document
- typedref
- Eliminate errors by enforcing the types of labels
- tocbibind
- Add bibliography/index/contents to
Table of Contents
- ut-backref
- A version of backref which adds to bibliography entries an
entry saying where this particular reference was cited
Fonts
See also
PostScript Support, and
Creating PDF Documents.
PostScript Type 1, and
Type 3 Fonts are listed in this section.
There are guides on using different types of fonts.
Computer Modern Fonts:
- aifont
- Virtual fonts and other related files for remapping the
BSR/YandY/AMS Type 1 Computer Modern fonts
- bbm
- "Blackboard-style" cm fonts
- bbm-macros
- LaTeX support for bbm
- bluesky-fonts
- Computer Modern family in PostScript Type 1 format
- bold-extra
- Use bold small caps and typewriter fonts with Computer
Modern OT1 encoding
- cm
- Computer Modern fonts; the typical (La)TeX typeface
designed by Donald Knuth
- cm-lgc
- Type 1 CM-based fonts for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic
- cm-mf-extra
- Extra MetaFont files for CM
- cm-mf-opt-kern
- Improve the kerning of CM fonts
- cmcyr
- Computer Modern fonts extended with Russian letters, in
MetaFont sources and ATM Compatible
- cmcyr-patch
- A set of Type 1 Cyrillic fonts
- cmextra
- Extra Computer Modern fonts, from the American Mathematical
Society
- cmoefont
- Old English glyphs to go with Computer Modern
- cmolddig
- A virtual fount setup for using old style digits by default
with the OT1 encoded Computer Modern Roman upright founts
- cmoutlines
- Outline versions of the Computer Modern fonts; for LaTeX support
see the fundus bundle
- cmpica
- A Computer Modern Pica variant
- cmsd
- A package including additional fd files, providing an
alternative interface to the CM Sans Serif boldface fonts
- cmslup
- Upright punctuation with CM slanted
- cmtiup
- Upright punctuation with CM slanted
- cmtt
- A package for handling the `cmtt' font better
- hfbright
- The hfbright fonts (Type1 version of the CM Bright fonts)
- zefonts
- Virtual T1 encoded Computer Modern fonts based on (OT1)
Computer Modern, Times, and Helvetica fonts, intended to
simulate `dc' fonts
Extended Computer Fonts:
- ec
- The European Computer Modern Fonts supporting the complete
LaTeX T1 encoding defined at the 1990 TUG conference hold at
Cork/Ireland
- ecc
- The MetaFont sources and tfm files of the European Concrete
Fonts. This is the EC implementation of Knuth's
Concrete
- eco
- A set of font metric files and virtual fonts for using the
ec fonts with oldstyle numerals
fonts, including also the corresponding text companion fonts
- ec-plain
- A plain-like format using the ec fonts including an extended
math italic font (exmi) providing upright
greek letters
- ecpk
- No description available
- fontenc
- Standard package for activating ec fonts
- hfoldsty
- Provides virtual fonts for using oldstyle figures with the
European Computer Modern fonts. It does a similar job as the
eco package, but includes a
couple of improvements
- t1enc
- Obsolete package for activating ec fonts
Text Companion Fonts:
- ecc
- The MetaFont sources and tfm files of the European Concrete
Fonts. This is the EC implementation of Knuth's
Concrete
fonts, including also the corresponding text companion fonts
- textcomp
- The Text Companion fonts which provide many text symbols (such
as baht, bullet, copyright, musicalnote, onequarter, section,
and yen) in the TS1 encoding
The Concrete Fonts:
- beton
- Typeset a LaTeX2e document with the Concrete fonts designed
by Don Knuth and used in his book "Concrete
Mathematics"
- ccfonts
- LaTeX font definition files for the
concrete fonts and a
LaTeX package for typesetting documents using Concrete as the
default font family. The files support OT1, T1, TS1, and
Concrete math including AMS fonts
- concrete-macros
- Consistent text and maths using concrete fonts
- concrete-wrap
- A wrapper to load up the appropriate packages to use the
concrete fonts
- cc-pl
- Polish extension of Computer
concrete fonts (MetaFont
sources).
- cc-plps
- Polish extension of Computer
concrete fonts in Type1
format
- concrete
- Concrete Roman fonts, designed by Donald E. Knuth,
originally for use with Euler
math fonts
- concrete-wrap
- A wrapper to load up the appropriate packages to use the
concrete fonts
- ecc
- The MetaFont sources and tfm files of the European Concrete
Fonts. This is the EC implementation of Knuth's
Concrete
fonts, including also the corresponding text companion fonts
- euler
- Provides a setup for using the AMS Euler family of fonts for
math in LaTeX documents
CM-super Fonts:
- cm-super
- CM-Super family of fonts in type 1 format
Latin Modern Fonts:
The Bera Fonts:
- bera
- Contains the Bera Type 1 fonts, and a zip archive containing
files to use the fonts with LaTeX
AMS Fonts for Mathematical Typesetting:
- amsfonts
- Augments the standard set normally distributed with TeX,
including: extra mathematical symbols; blackboard bold letters
(uppercase only);
fraktur letters; subscript sizes of
bold math italic and bold Greek letters; subscript sizes of large
symbols such as sum and product; added sizes of the
Computer Modern small caps font;
cyrillic fonts (from the University of
Washington); Euler math fonts
- dblfont
- Blackboard bold font package
- euler
- Provides a setup for using the AMS Euler family of fonts for
math in LaTeX documents
PostScript Type1 Fonts:
- brushscr
- BrushScript fonts including pbsi, a Type-1 PostScript font
containing BrushScript Italic characters that simulates
hand-written characters
- cmbright
- A family of sans serif fonts for TeX and LaTeX, based on
Donald Knuth's CM fonts. It comprises OT1, T1 and TS1 encoded
text fonts of various shapes as well as all the fonts
necessary for mathematical typesetting, incl. AMS
symbols. This collection provides all the necessary files for
using the fonts with LaTeX
- courier
- Adobe Type 1 "free" copies of Courier
- dictsym
- Type1 font and all files required to use it with LaTeX that
provides a number of symbols commonly used in dictionaries
- mf2pt1
- Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts from
MetaFont source
PostScript Type3 Fonts:
TrueType Fonts:
- freetype
- A free, full-featured TrueType rasterizer library
- ttf2mf
- MS program to convert True Type to
metafont
- ttf2pk
- This tool rasterizes the glyph outlines of a TrueType font
into a bitmap font in PK format as part of the
FreeType package
- ttf2pt1
- A tool that converts True Type fonts into
PS Type 1 fonts
- ttf2tex
- A Bash script which will create all files neccessary to use
TrueType fonts with teTeX
from a set of TTF files
- ttf2tfm
- Extracts the metric and kerning information of a TrueType
font and converts it into metric files usable by TeX (quite
similar to afm2tfm which is part of the
dvips package)
- ttftogf
- Convert MS-Windows True Type fonts to GF format
MetaFont and MetaPost:
- closefrm
- Tidy up after reading a MetaPost file
- dice
- A metafont font that can produce die faces in 2D or with
various 3D effects
- drawing
- Simple drawings with MetaFont
- dviincl
- Include a DVI page into MetaPost output
- emp
- A package for encapsulated
MetaPost pictures in LaTeX
- epsfview
- Mac AppleScript tool for viewing figures generated with
MetaPost
- epsincl
- Include EPS in MetaPost figures
- exteps
- Include EPS figures in MetaPost
- meta-mode
- A GNU Emacs Lisp package that implements a major mode for
editing MetaFont or
MetaPost sources
- metapost
- A tool based on MetaFont for producing precise technical
illustrations, creating scalable PostScript instead of bitmaps
- metapost-examples
- Example drawings using metapost
- mf2pt1
- Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts from
MetaFont source
- mf2pt3
- Perl script to generate PostScript Type
3 fonts from MetaFont
sources by processing
MetaPost output
- threed
- Create animations of 3-dimensional objects (such as
polyhedra) in metapost
Symbol Fonts:
The PostScript symbol fonts
Zapf Dingbats are supported by the pifont package
which is part of psnfss.
- astro
- Astronomical (planetary) symbols
- bbding
- Symbol font including many Zapf dingbats
- cmastro
- Font for planetary symbols
- cmll
- Symbols for linear logic
- dictsym
- Type1 font and all files required to use it with LaTeX that
provides a number of symbols commonly used in dictionaries
- dingbat
- A dingbat symbol font
- genealogy
- A simple compilation of the genealogical symbols found in
the wasy and `gen' font
- gensymb
- Generic symbols for both text and math mode
- harpoon
- Extra harpoons, using the graphics package
- hoekwater
- Fonts originally created in MetaFont, transformed to
PostScript by Taco Hoekwater; includes
logo,
manfnt,
rsfs,
stmaryrd,
wasy,
wasy2,
xipa
- ifsym
- Symbols for alpinistic, electronic, meteorological,
geometric etc. usage
- manfnt
- LaTeX support for the TeX book symbols
- marvosym
- Martin Vogel's Symbole (marvosym) font
- marvosym-mac
- A Macintosh version of the marvosym font
- rsfs
- Contains MetaFont sources for fonts of uppercase script
letters for use as symbols in scientific and mathematical
typesetting, in contrast to the informal script fonts such as
that used for the `calligraphic' symbols in the TeX math
symbol font
- stmaryrd
- St Mary Road symbols for functional programming
- stmaryrd-ps
- PostScript version of the
stmaryrd fonts
- textcomp
- The Text Companion fonts which
provide many text symbols (such as baht, bullet, copyright,
musicalnote, onequarter, section, and yen) in the TS1 encoding
- texlogos
- Ready-to-use LaTeX logos
- tipa
- Fonts and macros for IPA phonetics characters
- wasy
- The wasy fonts (Waldis symbol fonts)
- wasy2
- The wasy fonts (Waldis symbol fonts)
- wasy2-ps
- Converted (PostScript) outlines of the
wasy fonts
- wasysym
- Extra characters from the Waldis symbol fonts
- wsuipa
- Style for using International Phonetic Alphabet fonts
- wsuipa2tipa
- A filter that translates an old LaTeX document, replacing
all wsuipa font commands
with tipa font commands
The "Euro" Currency Symbol €:
- euro
- Converts arbitrary national currency amounts using the Euro
as base unit, and typesets monetary amounts in almost any
desired way; automatically. Conversion rates for the so-called
Euro-zone countries are already built-in
- eurofont
- Provides a command that prints a euro symbol
- euroitc
- LaTeX interface for the ITC euro font symbols
- europs
- Provides access to Adobe's Euro currency symbol fonts from
LaTeX
- eurosans
- Provides a convenient interface for using the free Adobe
Type 1 PostScript Euro fonts
- eurosym
- The new European currency symbol for
the "Euro" implemented in Metafont, using
the official European Commission dimensions, and providing
several shapes
- marvosym
- Martin Vogel's Symbole (marvosym) font
- marvosym-mac
- A Macintosh version of the marvosym font
- textcomp
- The Text Companion fonts which
provide many text symbols (such as baht, bullet, copyright,
musicalnote, onequarter, section, and yen) in the TS1 encoding
Typesetting Barcode:
- barcodes-vulis
- A font for making barcodes
- barcodes
- Fonts for making barcodes
- code128
- A set of barcode macros for the Code 128 standard
- ean
- Font for making EAN barcodes
- wbarcode
- Typeset common (and less common) barcodes with TeX
Typesetting Initials:
- capparmode
- Typeset paragraphs with the first letter of the paragraph in
a large font with the first few lines of the paragraph
indented to make room for this first large letter with Plain
TeX, very much like
lettrine for LaTeX
- dropcaps
- Use dropped capitals to start a paragraph in LaTeX 2.09
- dropping
- A LaTeX2e macro for dropping the first character(s) (or
word(s)) of a paragraph, extending the LaTeX 2.09 package
dropcaps and automatically
taking care of finding the font name
- gothic
- Gothic and ornamental initial fonts by Yannis Haralambous
- initials
- A special font (yinit) is defined to be used for initial
dropped capitals
- lettrine
- Supports various dropped capitals styles, typically those
described in the French typographic books
Historic Fonts:
Antiquity and Early Ages:
- aramaic
- Fonts for Aramaic script
- aramaic-serto
- A font for Syriac expressed in Serto
- archaic
- A collection of archaic fonts
- byzfonts
- Byzantine Music Font
- cypriot
- A script which was used on Cyprus for writing Greek
- etruscan
- Fonts for the Etruscan script
- cypriote
- A font for ancient Cypriot Greek inscriptions
- greek6cbc
- A Greek font from the sixth century BC
- greek4cbc
- A Greek font from 394BC
- hieroglf
- A Metafont version of about 75 Egyptian hieroglyphs, but the
package is not for serious Egyptologists
- hieroglyph
- A package for typesetting ancient egyptian
hieroglyphs which contains a hieroglyphic font, a number of
style files, and an helper program in C that allows one to
type hieroglyphic texts using the so-called "manuel de
codage", which is the current standard for encoding
ancient egyptian; also includes the Type 1 fonts for creating
PDF files.
- linearb
- Linear B script used in the Bronze Age for Mycenaean Greek
- oldprsn
- Fonts old Persian cuneiform script
- phoenician
- Fonts for the semitic script in use from about 1600 BC
- protosem
- Fonts for proto-Semitic cuneiform script
- runic
- Fonts for Anglo-Saxon futharc script
- syriac
- A font for Syriac written in Estrangelo
- ugarite
- Fonts for Ugaritic cuneiform script
- viking
- Scandinavian runic alphabet as used by the Vikings
Gothic Fonts:
- blackletter
- A blackletter font
- blacklettert1
- A Gothic font
- cmfrak
- Reencoded versions of Haralambous's fraktur fonts
- gothic
- Gothic and ornamental initial fonts by Yannis Haralambous
- mfnfss
- Packages to typeset
oldgerman and
pandora fonts in LaTeX
- yfonts
- A LaTeX interface to the old-german fonts designed by Yannis
Haralambous: Gotisch, Schwabacher, Fraktur and the baroque
initials
- yfonts-t1
- Old German-style fonts, in type 1 format
- yfrak
- Old German Fraktur font
- ygoth
- Old German Gothic font
- yinit
- Old German decorative initials
- yswab
- Old German Schwabacher font
Bookhand Fonts:
- auncial
- Metafont fonts based on the Artificial Uncial manuscript
book-hand used between the 6th and 10th century AD
- auncial-new
- Artificial Uncial font and LaTeX support macros; an
experimental new version of
auncial
- bookhands
- A collection of book-hand fonts
- b1encoding
- Characterises and defines the author's B1 encoding for use
with LaTeX when typesetting things using his Bookhands fonts
- carolmin
- Metafont fonts based on the Carolingan Miniscules manuscript
book-hand used between the 8th and 12th century AD
- egothic
- Metafont fonts based on the Early Gothic manuscript
book-hand used between the 11th and 12th century AD
- humanist
- Humanist manuscript book-hand font
- huncial
- Metafont fonts based on the Half Uncial manuscript book-hand
used between the 3rd and 9th centuries
- inslrmaj
- Metafont fonts based on the Insular Majuscule manuscript
book-hand used between the 6th and 9th centuries
- inslrmin
- Metafont fonts based on the Insular Miniscules manuscript
book-hand used from the 6th century onwards
- pgothic
- Metafont fonts based on the Gothic Textura Prescisus vel
sine pedibus manuscript book-hand used from the 13th century
AD
- rotunda
- Metafont fonts based on the Rotunda manuscript book-hand
used between the 13th and 15th century AD
- sqrcaps
- Metafont fonts based on the Square Capitals manuscript
book-hand used from the 1st century AD
- tgothic
- Metafont fonts based on the Gothic Textura Quadrata
manuscript book-hand used between the 13th and 15th century AD
- uncial
- Metafont fonts based on the Uncial manuscript book-hand used
between the 3rd and 6th century AD
Runes:
- allrunes
- Fonts and LaTeX package for almost all runes
- bard
- Celtic bardic runes font
- runic
- Fonts for Anglo-Saxon futharc script, this font was used in
England until just after printing was established
Typesetting Handwriting:
- augie
- A calligraphic font for simulating informal handwriting
- aurical
- Calligraphic font (AuriocusKalligraphicus) for LaTeX in
T1-encoding
- brushscr
- BrushScript fonts including pbsi, a Type-1 PostScript font
containing BrushScript Italic characters that simulates
hand-written characters
- calligra
- Calligraphic font in the handwriting style of the author,
Peter Vanroose, which may be used with the
fundus package
- calrsfs
- Nicer calligraphic letters
- rsfs
- Contains MetaFont sources for fonts of uppercase script
letters for use as symbols in scientific and mathematical
typesetting, in contrast to the informal script fonts such as
that used for the 'calligraphic' symbols in the TeX math
symbol font
- rsfs-ps
- Converted (PostScript) outlines of the
rsfs fonts
- schwell
- Calligraphic font for typesetting handwriting in Schwell
fonts
- sueterlin
- Calligraphic font for typesetting handwriting in Suetterlin
fonts
- twcal
- A calligraphic font which may be used for typesetting what
is called the "vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift" in
German used in school books for first form
Installing Fonts:
- fontinst
- TeX macros for converting Adobe Font Metric files to TeX
metric and virtual font format
- fontinstallationguide
- How to install new fonts
Misc:
- a2ac
- Enables the use of PostScript fonts while typesetting texts
in languages where accented letters are used. The program may
be used to prepare a font for any typesetting system,
especially TeX
- accfonts
- Two utilities to permit easy manipulation of fonts, in
particular the creation of unusual accented characters
(mkt1font and vpl2vpl)
- arev
- Virtual fonts and macros for the Arev Sans font intended for
use in presentations
- ascii
- Support for IBM extended ASCII font
- apl
- Fonts for typesetting APL programs
- arial
- Provides Arial fonts
- bitstrea
- Font metrics, and macro support in LaTeX2e, for the free
Bitstream fonts
- capbas
- Capital baseball "matrix printer" font collection
- cirth
- Fonts for Cirth
- cbcoptic
- Coptic fonts and LaTeX macros for usage and for philology
- cclicenses
- Typeset Creative Commons license logos
- comicsans
- Use Microsoft Comic Sans font
- corelfonts
- An installation script for using Corel Ventura fonts with
LaTeX
- corelpak
- Metrics, etc., for fonts distributed with Corel products
- corelpak-contrib
- Manage Corel-distributed fonts
- courier-scaled
- Provides a scaled Courier font
- covfonts
- Make Apostrophic Laboratories's Covington fonts available to
TeX and LaTeX
- cun
- A cuneiform font
- dancers
- Font for the Conan Doyle's "The Dancing Men"
- dayroman
- The Day Roman typeface
- dmfonts
- Virtual fonts to provide T1 encoding
- doublestroke
- Typeset mathematical double stroke symbols
- duerer
- Computer Duerer fonts
- duerer-latex
- LaTeX support for the
duerer fonts
- epsdice
- A scalable dice font
- eiad
- Traditional style Irish fonts
- eiad-ltx
- LaTeX support for the eiad
font
- elvish
- Fonts for typesetting Tolkien Elvish scripts
- emerald
- Support for the free emerald city fontwerks fonts
- engwar
- Font for typesetting Tolkien Engwar script
- exscale
- Implements scaling of the 'cmex' fonts
- extsizes
- Extends article and report with extra sized fonts of size
8--20pt
- fundus
- Providing LaTeX access to various font families
- tengwarscript
- LaTeX support for using Tengwar fonts
PostScript Support
PostScript Type 1, and
Type 3 fonts are listed in the
Fonts section.
dvips:
- aurora
- Header files for dvips to make colour separations
- cmyk-hax
- A TeX macro package for colour manipulation using PostScript
requiring dvips
- dvips
- A dvi to PostScript driver by Tom Rokicki
- dvipscol
- Alter the usage of the dvips color stack
- dvipsconfig
- Collection of dvips PostScript headers
- dvipsdoc
- No description available
- dvipsk
- Convert DVI to Postscript - with KPSE search path
- dvips-os2
- OS/2 executable for dvips
- dvips-shell
- A dvips Shell for
MS-Windows32
- epsf
- The original graphics inclusion macros for use with dvips;
still widely used by Plain TeX users
- epsfx
- A TeX macro package for including EPS graphics; an
alternative to epsf
The psnfss packages mathppl, mathptm,
palatino, utopia and times are obsolete and hence should not be used any more.
- altfont
- A generalised replacement for some parts of
psnfss and
mfnfss
- lw35nfsx
- LaTeX psnfss support for
the 35 printer resident PostScript fonts using
ly1 text font encoding,
employing the Berry names
- ly1
- The Y&Y texnansi (TeX 'n ANSI) encoding
- psnfss
- Font support for common PostScript fonts, including font
definition files, macros and font metrics for common
PostScript fonts using the New Font Selection Scheme, or
NFSS2, originally implemented by Sebastian Rahtz. Implements
the following style files: avant, bookman, chancery,
charter,
courier, helvet, mathpazo, mathptmx, newcent, pifont, and fourier
- psnfss-source
- Sources (makefiles and fontinst scripts) of the PSNFSS
- psnfssx
- Extra styles and encodings for PS fonts, including Y&Y
encoding support
PS-Tricks:
PS-Tricks has its own
homepage.
There are more packages for drawing
curcuit diagrams and for working in the
field of electronics.
- pdftricks
- Support for pstricks in
pdftex
- PS-Tricks
- An extensive collection of PostScript macros that is
compatible with most TeX macro packages, used for drawing
technical, and mathematical diagrams
- pst-3dplot
- Draw 3d curves and graphs using PSTricks
- pst-bar
- Produces bar charts using pstricks
- pst-blur
- PSTricks package for "blurred" shadows
- pst-circ
- PSTricks package for drawing electric circuits
- pst-fr3d
- Draw 3-dimensional framed boxes using PSTricks
- pst-func
- PSTricks package for plotting mathematical functions
- pst-geo
- A PSTricks related package for various cartographic
projections of the terrestrial sphere
- pst-ghsb
- Draw HSB colour gradients
- pst-gr3d
- Three dimensional grids with PSTricks
- pst-infixplot
- Using pstricks plotting capacities with infix expressions
rather than RPN
- pst-jftree
- Drawing trees for use in linguistic analysis
- pst-lens
- Lenses with PSTricks
- pst-light3d
- Three ensional lighting effects on characters and PSTricks
graphics, like lines, curves, plots, etc.
- pst-math
- Enhancement of postscript math operators to use with
pstricks
- pst-node
- Allows you to define nodes in your document, and to draw
connections between the nodes
- pst-optic
- Optic drawings: lenses and mirrors
- pst-osci
- Enables you to produce oscilloscope "screen shots"
- pst-poly
- Drawing polygons with PSTricks
- pst-slpe
- Sophisticated colour gradients
- pst-uml
- Support for drawing moderately complex UML (Universal
Modelling Language) diagrams
- pst-vue3d
- Draw perspective views of three dimensional objects
- pst-xkey
- Key-value syntax for pstricks packages
Misc:
- cep
- Compression tools for PostScript
- cmyk-hax
- A TeX macro package for colour manipulation using PostScript
requiring dvips
- epstool
- Epstool is a utility to create or extract preview images in
EPS files, fix bounding boxes and convert to bitmaps
- pslatex
- A small package that makes LaTeX default to
"standard" PostScript fonts. It is basically a
merger of the obsolete times
and mathptm styles from
the psnfss suite of
packages, and hence should not be used any more
Creating PDF Documents
PDFTeX:
- pdftex
- An extension of TeX which directly generates PDF documents
instead of DVI
- pdftex_oztex
- PdfTeX designed to run with OzTeX
Packages for Special PDF Features:
- attachfile
- Attaching files to PDF documents
- cooltooltips
- Associate a pop-up window and tooltip with PDF hyperlinks,
as used in the visualfaq
- hyperref
- Extensive support for hypertext in LaTeX
- microtype
- Provides a LaTeX interface to pdfTeX's micro-typographic
extensions: character protrusion and font expansion. See also
pdfcprot
- pdfcprot
- Activating and setting of character protruding using
pdflatex. See also
microtype
- pdfcrop
- Crop PDF graphics
- pdfcrypt
- Allows the setting of pdf encryption options for pdfTeX and VTeX
- pdfpages
- Include pages from external PDF documents in LaTeX documents
- pdfscreen
- An extension of the hyperref
package to provide a screen-based document design
- pdfslide
- Make nive presentation slides using pdftex
- pdftricks
- Support for pstricks in pdftex
- thumbpdf
- Provides support, using Perl, for thumbnails in pdfTeX and
dvips/ps2pdf
Fonts for PDF Files:
- ae
- Virtual fonts for PDF-files with T1 encoded CMR-fonts
- aeguill
- A package adding several kinds of guillemets to the ae fonts
PDF Viewers and Tools:
- a2ping
- A UNIX command line utility written in Perl that converts
many raster image and vector graphics formats to EPS or PDF
and other page description formats
- acroread
- A tool from Adobe for reading Adobe PDF
files available for a variety of architectures
- cmap
- Make PDF files searchable and copyable in Acrobat Reader and
other compliant PDF viewers
- dvipdfm
- A dvi driver to produce PDF directly
- dvipdfmx
- An extended version of dvipdfm
- xpdf
- Previewing and manipulating upon PDF files on most platforms
available
Combining Documents
For linking documents by
crossreferences use xr.
See also Managing large Documents.
- askinclude
- Asks the user which files to put in a \includeonly command
- chapterfolder
- Package that simplifies working with folder structure;
useful for organizing complex projects
- combine
- Bundle individual documents into a single document, such as
when preparing a conference proceedings
- csvtools
- Allows you to repeatedly perform a set of LaTeX commands on
data in each row of a comma separated variable (CSV) file
- cwebhy
- Insert hyperlinks for included files
- de-macro
- A Python script that helps removing LaTeX macros from a
document
- dviconcat
- Concatenates dvi files
- dvicopy
- Copy and concatenate DVI files
- pdfpages
- Include pages from external PDF documents in LaTeX documents
- texdepend
- Find dependencies in a LaTeX file
- textmerg
- Merge text in TeX and LaTeX. Useful, for example, in mail
merge
- twoinone
- Print two pages on a single page (a4paper landscape)
- twoup
- Print two virtual pages on each physical page
- twoupltx
- Print two virtual pages on each physical page
- tvs
- A Perl script to collect all files which are needed to
re-typeset TeX documents by parsing TeX logs
Bundling all Packages necessary for
compiling a Document
- artex
- A Perl script that analyzes a LaTeX2e document to determine
whether it loads any non-standard files; if so, it produces
filecontents environments helpful for exchanging documents
with others
- bundledoc
- Bundle together all the files needed to build a LaTeX
document
- snapshot
- List the external dependencies of a LaTeX document
Managing different versions of your
document
See also Combining Documents, and
Managing large documents.
- backgrnd
- Mark text with grey background or change bar which probably
does not work in LaTeX2e
- changebar
- Generate changebars in LaTeX documents for indicating which
parts of the text have changed
- chappg
- Package for page numbering by chapter
- chbar
- Change bar marks in Plain TeX
- comment
- Selectively include/ exclude pieces of text, allowing the
user to define new, separately controlled, comment versions
- comment-pln
- Comment macros for Plain TeX
- draftcopy
- Places the word DRAFT (or other words) in light grey
diagonally across the background (or at the bottom) of each
(or selected) pages of the document
- drafthead
- Sets up page headers including date and time and the string
DRAFT, using myheadings page style
- extract
- Extract specific content from a source document and write
that to a target document
- pdfdraftcopy
- A package derived from the
draftcopy
package for use with
pdftex
- optional
- Facilitate optional printing of parts of a document
- prelim2e
- Allows the marking of preliminary versions of a document, by
default marking the document as draft and putting a timestamp on
it. Can be used together with e.g. the
version,
rcs, and
rcsinfo packages and it may
be used with the scrtime package from the
koma-script bundle.
- rcs
- Use RCS (revision control system) tags in LaTeX documents
- rcsinfo
- A package to extract RCS (Revision Control System)
information and use it in a LaTeX document
- svn
- Lets you typeset (in LaTeX) the value of Subversion keywords
which is approximately an equivalent to the
rcs package, but for
Subversion
rather than CVS
- svninfo
- A package for incorporating the values of Subversion
keywords into typeset documents
- version
- Add version number to DVI file
- versions
- This package does the same as the
version package, but
corrects, improves, and extends it in both implementation and
function
- vhistory
- Simplifies the creation of a history of versions of a
document
Managing large Documents
See also Combining Documents, and
Managing different versions of your document.
- chapterfolder
- Provides a macro to define chapter/ section/ subsection
folders that contain the files for chapter/section/subsection,
and provides a macro that allows inclusion without using the
full path
- collect
- Provides a 'collect' environment, that typesets text and
saves it for later re-use. (A variant collects text in a
macro.)
- excludeonly
- Prevent files being \include-ed
- import
- Allow input of a file with its own inputs from another
directory
- progress
- A package which. when compiling TeX and LaTeX documents,
generates a HTML file showing an overview of a documents'
state (of how finished it is)
Multilingual Support
Try the parallel
package for typesetting bilingual versions of a text side by side in
two columns. parrun may be useful
for typesetting two streams of text running parallel one above the
other.
There are packages for typesetting
critical editions too.
You may also typeset two-language
dictionaries using LaTeX2e.
Omega is intended for multilingual
typesetting, supporting unicode and bi-directional typesetting.
Misc:
The babel Package:
- The babel
package currently provides support for 41 languages in all,
both modern and ancient. It should be used whenever possible
as babel is available on all LaTeX systems.
Multilingual Bibliographies:
- babelbib
- Generate multilingual bibliographies in cooperation with babel
Arabic:
- arabtex
- Macros and fonts for typesetting Arabic and Hebrew
Armenian:
- armtex
- An Armenian system for TeX/LaTeX(2e)/METAFONT
Basque:
- bahyph
- Hyphenation patterns for basque at CTAN:language/basque
Bangla and Asamese:
- bangtex
- Class files for writing Bangla and Asamese with LaTeX
Bengali:
- arosgn
- Support for the Bengali language
- bangtex
- Class files for writing Bangla and Asamese with LaTeX
- ebong
- Utility for writing Bengali in Rapid Roman Format
- pandey
- Support for the Bengali language
Burmese:
- burmese
- basic support for writing Burmese with LaTeX. Requires
Perl.
Casyl:
- casyl
- Typeset Cree/Inuktitut in Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
Catalan:
Cherokee:
- cherokee
- Fonts for typesetting Cherokee
- ocherokee
- Typesetting the Chirokee language with the
Omega version of LaTeX
Chinese, Japanese, Korean:
For information on Chinese TeX see the CTeX homepage.
- arphic
- Arphic (Chinese) font packages
- china2e
- A LaTeX package to produce Chinese calendar symbols of the
old Chinese lunisolar calendar
- cjk
- A macro package which enables the use of
Chinese/ Japanese/ Korean with LaTeX2e
- cjk-fonts
- Fonts to go with the
cjk macro package for
Chinese/ Japanese/ Korean with LaTeX2e
- hlatex
- Support for Korean documents written in Korean standard KSC
codes for LaTeX2e
- manjutex
- Manju language support
- mnttex
- Assists in typing special Chinese characters
- uhc-gothic
- Fonts for the Korean language
- zwtex
-
Coptic:
Croatian:
- croatian
- Fonts for typesetting Croatian scripts
- hrhyph
- Hyphenation patterns for the Croatian language
Cyrillic:
- ascii-cyrillic
- A converter for 8-Bit Russian and Ukrainian text to the
Latin alphabet (7-Bit ASCII).
- bashkirian
- Bashkirian extension to OT2 fonts
- cmcyr
- Computer Modern fonts extended with Russian letters, in
MetaFont sources and ATM Compatible
- cmcyr-patch
- A set of Type 1 Cyrillic fonts
- cmcyralt
- Alternative Russian encoding support
- cmcyralt-ltx
- LaTeX support for the cmcyralt fonts
- cyrillic
- Support for Cyrillic fonts in LaTeX
- CyrTUG
- The CyrTUG distribution for
emtex
- lh
- The lh fonts for the `T2'/X2 encodings
- izhitsa
- Support for the old Russian font "Izhitsa"
- ot2cyr
- Macros to use the OT2 Cyrillic encoding
- rawprint
- Print raw Russian text
- wncyr
- The "original" cyrillic, whose encoding was
adopted by the LaTeX project as OT2
Czech and Slovak:
- czech
- Typeset Czech documents
- csfonts
- Czech/Slovak-tuned MetaFont Computer Modern fonts
- cslatex
- LaTeX support for Czech/Slovak typesetting
- csplain
- Plain TeX support for Czech/Slovak typesetting
- cspsfonts
- Czech and Slovak PostScript fonts
- cstex
- Support for Czech/Slovak languages
- czhyph2e
- A Perl script czhyph2e.pl by Werner Lemberg which converts
the Czech hyphenation pattern as distributed on the CTAN
network from the PC encoding into a form usable by LaTeX2e
with T1 fontencoding (DC fonts)
- slovak
- Typeset Slovak documents
Danish
- dk-bib
- Danish variants of standard BibTeX styles
Devangari:
- devanagari
- Frans Velthuis' preprocessor for Devanagari text, and fonts
and macros to use when typesetting the processed text
- devanagari-omega
- Typeset Devanagari with Omega
Dutch:
- beletter
- A small class for typesetting Belgium letters
- ntgclass
- Versions of the standard LaTeX article and report classes,
rewritten to reflect a more European design, by the Dutch TeX
Users Group
English
- engpron
- Provides macros which enable us to write the British or
America English pronunciation as one can find it in the
"English Pronouncing Dictionary" by Daniel Jones
- ukhyph
- Hyphenation patterns for British English
- ushyph
- Extended US hyphenation patterns
Epi-Olmec:
- epiolmec
- Typesetting the Epi-Olmec language used in Southern Middle
America until about 500 AD
Ethiopian:
- enthiop
- Ethiopian language support for the babel package, including
a collection of fonts and TeX macros for typesetting the
characters of the languages of Ethiopia, with fonts based on
EthTeX originally distributed by Abass B. Alamnehe
- enthiop-t1
- Type 1 versions of Amharic fonts from the
enthiop package
- ethtex
- Fonts and LaTeX support for typesetting Amharic
French:
- aeguill
- A package adding several kinds of guillemets (polish cmr,
cyrillic cmr, lasy and ec) to the
ae fonts. It is useful if
you are using the ae fonts to produce
PDF files, since the
additional guillemets exist in Type 1 versions
- beletter
- A small class for typesetting Belgium letters
- bib-fr
- French translation of classical BibTeX styles
- esieecv
- Curriculum vitae for French
- frenchle
- French option for Babel (also independently)
- frenchpro
- Professional typesetting of French documents (for Windows
and up to Mac OS 9)
- french-translations
- French translation project for documentation of LaTeX packages
- frhyph
- French hyphenation patterns
- lettre
- Letters and faxes in French
German:
- brief
- German letter style
- din1505
- Bibliography styles for German texts to work with
natbib
- dinat
- Bibliography style files intended for texts in german in
accordance with the german DIN 1505, parts 2 and 3
- dinbrief
- Implements a document layout for writing letters according
to the rules of DIN
- fribrief
- A LaTeX class for writing letters
- g-brief
- Serves for formatting formless letters in German or English
language
- german
- Support for traditional German typography
- germbib
- German variants of standard BibTeX styles
- germdoc
- Guide to german
- ngerman
- Supports the new German orthography, or Neue deutsche
Rechtschreibung
Greek:
For typesetting ancient Greek use the
babel package
with the option polutonikogreek.
See "Humanities" for more
references on the Humanities.
- betababel
- Provides a simple way to insert ancient greek texts with
diacritical characters into your document through the commonly
used Beta Code transliteration
- bgreek
- Implements a dialect of the Beta Code encoding (TLG and
Perseus Project) for typesetting classical Greek using Claudio
Beccari's Greek Fonts
- cbgreek
- MetaFont source files for a complete set of Greek fonts
- context-greek
- Typeset ancient (polytonic) Greek in ConTeXt
- cypriot
- Provides a Metafont version of a syllabic script which was
used on Cyprus for writing Greek between approximately the
tenth and third centuries BC; part of the
archaic fonts
- elmath
- Mathematics in Greek texts
- greek4cbc
- A Greek monumental font as used on a stele in Athens in
394BC
- greek6cbc
- This Greek font is typical of those used in the 6th century
BC
- hellas
- Typeset bibliographies which include Greek using
bibtex
- hyphenation-greek
- Hyphenation patterns for ancient and modern Greek
- kdgreek
- Greek fonts
- lgreek
- Macros for using Silvio Levy's Greek fonts
- macgreek
- Greek language support for the macintosh
- mtgreek
- Use italic and upright greek letters with mathtime
- upgreek
- Provides the upright Greek letters from the Euler or Adobe
Symbol fonts as additional math symbols, with proper scaling
in super- and subscripts
Gurmukhi:
- gurmukhi
- Gurmukhi (a Punjabi language) for TeX, including a converter
from us-ascii to Gurmukhi
Hebrew:
- arabtex
- Macros and fonts for typesetting Arabic and Hebrew
- cjhebrew
- Typesetting Hebrew
- Makor 2
- Typeset Hebrew with vowels or liturgical accents, Yiddish,
documents prepared using
arabtex Hebrew conventions,
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, and Old Hebrew with
omega
- pcfonts
- Support for Hebrew
Hungarian:
- huhyph
- Hyphenation patterns for the Hungarian language
Icelandic:
Indian:
- itrans
- The Indian Language Transliteration package
Inuktitut:
- oinuit
- A set of Lambda (omega LaTeX)
typesetting tools for the Inuktitut language
Italian:
Japanese:
See also CJK.
Korean:
See also CJK.
- hlatex
- Support for Korean documents written in Korean standard KSC
codes for LaTeX2e
- uhc-gothic
- Fonts for the Korean language
Latin:
- lahyph
- Hyphenation patterns for typesetting Latin, part of the
babel package
Malayam:
- malayalam
- Fonts for typesetting Malayalam, with a pre-processor
Manju:
Mongolian:
- montex
- Provides Mongolian support for LaTeX2e (now
Cyrillic, but soon also Classical
Mongolian)
Polish:
- antp
- Type 1 family of Polish traditional type Antykwa Torunska
- antt
- Type 1 family of Polish traditional type Antykwa Torunska
- anttvf
- Virtual fonts for PostScript Antykwa Torunska font
- cc-pl
- Polish extension of Computer Concrete fonts (MetaFont
sources)
- cc-plps
- Polish extension of Computer Concrete fonts in Type1 format
- gustlib
- Various small utility packages for typesetting in plain TeX,
with a Polish perspective
- mex
- An adaptation of Plain TeX and LaTeX209 formats to the
Polish language and to the Polish printing customs
- ogonek
- Support for Polish typography and the ogonek
- plfonts
- Polish extension to CM fonts
Portuguese:
- pthyphs
- Hyphenation patterns for Portuguese
Romanian:
- romaniantex
- A LaTeX2e package for type-setting Romanian in a
multi-lingual TeX environment
Russian:
See packages for typesetting
Cyrillic encodings, and fonts.
- eskdx
- A collection of LaTeX classes and packages to typeset
documents in accordance with russian standards for designers
Sanskrit:
- csx
- Computer Sanskrit(/Extended) coding support on MS-DOS
- sanskrit
- A font and pre-processor suitable for the production of
documents written in Sanskrit
Sinhala:
- sinhala
- Support for the sinhala language
Slovene:
Somali:
- osmanian
- Osmanian fonts by Alan Stanier for writing Somali
Spanish:
- catalan
- Catalan hyphenation patterns
- catalanbib
- Several Catalan bibliografic styles for
BibTeX
- eshyph
- Hyphenation patterns for Spanish (a work in progress)
- esindex
- Typset index entries in Spanish documents
- spanish
- Various TeX related files for typesetting documents written
in Spanish, including hyphenation and dictionaries
Swedish:
- sehyph
- Hyphenation patterns for Swedish
- swebib
- Swedish translation of standard BibTeX styles
- swetex
- Plain TeX support for writing Swedish
- slatex
- LaTeX support for writing Swedish
Tamil:
- adami
- Provides transliteration from Western-keyboard text to Tamil
script
- wntamil
- Tamil to TeX converter
Telugu:
- telugu
- Plain TeX, and LaTeX support for writing in Telugu
Tibetan:
- ctib4tex
- Tibetan for TeX and LATeX2e; no external preprocessor is
needed
- pecha
- Provides an environment for writing Tibetan on LaTeX2e in
the traditional Tibetan Pecha layout
- ttt
- A Tibetan Transcript Transliterator for LaTeX
Turkish:
- turkish
- Fonts and macros for Ottoman Turkish and Modern Turkish in
Roman letter transcription
Ukrainian:
A converter from cyrillic letters to ASCII is
ascii-cyrillic
See also packages for cyrillic encodings, and
fonts.
- ukrhyph
- Ukrainian hyphenation patterns
Vietnamese:
- tcvn
- A package for vietnamese TCVN encoding which is widely used
in MS-Windows applications
- vncmr
- A Vietnamese extension of the cmr fonts
- vntex
- Vietnamese LaTeX and Plain TeX support
Misc:
- accents
- Multiple accents with nice features concerning creation of
accents and placement of scripts
"Office" Applications
Those using (La)TeX in office may be interested in packages for
lawyers and economists.
Writing Letters, Faxes, Memos, and Newsletters:
The koma-script
bundle provides a letter class of its own called scrlttr2.
There are also packages for producing labels and for
addressing envelopes.
- akletter
- Extends LaTeX's usual letter class, providing support for
building your own letterhead and marking fold points for
window envelopes
- beletter
- A small class for typesetting Belgium letters
- bellmac
- Outline scheme for form letter production with Plain
- block
- A style file for use with the letter class that overwrites
the \opening and \closing macros so that letters can be styled
with the block letter style instead of the default
style. Thus, the return address, the closing, and the
signature appear flushed on the left margin
- brief
- German private letter class
- C.D.P. Bundle
- Business letters in the Italian style
- dinbrief
- German letter class implementing a document layout for
writing letters according to the rules of DIN
- dinbrief-gui
- GUI for LaTeX package dinbrief
- envlab
- Package for producing mailing envelopes and labels,
including barcodes and address formatting according to the US
Postal Service rules
- facsimile
- Provides a simple interface for creating a fax with LaTeX
- fax
- Document class for preparing faxes
- fribrief
- A LaTeX class for writing letters
- formlett
- Letters to multiple recipients
- g-brief
- Formless letters in German, or English
- gtex-letter
- A Gnome assistant (wizard/druid) to ease the writing of
LaTeX letters
- lettre
- Letters and faxes in French.
- myletter
- Another letter package
- newlfm
- Integrates the letter class with fancyhdr and geometry to
automatically make letterhead stationary. Useful for writing
letters, fax, and memos
- newsletr
- Macros to help create newsletters and newspapers
- postcards
- Facilitates mail merging of postcards (junkmail, US standard size)
- ticket
- Make labels, visting-cards, pins with LaTeX
Meeting protocols:
- assignment
- Typesetting homework or lab assignments
- minutes
- Package for writing minutes of meetings
- protocol
- Typeset meeting protocols
Fill-in Forms:
- blanks
- Macros for "fill in the blanks" forms
Keeping Lists of Addresses and Mail Merge:
The koma-script
bundle provides scraddr that goes with the scrlttr2
letter class for using address data in letters.
- adrconv
- A collection of BibTeX style files to turn an address
database stored in the .bib format into files suitable for
printing as address books or included into letter classes
- adrlist
- Using address lists in LaTeX
- csvtools
- Allows you to repeatedly perform a set of LaTeX commands on
data in each row of a comma separated variable (CSV) file
- delimtxt
- Read and parse text tables. Can be used for serial letters
and the like, making it easier to export the data file from
MS-Excel/MS-Word
- directory
- A package for LaTeX and BibTeX that facilitates the
construction, maintenance and exploitation of an address
book-like database
- formlett
- Letters to multiple recipients
- mailing
- Macros for mail merging
- postcards
- Facilitates mail merging of postcards (junkmail, US standard
size)
- serial
- Provides a wrapper to the (obsolete)
koma-script
letter class scrlettr for the generation of serial letters
- textmerg
- Merge text in TeX and LaTeX. Useful, for example, in mail merge
Calendars, Date and Time:
There are two more packages for wirking with the current date and
time. scrdate yields the name of current day of the week, and
scrtime yields the current time as a document is
processed. Both packages are part of the
koma-script bundle.
- advdate
- Provides macros which can add a specified number of days to
the current date (as specified in \today) and print
it. Intended for use, for example, in invoices payable within
14 days from today etc
- calendar
- Organizes date items in a format suitable for conference
schedules, itineraries, academic teaching timetables and the
like
- calxxxx
- Prints a card-size calendar for any year, AD or BC, with
Gregorian or Julian leap rules
- china2e
- A LaTeX package to produce Chinese calendar symbols of the
old Chinese lunisolar calendar
- clock
- Graphical and textual clocks for TeX and LaTeX
- dates
- Macros for parsing date strings
- datetime
- Change format of \today with commands for current time
- datenumber
- Convert a date into a number and vice versa
- dayofweek
- Calculate day of week, phase of moon
- daytime
- Print time of day
- evweek
- Provides a weekly calendar as part of the
calendar package
- isodate
- Tune the output format of the \today command
- kalender
- Style file for creating a calendar (in German)
- plcalendar
- Plain macros for making nice calendars
- termcal
- Print a term calendar for use in planning a class
- uhrzeit
- A variety of formats for printing time in German
- weekday
- Generate "day of week"
Money Currency:
There are some packges for making the
Euro currency symbol (€) work in LaTeX.
Writing Applications for a Job / CV:
There are no packages for writing an
application as a whole. So try to combine one of the following
packages for CVs with a package for letters
that suits your needs.
- CurVe
- A LaTeX2e class for making curriculum vitae
- currvita
- Package for typesetting a curriculum vitae
- cv
- A package for creating a curriculum vitae
- cvsty
- Yet another style for easy CV pagination
- esieecv
- Curriculum vit for French
- europecv
- An unofficial LaTeX implementation of the standard model for
curricula vitae as recommended by the European
Commission
- moderncv
- Modern curriculum vitae documentclass
- res
- Resume class for LaTeX2e
- vita
- This class provides necessary macros to prepare your
Curriculum Vitae or Resume
Business Cards, Labels and Envelopes:
- bizcard
- Typeset business cards
- envbig
- Printing addresses on envelopes
- envlab
- Facilates addressing envelopes or mailing labels, including
barcodes and address formatting according to the US Postal
Service rules
- flabels
- Pretty labels (optionally colored) for the back of files or
binders
- labels
- Print sheets of sticky labels
- stubs
- Create tear-off stubs at the bottom of a page, e.g. for
contact information on a notice
- ticket
- Provides an easy to handle interface to produce visiting
cards, labels for your files, stickers, pins and other stuff
for your office, conferences etc.
Creating Leaflets:
- booklet
- Aids for printing simple booklets
- faltblat
- A package for making leaflets (two sides at three columns each)
- leaflet
- Create small hand-outs that fit on a single sheet of paper
which is then folded twice
- newsletr
- Macros to help create newsletters and newspapers
- stubs
- Create tear-off stubs at the bottom of a page, e.g. for
contact information on a notice
- twoinone
- Print two pages on a single page (a4paper landscape)
- twoup
- Print two virtual pages on each physical page
- twoupltx
- Print two virtual pages on each physical page
Writing Invoices:
There is also
rechnung.sty
for writing invoices which is not available from CTAN although it is
rather popular among German-speaking users.
- advdate
- Provides macros which can add a specified number of days to
the current date (as specified in \today) and print
it. Intended for use, for example, in invoices payable within
14 days from today etc.
- dcolumn
- Align on the decimal point of numbers in tabulars
- invoice
- Generate invoices
Presentation Slides:
Michael Wiedmann provides a comprehensive
overview of tools
for making screen presentations, most of them working with LaTeX.
- arev
- Virtual fonts and macros for the Arev Sans font intended for
use in presentations
- beamer
- A LaTeX class for producing presentations and slides
- beamer-tut-pt
- An introduction to the Beamer class, in Portuguese
- elpres
- simple class for electronic presentations to be shown on
screen or a beamer derived from article.cls
- foilhtml
- Provides integration between
foiltex and latex2html
- foiltex
- A LaTeX2e class for overhead transparencies that can be used
with fancybox to place a
variety of borders around the slides
- ha-prosper
- Patches and improvements for the
prosper package, now
obsolete, as powerdot has
been developed
- ifmslide
- Produce printed slides with latex and online presentations
with pdflatex compatible with seminar
- pdfscreen
- An extension of the package to provide a
screen-based document design
- pdfslide
- Presentation slides using pdftex. helping the mix of
mathematical formulae with text and graphics which the present
day wysiwyg tools fail to accomplish
- powerdot
- a new presentation class for LaTeX that allows for the quick
and easy development of professional presentations
- ppower4
- A post processor for PDF presentations created by pdf(La)TeX
- prosper
- A LaTeX class for writing transparencies, written on top of
the seminar class;
ha-prosper supplies some
patches and improvements
- seminar
- Produce overhead slides (transparencies) with bells and
whistles. See also the
hc classes.
- slidenotes
- A class package for the easy production of a slide
collection with annotations
- slides
- A standard LaTeX2e class for the production of overhead
transparencies (foils), replacing the older SliTeX format
- slidenotes
- A class package for the easy production of a slide
collection with annotations; builds on the report style
- talk
- A LaTeX class for presentations
- tpslifonts
- A LaTeX package for configuring presentation fonts
- uwmslide
- Slides with a simple Power Point like appearance
Spreadsheets:
There is Calc2LaTeX
for converting OpenOffice spreadsheets to LaTeX tables.
- csvtools
- Allows you to repeatedly perform a set of LaTeX commands on
data in each row of a comma separated variable (CSV) file
- Excel-to-LaTeX
- Convert Excel spreadsheets to LaTeX tables (works with Excel
up to Excel 97)
- exceltex
- A LaTeX package combined with a helper program written in
Perl for getting data from Excel files into LaTeX
- xl2latex
- Convert Excel (97 and above) tables to LaTeX tabulars
Misc:
- wordlike
- Provides word-like settings for page margins, section
headings, and fonts
Databases
- dbprocess
- Process database output
- docarc
- Document Archive is a bibliographic database system (which
can also store document files) that runs over a network to
allow multiple users to access the same data
- LaTeXDB
- Integrates LaTeX and SQL databases
- SQLTeX
- A well documented perl script that serves as a preprocessor
to enable the use of SQL statements in LaTeX
Science
Note: There are some more packages for
working on your bibliography. Packages
specific to one subject are listed both
there and below.
Typesetting Theses and Papers for Journals:
Note: There are more
alternatice document classes you may use for
scientific work as well.
- aaai
- AAAI style
- AASTeX
- Styles for formatting submissions to journals published by
the American Astronomical Society
- abstbook
- A LaTeX2e class file for making "books of
abstracts", commonly used for conferences, based on
report class
- acmconf
- Association for Computing Machinery conference proceedings
- active-conf
- Class for typesetting ACTIVE conference papers
- adfathesis
- Australian Defence Force Academy thesis format
- afthesis
- LaTeX thesis/dissertation class for US Air Force Institute
Of Technology
- amsart
- A LaTeX document class for articles that is tailored to the
design of American Mathematical Society journals
- amsbook
- A LaTeX document class for books that is tailored to the
design of American Mathematical Society publications
- amsproc
- A LaTeX document class for conference proceedings that is
tailored to the design of American Mathematical Society
publications
- asaetr
- A class and BibTeX style for submissions to the Transactions
of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers
- bgteubner
- Class for producing books for the publisher Teubner
Verlag
- cea
- Produce papers for Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
- classicthesis
- A thesis style
- computational-complexity
- Class for the journal Computational Complexity
- courseoutline
- Prepare university course outlines
- coursepaper
- Prepare university course papers
- coverpage
- Automatic cover page creation for scientific papers with
BibTeX data and copyright notice
- development
- Bibtex style file for the journal Development
- ebsthesis
- Facilitates the production of camera-ready manuscripts in
conformance with the guidelines of Gabler Verlag and
typographical rules established by European Business School
- elsevier
- Preprint style for Elsevier Science journals
- harvmac
- Paul Ginsparg's Harvard macros for scientific articles
- hepthesis
- LaTeX class for typesetting masters and PhD theses
- jpsj
- Document Class for Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
- nrc
- Macros, and some documentation, for typesetting papers for
submission to journals published by the National Research
Council of Canada
- paper
- A class derived from article, tuned for producing papers for
journals introducing new layout options, and many more options
and new commands
- pitthesis
- Document class for University of Pittsburgh theses
- startex
- A TeX format designed to help students write short reports
and essays
- scientificpaper
- Format a scientific paper for journal publication
"..."
- stdpage
- Standard pages with n lines of at most m characters each
- thesis
- A class for producing a thesis based on the report class for
a more European and more flexible look
- toptesi
- A Bundle of files for typsetting (especially multilingual)
theses in Italy and in other countries
- uaclasses
- Typesetting theses and dissertations in the official format
required by the University of Arizona
- utorontothesis
- A LaTeX2e thesis class definition for University of Toronto
- ut-thesis
- University of Toronto thesis style
- uwthesis
- University of Washington thesis style
Typesetting Laboratory Journals:
- assignment
- Typesetting homework or lab assignments
- labbook
- Typeset laboratory journals that contain chronologically
ordered records about experiments based on
koma-script
Typesetting Physical Units:
- siunits
- Typeset physical units following the rules of the
International System of Units (SI).
- sistyle
- Package to typeset SI units, numbers and angles
- units
- Typeset units
- unitsdef
- Typesetting units in LaTeX2e
Typesetting Technical
Reference Manuals:
- limap
- Typeset maps and blocks according to the Information Mapping
method
- refman
- A document class for writing technical reference manuals
offering a wide left margin for notes to the reader, like some
of the manuals distributed by Adobe, available for articles
and reports
Mathematics:
Thanks to Morten Høgholm for advice on this section.
For typesetting arrays see also the packages for
tables, and for
formatting decimal columns.
There are some guides on using
LaTeX for Mathematics.
Calculating:
- advdate
- Provides macros which can add a specified number of days to
the current date (as specified in \today) and print
it. Intended for use, for example, in invoices payable within
14 days from today etc
- arrayjob
- Provides array data structures in (La)TeX
- binhex
- Convert numbers into binary, octal and hexadecimal
- brclc
- Support 16-bit (double) calculations in LaTeX
- calc
- Adds infix expressions to perform arithmetic in certain
LaTeX commands
- fltpoint
- The package provides simple floating point operations
- fp
- Provides an extensive collection of arithmetic operations
for fixed point real numbers of high precision
- realcalc
- Macros for real arithmetic calculations
- amsart
- A LaTeX document class for articles that is tailored to the
design of American Mathematical Society journals
- amsbook
- A LaTeX document class for books that is tailored to the
design of American Mathematical Society publications
- amsbsy
- Produce bold math symbols
- amslatex
- A collection of loosely related files that are distributed
together by the American Mathematical Society, hese files are
miscellaneous enhancements to LaTeX whose aim is superior
information structure of mathematical documents and superior
printed output
- amscd
- Part of the amslatex
distribution, this package adapts the commutative diagram
macros of AMS-TeX for use in LaTeX
- amscls
- AMS document class for LaTeX
- amsltx11
- Obsolete version of
AMS-LaTeX
for LaTeX 2.09
- amsmath
- the principal package in the
amslatex distribution
- amsopn
- Typeset mathematical operator names
- amsproc
- A LaTeX document class for conference proceedings that is
tailored to the design of American Mathematical Society
publications
- amsppt
- AMS-TeX article preprint document style
- amsppt1
- AMS-TeX v.2 compatibility for amsppt.sty v.1
- amsproc
- LaTeX document class for AMS conference proceedings
- amssym
- AMS symbol fonts for Plain TeX
- amstext
- Defines a \text macro, which makes it easy to incorporate
fragments of text inside a displayed equation or a sub or
superscript
- amsthm
- A LaTeX package that facilitates the kind of theorem setup
typically needed in American Mathematical Society publications
environments, and to tag the equations therein
- testmath
- Examples of the AMS-LaTeX package
Support for AMS-LaTeX:
- empheq
- Provides a visual markup extension to
amsmath. See also
mh
- gauss
- Provides configurable tools for producing row and
column operations on matrices a.k.a. Gaussian operations
- mathtools
- Mathematical tools to use with
amsmath; part of the
mh bundle
- mh
- A series of packages designed to enhance the appearance of
documents containing a lot of math
- ntheorem
- Enhanced theorem environment. See also
mh
- onlyamsmath
- Inhibits the usage of plain TeX and on demand of standard
LaTeX math environments which is useful for class writers who
want to force their clients to use the environments provided
by the amsmath package
- tex2ltx
- Useful for converting plain TeX (AMS) files into
AMS-LaTeX
and convert plain AMS-TeX bibliographic references into
BibTeX
The easy Family of Packages:
- easy
- A collection of "easy" to use macros
- easybmat
- A simple package for writing block matrices with equal
column widths or equal rows heights or both, with various
kinds of rules between rows and columns
- easyeqn
- A simple package for writing equations
- easymat
- A simple package for writing matrices
- easytable
- A simple package for writing tables
- easyvector
- Write vectors in a C-like fashion
Other Math Macros:
- accents
- Multiple accents with nice features concerning creation of
accents and placement of scripts
- bezos
- Tools for math accents; tensorial indexes; tools for easy
entry of Spanish index entries
- bfsymb
- Generate bold symbols in Plain TeX mathematics
- breqn
- Automatic line breaking of displayed equations
- cancel
- A package to draw diagonal lines and arrows with limits
through math formulas
- cases
- Define numcases: math cases with equation numbers. Also
defines subequation numbering.
- commath
- Mathematics typesetting support
- complexity
- Computational complexity class names
- deleq
- Flexible numbering of equations
- dmhgener
- Equation, figure (etc.) numbering and referencing
- dotseqn
- Flush left equations with dotted leaders to the numbers
- eqname
- Name tags for equations
- eqnarray
- Defines an equationarray environment, that allows more than
three columns, but otherwise behaves like LaTeX's eqnarray
environment
- esdiff
- Simplify typesetting of derivatives
- extarrows
- Extra Arrows beyond those provided in AMS math
- extpfeil
- Extensible arrows in mathematics
- hhtensor
- Provides commands for vectors, matrices, and tensors with
different styles
- mathcmd
- Provides a slightly modified version of the commands for
making integrals and sums
- mathenv
- Defines some often useful math-mode environments
- maybemath
- Make math bold or italic according to context
- mhequ
- Simplifies the creation of multi-column equation
- nath
- A LaTeX style to separate presentation and content in
mathematical typography
- one2many
- Helps to typeset mathematical index sets
- sobolev
- Provides commands which are useful when dealing with Hilbert
and Sobolev spaces
- tensind
- Typesets tensors with dots filling gaps and fine tuning of
index placement
- tensor
- Allows the user to set tensor-style super and
subscripts with offsets between successive indices
- vector
- Macros for more convenient representation of vectors in
LaTeX2e, both symbolically and as implicit or explicit
rows/columns of elements
Math Fonts:
PostScript math fonts are supported
by both the mathpazo package for Palatino, and the mathptmx package
for Times which are part of the psnfss
package. See the psnfss section for details.
- a0poster
- Provides fonts in sizes of 12pt up to 107pt and also makes
sure that in math formulas the symbols appear in the right
size
- amsfonts
- Augments the standard set normally distributed with TeX,
including: extra mathematical symbols; blackboard bold letters
(uppercase only)
- amsfonts-type1
- Type 1 fonts from the American Mathematical Society
- amssym
- AMS symbol fonts for Plain TeX
- amssymb
- AMS symbol fonts for LaTeX
- bbold
- A geometric sans serif blackboard bold font, for use in
mathematics
- begriff
- Defines maths mode commands for typesetting Frege's
Begriffschrift
- belleek
- Free replacement for basic MathTime fonts
- bm
- Access bold symbols in maths mode
- concmath
- Concrete Math fonts
fraktur letters; subscript sizes of
bold math italic and bold Greek letters; subscript sizes of large
symbols such as sum and product; added sizes of the
Computer Modern small caps font;
cyrillic fonts (from the University of
Washington); Euler math fonts
- dotlessi
- Provides dotless i's and j's for use in any math font
- dotlessj
- Generates a dot-less j
- dstroke
- Seriffed doublestroke font for typesetting the mathematical
symbols for the natural numbers (N), whole numbers (Z),
rational numbers (Q), real numbers (R) and complex numbers
(C) available both in MetaFont and Adobe Type 1 formats
- elmath
- Mathematics in Greek texts
- esint
- Extended set of integrals for Computer Modern
- esint-type1
- esint fonts in Type1 format
- euler
- Provides a setup for using the AMS Euler family of fonts for
math in LaTeX documents
- eulervm
- Euler virtual math fonts based on Euler and CM, compatible
with amsmath
- fourier - A full replacement for the Computer Modern fonts
- upgreek
- A package to provide the upright Greek letters from the
Euler or Adobe Symbol fonts as additional math symbols, with
proper scaling in super- and subscripts
Math Graphics:
- circle
- Provides circles in math mode that can be used for the
nextstep operator of temporal logic, in conjunction with \Box
and \Diamond (latexsym) or \square and \lozenge (amssymb)
- sseq
- Provides a new LaTeX environment for inline typesetting of
spectral sequence charts; it is built on top of
xypic
- venn
- Creating Venn diagrams with MetaPost
- xypic
- A package for typesetting a variety of graphs and diagrams
with TeX
Statistics:
- statex
- A package supporting statistical presentations
Physics:
- antiparticle
- Typeset an anti-particle in maths mode
- hepparticles
- Macros for typesetting high energy physics particle names
- isotope
- Typesetting isotopes
- jpsj
- Document Class for Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
- nrc
- Macros, and some documentation, for typesetting papers for
submission to journals published by the National Research
Council of Canada
- revtex
- Styles for various Physics Journals
- slashed
- Put a slash through characters. Useful for the Physicist's
`Feynman slashed character' notation
- texsis
- Plain TeX macros for Physicists
Astronomy:
- aastex
- American Astronomical Society format
- astro
- Astronomical (planetary) symbols
- astron
- BibTeX style for astronomical journals
- cmastro
- Font for planetary symbols
- emulateapj
- A LaTeX class (based on
revtex) to produce preprints
with the page layout similar to that of the Astrophysical
Journal
Aeronautics:
- aiaa
- Typeset American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
conference papers
- ar
- Provides MetaFont files and a LaTeX package for producing
and using the uppercase A/R ligature as used by scientists and
engineers in the field of aeronautics as the symbol for
"aspect ratio"
Chemistry:
See also Biology. --
Thanks to Noel O'Boyle for advice on this section.
- achemso
- LaTeX and BibTeX style for American Chemical Society
- bpchem
- Typeset chemical names, formulae, and numbering of chemical
compounds
- chem-journal
- Various BibTeX
formats for journals in Chemistry, including
Reviews in Computational Chemistry, Journal of Physical
Chemistry, Journal of Computational Chemistry, and Physical
Chemistry Chemical Physics
- chemarr
- Analogous to amsmath's \xrightarrow and \xleftarrow this
package provides a macro for a longer version of reaction
arrows with the possibility to put text above and below; it
requires AMS-LaTeX
- chemarrow
- Arrows for use in chemistry
- chemcompounds
- Simple consecutive numbering of chemical compounds
- chemcono
- Support for compound numbers in chemistry documents
- chemstruct
- Structural organic chemistry (also works with Plain TeX)
- chemsym
- Macros for typing chemical symbols
- chemtex
- A very early demonstration of the use of TeX for graphical
purposes in Structural Chemistry
- cryst
- MetaFont font for symmetry elements in crystallography
- isotope
- Typesetting isotopes
- mhchem
- Typeset chemical formulae, and equations as well as Risk and
Safety phrases
- ochem
- A perl script to translate chemical formulae and reaction
schemes into PostScript or LaTeX.
- ppchtex
- A separate module of the
context macro package for TeX that can
be used to typeset chemical formulas
- pst-labo
- Draw complex chemical objects with
pstricks
- r-und-s
- Chemical hazard codes in both German and English
- texshade
- Package for setting nucleotide and peptide alignments
- textopo
- Annotated membrane protein topology plots
- xymtex
- A set of packages for drawing a wide variety of chemical
structural formulas
Biology:
See also Chemistry.
- cbe
- Bibliography style for Council of Biology Editors format
- biocon
- LaTeX package for typesetting of biological species names
- development
- Bibtex style file for the journal Development
- dichokey
- LaTeX package for dichotomous identification keys (for
species identification)
- dnaseq
- Format DNA base sequences
- jtbnew
- BibTeX style for Journal of Theoretical Biology
- texshade
- Package for setting nucleotide and peptide alignments
- textopo
- Annotated membrane protein topology plots
Geophysics:
- aguplus
- Styles for American Geophysical Union
Electronics:
For drawing
circuit diagrams see also the
PS-Tricks package.
- circ
- Macros for typesetting circuit diagrams
- circuit-macros
- M4 Macros for Electric circuit diagrams
- timing
- Fonts and macro package for drawing timing diagrams
- MetaPost Examples
- Example pictures drawn with metapost
- metapost
- A tool based on MetaFont for producing precise technical
illustrations, creating scalable PostScript instead of bitmaps
Computer Science:
- ada
- A system for Structured Software Documentation in Ada
- alg
- Typesetting algorithms; lines are automatically numbered and
can be referenced, with easy indentation, and algorithms as
floats
- algorithm2e
- An environment for writing algorithms, defining an
algorithm as a floating object
- algorithmicx
- Provides an environment for describing algorithms
- algorithms
- Defines a floating algorithm environment
- apl
- Fonts for typesetting APL programs
- aplweb
- Literate programming in APL
- basix
- A BASIC interpreter written in TeX
- bitfield
- Draw bit field data structure diagrams
- bytefield
- Helps the user create illustrations for network protocol
specifications and anything else that utilizes fields of
data in order to show how the bits and bytes are laid
out in a packet or in memory
- c2cweb
- A utility to prettyprint C and C plus plus source files
using cweb
- c2latex
- Simple conversion of C programs to LaTeX
- c-pascal
- A TeX macro package for easy typesetting programs in C and
Pascal; program sources in C and Pascal can also be input
- clrscode
- Typesets pseudocode as in 'Introduction to Algorithms'
- cnoweb
- Simple "quality" printing of C sources
- consdiag
- A utility for OO programming documentation
- cursor
- Creates a simple L-shaped 'cursor' in a math environment to
mimic what one might see on a computer screen
- cweb
- A system for Structured Software Documentation in C
- cwebbin
- CWEB for ANSI-C/C++ compilers on UNIX/Linux, MS/Windows, and
Amiga
- cwebx
- A system for Structured Software Documentation in C
- dirtree
- Display trees in the style of MS Windows Explorer
- docmfp
- Extends the doc package to
cater for documenting non-LaTeX code, such as MetaFont or
MetaPost, or other programming
languages
- hexdump
- Reads an ASCII hexdump file and puts it formated into the
document
- highlight
- A program which converts source code to TeX and LaTeX with
syntax highlighting
- listing
- Produce formatted program listings
- listings
- Typeset programming code within LaTeX using different
styles, e.g., default is bold for keywords, italic for
comments and no special style for strings, including support
for hyperref
- method
- Typesetting of programming language method and variable
declarations; includes an option to typeset in French
- newalg
- Format algorithms like Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest
- program
- Typesetting programs and algorithms
- semantic
- Typesetting of notation of semantics and compilers; includes
T-diagrams, various derivation symbols and inference trees
- texlist
- Typeset program (or ASCII text file) listings; a C
program that generates LaTeX2e
- tinyc2l
- Pretty print C/C++/Java source code using LaTeX
Humanities:
For typesetting ancient Greek use the
babel package
with the option polutonikogreek.
For typesetting Latin you may also use the
babel package with the option
latin.
There are packages for typesetting
Poetry and Drama.
Bibliography:
See also the general section on bibliographies.
- bibarts
- A package to assist in making bibliographical lists common
in the arts
- jurabib
- bibtex databases for
German legal texts in the first place,
but also of interest to everyone else working in the humanities
- oxford
- A BibTeX style implementing the oxford style, based on
harvard
Critical Editions:
There are some packages for working on
footnotes and endnotes as well as for
numbering lines and paragraphs, and
multilingual support.
A summary of the edmac package in
comparison to ednotes, and
ledmac as well as links to
additional software helping in writing critical editions can be found
on Dominik Wujastik's
homepage.
- edmac
- A macro package for typesetting scholarly critical editions
- ednotes
- Typesetting scholarly critical editions with LaTeX
- ledmac
- Typesetting scholarly critical editions; a LaTeX port of the
plain TeX edmac macros
- ledpar
- An extension of ledmac
enabling parallel typesetting in columns or on facing
pages. See also parallel
- parallel
- Typesetting two languages side-by-side. See also ledpar
- parrun
- Typesetting two streams of text running parallel one above
the other
- poemscol
- A set of LaTeX macros for typesetting critical editions of
poetry
- vruler
- A package for adding a vertical numbering to the general
text so that the text can be properly referenced. The vertical
ruler can be scaled and moved freely
Typesetting Dictionaries:
- dictsym
- Type1 font and all files required to use it with LaTeX that
provides a number of symbols commonly used in dictionaries
- fwlw
- Extracts the first and last words of a page, together with
the first word of the next page, just before the page is
formed into the object to print.
- lexikon
- Implements commands to generate a two language dictionary
Misc:
- alnumsec
- Alphanumeric section numbering similar to
alphanum, but you may use
the standard LaTeX sectioning commands
- alphanum
- Permits alphanumeric section numbering
- cbcoptic
- Coptic fonts and LaTeX macros for usage and for philology
- teubner
- Philological typesetting
Psychology:
- apa
- A LaTeX class to format text according to the American
Psychological Association Publication Manual (4th ed.)
specifications for manuscripts or to the APA journal look
- apacite
- A BibTeX style which
closely follows the APA style citation, claiming to provide
the closest match
- apalike
- APA-like citations
- apasoft
- A more conforming apa-like style for
BibTeX
- bbs
- Bibliography style for Behavioral and Brain Sciences derived
from apalike.bst, adopting
further features from astron.bst
- mslapa
- LaTeX and BibTeX style
files for a respectably close approximation to APA citation
and reference style
- newapa
- Another APA citation mechanism
- theapa
- APA Reference Citation for LaTeX, somehow related to
newapa
Law:
Lawyers may be interested in using (La)TeX in office.
- advdate
- Provides macros which can add a specified number of days to
the current date (as specified in \today) and print
it. Intended for use, for example, in invoices payable within
14 days from today etc
- alnumsec
- Alphanumeric section numbering similar to
alphanum, but you may use
the standard LaTeX sectioning commands
- alphanum
- Permits alphanumeric section numbering as part of the
jura package
- camel
- Comprehensive bibliography manager, especially for
anglo-saxon legal texts
- jura
- Implements the standard layout for German term papers in law
- juraabbrev
- Handle abbreviations for typesetting (German) juridical
documents
- jurabib
- BibTeX databases for
German legal texts in the first place, but also of interest to
everyone else working in the humanities
- juramisc
- A package for writing court sentences, legal opinions, and
dissertations, so far for German lawyers only
- jurarsp
- A BibTeX style for quoting court decisions, and
official papers as required in German legal texts
- lextex
- LeXTeX is a collection of macros intended to enable
lawyers, and in particular Barristers, to format their work
using Plain TeX
- ratex
- A bundle of files intended for use by German lawyers
Theology:
Economics:
Economists may be interested in using (La)TeX in
office, especially in packages for writing
invoices.
- ebsthesis
- Facilitates the production of camera-ready manuscripts in
conformance with the guidelines of Gabler Verlag and
typographical rules established by European Business School
- econometrica
- BibTeX support for Econometrica
- economic
- BibTeX support for submitting to Economics journals
- ecta
- Bibliography style file for submission to Econometrica
Phonetics:
- ipa
- Using the WSU International Phonetic Alphabet
- phonetic
- MetaFont Phonetic fonts, based on Computer Modern
- tipa
- Fonts and macros for IPA phonetics characters
- wsuipa
- Style for using International Phonetic Alphabet fonts
- wsuipa2tipa
- A filter that translates an old LaTeX document, replacing
all wsuipa font commands
with tipa font commands
Linguistics:
- arcs
- Draw arcs over and under text
- covington
- Numerous minor LaTeX enhancements for linguistics, including
multiple accents on the same letter, interline glosses
(word-by-word translations), Discourse Representation
Structures, and example numbering
- dictsym
- Type1 font and all files required to use it with LaTeX that
provides a number of symbols commonly used in dictionaries
- ecltree
- The package recursively draws trees, using the
epic and
eepic packages
- engpron
- Provides macros which enable us to write the British or
America English pronunciation as one can find it in the
"English Pronouncing Dictionary" by Daniel Jones
- lingtrees
- Linguistics trees preprocessor and macros
- linguex
- Format linguists' examples
- pst-jftree
- Drawing trees for use in linguistic analysis with
pstricks
- pst-node
- Draw connections using pstricks
- pst-tree
- Drawing trees using pstricks
- rrgtrees
- Linguistic tree diagrams for Role and Reference Grammar
(RRG) with LaTeX
- xytree
- Drawing linguistic syntactic trees
Including Graphics
See also the packages for including
floats, and for adding
colour and shading.
We also list guides on including
graphics.
- a2ping
- A UNIX command line utility written in Perl that converts
many raster image and vector graphics formats to EPS or PDF
and other page description formats
- addtex2eps
- Use LaTeX syntax on EPS figures, within Mathematica
- bophook
- Using the \AtBeginPage hook, you can add material in the
background of a page
- degrade
- A LaTeX package that degrades JPEG images on the fly to
decrease the size of the resulting PostScript or PDF file
- dottex
- Use dot code from
graphviz in LaTeX
- epsfig
- Including Encapsulated PostScript in LaTeX documents, now
superseded by the LaTeX2e
graphics package
- eso-pic
- A package to add picture commands (or backgrounds) to every
page. See also wallpaper.
- graphics
- The primary LaTeX package for the support of the inclusion
of graphics generally produced with other tools
- graphicx
- Better support for graphics, builds upon the
graphics package
- grfguide
- Guide to using graphics in LaTeX, including documentation on
various packages including
color and
graphicx
- MiniPlot
- A package for easy figure arrangement
- hilowres
- Support high and low resolution versions of same picture
- picinpar
- Insert pictures into paragraphs
- picins
- Insert pictures into paragraphs (appears to be better than
picinpar)
- photo
- A float environment for including photographs
- rotating
- A package built on the standard LaTeX
graphics package to
perform all the different sorts of rotation one might like
- wallpaper
- Files to add wallpapers (background images) to LaTeX
documents, using eso-pic,
but providing simple commands to include effects such as
titling.
Drawing Graph Paper and Grids
- graphpap
- Basic package for producing graph paper
- typogrid
- Produces a typographic grid on every page of the document,
useful to get the horizontal measures (distances etc.) into
good values, may be found at
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/typogrid
Drawing Diagrams and Charts
Arrow Theoretic Diagrams:
- arrow
- Eplain macros for arrow theoretic diagrams
- diagxy
- Draw commutative diagrams
Barcharts:
- bar
- Provides the barenv environment for bar charts
- bardiag
- LaTeX package for drawing bar diagrams
- barkom
- Bar charts in LaTeX
Bezier Curves
- bez123
- Support for Bezier curves
Bridge Diagrams:
- bridge
- Macros for typesetting bridge diagrams
Cartesian Coordinate Systems:
- coordsys
- Provides commands for typesetting number lines (coordinate
axes), coordinate systems and grids in the LaTeX picture
environment
Drawing Circles:
- circle
- Provides circles in math mode that can be used for the
nextstep operator of temporal logic, in conjunction with \Box
and \Diamond (latexsym) or \square and \lozenge (amssymb)
Clocks:
- clock
- Graphical and textual clocks for TeX and LaTeX
Commutative Diagrams:
- amscd
- Part of the AMS-LaTeX
distribution, this package adapts the commutative diagram
macros of AMS-TeX for use in LaTeX
- DCpic
- A package for typesetting Commutative Diagrams within a
LaTeX and TeX documents
- taylor
- Diagram macros by Paul Taylor
Computer Keyboards:
- keystroke
- A LaTeX package which provides macros for the graphical
representation of the keys on a computer keyboard
Drawing Dice
- dice
- A metafont font that can produce die faces in 2D or with
various 3D effects
- epsdice
- A scalable dice font
Electric Circuit Diagrams:
See also the electronics
section and the PS-Tricks package.
- circ
- Macros for typesetting circuit diagrams
- circuit-macros
- A set of macros for drawing high-quality electric circuits
containing fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, and
basic logic gates to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar
documents
Feynman Diagrams:
- axodraw
- Feynman diagrams in a LaTeX document
- feyn
- A Metafont for Feynman diagrams
- feynmf
- Macros and fonts for creating Feynman (and other) diagrams
Flow Charts:
- flow
- Draw flow diagrams in picture mode
Histograms:
- histogr
- Draw histograms with the LaTeX picture environment
Karnaugh-Maps, and Veitch-Charts:
- karnaugh
- Macros intended for typesetting Karnaugh-Maps and
Veitch-Charts in a simple and user-friendly way
Logic Diagrams:
- logic
- A MetaFont font for drawing logic diagrams
Nassi-Schneidermann Diagrams:
Pict2e:
Pictex:
- pictex
- Picture drawing macros for TeX and LaTeX
- pictex2
- Adds relative coords and rules for dots in plots to standard
PiCTeX
Postscript Macros for Drawing:
- pstricks
- PostScript macros for color, graphics, pie charts, rotation,
trees and overlays, supplying many special features
Syntax Diagrams:
- rail
- A C program and LaTeX package to draw syntax diagrams
specified in EBNF
- semantic
- Eases the typesetting of notation of semantics and
compilers. Includes T-diagrams, various derivation symbols and
inference trees
- syngen
- A tool for generating syntax diagrams from BNF\@
- syntax-mdw
- Typeset syntax descriptions
- syntax2
- Creation of syntax-diagrams
Timing Diagrams:
- timing
- Fonts and macro package for drawing timing diagrams
Tools:
- Array Maker
- A program for making latex and xypic arrays
- gnuplot
- General purpose plotting program for generating almost any
type of chart you wish and save it in LaTeX format or as EPS
(or in any of a dozen other formats)
Tree Figures:
- dirtree
- Display trees in the style of MS Windows Explorer
- ecltree
- The package recursively draws trees, using the
epic and
eepic packages
- emtrees
- Draw labelled trees, using
emTeX \specials
- eppstein-trees
- Tree macros that draw horizontally, proceeding from a root
at the left of the page
- lingtrees
- Linguistics trees preprocessor and macros
- pst-jftree
- Drawing trees for use in linguistic analysis with
pstricks
- pst-node
- Draw connections using pstricks
- pst-tree
- Drawing trees using pstricks
- rrgtrees
- Linguistic tree diagrams for Role and Reference Grammar
(RRG) with LaTeX
- xytree
- Drawing linguistic syntactic trees
Vector Arrows:
- esvect
- Write vectors using an arrow which is different to the
Computer Modern one
Misc:
- blockdraw_mp
- Block diagrams and bond graphs, with MetaPost
- borceux
- Diagram macros by Francois Borceux
- curves
- Curves for LaTeX picture environment
- dashbox
- Draw dashed boxes
- dashrule
- Draw dashed rules
- dratex
- General drawing macros
- ebezier
- Device independent enhancement of the picture environment
- epic
- A package enhancing LaTeX's picture mode
- eepic
- Some useful extensions to the
epic package
- epix
- A collection of batch-oriented utilities for Unix-like
systems for creating mathematically accurate, camera quality
plots and line figures
- expressg
- A MetaPost package providing facilities to assist in drawing
diagrams that consist of boxes, lines, and
annotations. Particular support is provided for creating
EXPRESS-G diagrams
- eukleides
- A geometry drawing system to be used with
pstricks; EPS output also
can be generated
- kuvio
- Drawing macros and fonts for diagrams
- m-pictex
- Solves the `out of dimen' problem that somethimes occours
when using PiCTeX (especially together with LaTeX)
- mdwtools
- Miscellaneous tools by Mark Wooding
- pb-diagram
- A diagram package using LAMSTeX or Xy-pic fonts
- xypic
- A package for typesetting a variety of graphs and diagrams
with TeX
Adding some Colour and Shading
There are more packages for
adding some colour to tables.
- backgrnd
- Mark text with grey background or change bar in plain TeX
- changebar
- Generate changebars in LaTeX documents
- color
- Allows text and page background colors to be set
- colors
- Colour support for LaTeX 2.09
- colorinfo
- Retrieve color model and values for defined colors
- colorsep
- Support for colour separation when using
dvips
- colortex
- Colour facilities for use with TeX
- contour
- Generates a colored contour around a given text in order to
enable printing text over a background without the need of a
color box around the text
- pstricks
- PostScript macros for color, graphics, pie charts, rotation,
trees and overlays, supplying many special features
- shadethm
- Package to produce shaded boxes, requiring the
color package
- shading
- Putting text on a shaded background. requires a PostScript
printer and dvi-file converter
- shadow
- Shadows
- xcolor
- Provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of
color tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors;
allows to select a document-wide target color model and offers
complete tools for conversion between eight color models
Typesetting Exam Scripts, Quizzes, Flashcards, and Questionnaires
- answers
- Styles for setting questions (or exercises) and answers
- anufinalexam
- This LaTeX document shell is created for the standard
formatting of final exams in The Australian National
University
- ecards
- Enables you to create a series of electronic (flash) cards
- exam
- Package for typesetting exam scripts
- examdesign
- LaTeX class for typesetting exams
- exams
- Exam questions can be multiple choice or free form
long/short answer questions. Options include the typesetting
of the exam itself, an exam showing all the answers and a
collection of questions and answers. Questions can be
parameterized. Use of a random generator provides for
automatic shuffling of multiple choice items
- exercise
- Typeset exercises, problems, etc. and their answers
- exerquiz
- Environments for defining exercises and quizzes. The quizzes
are graded and optionally corrected by JavaScript.
- flashcard
- Cards with a question on one side and the answer on the
other
- probsoln
- Generates problem sheets and their solution sheets
- qcm
- A LaTeX2e class for making multiple choices questionnaires
Music
- abc
- Support ABC music notation in LaTeX
- abc2mtex
- Notate tunes stored in an ascii format (abc notation)
- byzfonts
- Byzantine Music Font
- concprog
- A class which provides the necessary macros to prepare a
(classical) concert programme
- gchords
- A LaTeX package for typesetting of guitar chord diagrams,
including options for chord names, finger numbers and
typesetting above lyrics
- musicref
- Reference page for musictex
- musictex
- Typesetting music with TeX
- musixtex
- Extended MusicTeX, with better slurs
- songbook
- Package for typesetting song lyrics
- underbracket
- Draw brackets to underline (song) text
Poetry and Drama
There are some more packages for those interested in
the Humanities, including work on
critical editions.
- dialogue
- Quote short scripted dialogue in LaTeX
- drama
- Macros for typesetting a basic production-style stage script
- dramatist
- A package for typesetting drama both in verse and in prose
- edmac
- Typesetting scholarly critical editions
- ledmac
- A macro package for typesetting scholarly critical editions
- play
- Typesetting of plays, including options for line numbering
- poemscol
- A set of LaTeX macros for typesetting critical editions of
poetry
- plari
- A document class for typesetting stageplay scripts
- sides
- A class for typesetting stage plays, based on the
plari class
- stage
- A LaTeX class for creating plays of any length in a standard
manuscript format for production and submission
- verse
- Aids for typesetting simple verse
- xmlplay
- An xmltex package for typsetting the plays of Shakespeare,
as marked up by Jon Bosak
Cooking Recipes
Documenting Games
Backgammon:
- backgammon
- Typesetting backgammon boards
- bg
- Annotate backgammon matches and positions
Bridge:
- bridge-pln
- Plain TeX macros for writing about bridge
Chess:
- bdfchess
- Typeset correspondence chess games
- cchess
- Typesetting Chinese Chess board diagrams
- cheq
- Adobe chess font
- chessboard
- Print chess boards
- chessfss
- A package to handle chess fonts that uses NFSS
- chess
- Fonts for typesetting chess boards
- skak
- Typeset chess games using PGN and show diagrams of the
current board in the document
- texmate
- Comprehensive chess annotation in LaTeX
Go:
- go
- Fonts and macros for typesetting go games
- igo
- Fonts and macro to typeset Go diagrams
Othello:
- othello
- Create othello boards in LaTeX
Misc:
- bakoma-games
- Includes popular macro packages described in chapters 7
(Preparing music scores: MusiXTeX) and 8 (Playing games:
Chess, Xiangqi - Chinese Chess, Go, Backgammon, Bridge,
Crosswords) of the "LaTeX graphics Companion"
- egameps
- LaTeX style for typesetting extensive games with
pstricks
Crossword Puzzles
- crossword
- An extended crossword puzzle package
- crosswrd
- Brian Hamilton Kelly's crosswrd package updated to run with
LaTeX2e
- crw
- Crossword macros for Plain TeX
CD and MC Covers
- cd
- Typeset CD covers
- cdcover
- Typeset CD covers
- cdlabeler
- Take user text and typeset it to fit a CD label
- mceinleger
- Creating MC-covers on your own, requiring the
rotating package
Support for the Blind
Using different character sets
- codepage
- Support for variant code pages
- inputenc
- Control input encoding
- unicode
- Map unicode to LaTeX macros and use UTF-8 input encoding
- enctex
- A TeX extension that translates input on its way into TeX
- u8tex
- Emacs Mule facility to input Unicode characters in TeX
notation
Developing and Documenting LaTeX Packages
- afterpage
- Implements a command that causes the commands specified in
its argument to be expanded after the curent page is output
- at
- A package to remove a lot of tedious typing that ends up in
LaTeX documents by expanding the number of short command names
available. The new command names begin with the "@"
character, rather than the conventional backslash, so you can
tell them apart
- blindtext
- Provides `blind', or dummy text for testing purposes,
similar to lipsum
- bophook
- Using the \AtBeginPage hook, you can add material in the
background of a page
- checkend
- Extend error messages about improperly closed environments
- classlist
- Record classes used in a document
- clefval
- Key/value support with a hash
- clsguide
- Documentation of commands (other than font-handling
commands) that are useful when writing a LaTeX class or
package
- cmdtrack
- Checking whether a command defined in a document preamble is
actually used somewhere in the document
- compsci
- A LaTeX package useful whenever writing about programming,
but especially when writing about TeX
- dateiliste
- Extensions of the \listfiles concept
- default
- Provide default parameters for TeX macros
- defstring
- Define macros as verbatim macros
- de-macro
- A Python script that helps removing LaTeX macros from a
document
- dialogl
- Gathers together a bunch of code and examples about how to
write macros to carry on a dialogue with the user
- doafter
- Provides a command that allows you to execute a single token
after a TeX group
- doc
- Contains the definitions that are necessary to format the
documentation of package files (Literate LaTeX) which
incorporate both the documentation and the code
- docstrip
- Makes a package documentation file smaller by removing
comments and other sections of the document conditionally
- everyshi
- Introduces a new hook for taking action at every \shipout
command
- How to Package Your LaTeX Package
- Tutorial on writing .dtx and .ins files
- everysel
- Provides hooks whose arguments are executed just after LaTeX
has loaded a new font be means of \selectfont
- everyshi
- Introduces a new hook for taking action at every \shipout
- excludeonly
- Prevent files being \include-ed
- export
- Import and export values of LaTeX registers
- frankenbundle
- Develop and distribute groups of LaTeX packages and classes
and BibTeX bibstyles
- ifmtarg
- If-then-else command for processing potentially empty
arguments
- ifthen
- Conditionals in LaTeX2e documents (if – then –
else etc.)
- keyval
- Process 'key=value' schemes
- lipsum
- Provides `lorem ipsum' dummy text, similar to
blindtext
- makedtx
- Perl script to help generate dtx and ins files from seperate
files
- makecmds
- The new \makecommand, \makeenvironment, and
\provideenvironment commands always (re)define a command, or
environment
- maybeload
- Prevent reloading of files
- moredefs
- LaTeX defining, expansion, and debugging commands
- processkv
- Process key-value pairs
- pst-xkey
- Key-value syntax for
pstricks packages
- stdclsdv
- Provide sectioning information for package writers
- redefine
- Conditional macro, etc., definitions
- suffix
- Enables you to define and maintain command variants like
\macro*
- texpack
- Scripts to create documented LaTeX style, class files and
docs in a Unix environment
- xkeyval
- Extension of the keyval
package
CWEB
- cweb
- A system for Structured Software Documentation (also known
as Literate Programming) in the programming language C
- cweb-latex
- A LaTeX version of cweb
Support for Plain TeX
- amssym
- AMS symbol fonts for Plain TeX
- automagic
- Automagic numbering in Plain TeX
- autopict
- The LaTeX picture mode, for use with Plain TeX
- autotoc
- Table of contents in Plain TeX
- backgrnd
- Mark text with grey background or change bar in plain TeX
- base
- Definitive source of Plain TeX on CTAN
- bigtable
- Multi-page tables in Plain TeX
- bellmac
- Outline scheme for form letter production with Plain
- bfsymb
- Generate bold symbols in Plain TeX mathematics
- bibplain
- Simple macros for using BibTeX with Plain TeX
- bnf-plain
- Plain TeX macros for BNF grammars
- border
- Draw a black border around a Plain TeX page
- bridge-pln
- Plain TeX macros for writing about bridge
- btable
- Bordered tables in plain TeX
- capparmode
- Typeset paragraphs with the first letter of the paragraph in
a large font with the first few lines of the paragraph
indented to make room for this first large letter with Plain
TeX, very much like
- crw
- Crossword macros for Plain TeX
- csname-doc
- A list of plain TeX control sequence names described in the
TeXbook
- default
- Provide default parameters for TeX macros
- epsf
- The original graphics inclusion macros for use with dvips;
still widely used by Plain TeX users
lettrine for LaTeX
- doublecol
- Double-column page macros for Plain TeX
- chbar
- Change bar marks in Plain TeX
- chemstruct
- Structural organic chemistry (also works with Plain TeX)
- comment-pln
- Comment macros for Plain TeX
- cropmark-pu
- Cropmark macros for Plain TeX
- csplain
- Plain TeX support for Czech/Slovak typesetting
- gustlib
- Various small utility packages for typesetting in plain TeX,
with a Polish perspective
- ledmac
- Typesetting scholarly critical editions; a LaTeX port of the
plain TeX edmac macros
- lextex
- LeXTeX is a collection of macros intended to enable
lawyers, and in particular Barristers, to format their work
using Plain TeX
- mex
- An adaptation of Plain TeX and LaTeX209 formats to the
Polish language and to the Polish printing customs
- quotes
- Translates plain text input into English quotes
"..."
- swetex
- Plain TeX support for writing Swedish
- tex2ltx
- Useful for converting plain TeX (AMS) files into AMS-LaTeX
and convert plain AMS-TeX bibliographic references into
BibTeX
- texsis
- Plain TeX macros for Physicists
- vrb
- Verbatim macros via plain TeX
Handling DVI files
- bib2dvi
- A Unix system shell script that uses the AWK text processor
for generating DVI files from bibliography files
- catdvi
- A DVI to plain text translator capable of generating ASCII,
Latin-1 and UTF-8 (Unicode) output
- dtl
- Tools to dis-assemble and re-assemble DVI files
- dvgtk
- Tektronix 401x DVI previewer
- dvi2bitmap
- Utility to convert TeX DVI files directly to bitmaps
- dvi2tty
- A DVI driver to produce an ASCII representation of the
document
- dvichk
- List the page numbers in a DVI file
- dviconcat
- Concatenates dvi files
- dvicopy
- Copy and concatenate DVI files
- dvii
- Extract information from a DVI file
- dviljk
- A dvi driver for the LaserJet printers
- dviout
- TeX previewer and printer driver for MS-Windows
- dvipaste
- DVI manipulation
- dvipng
- A fast DVI to PNG/GIF converter
- dvisvgm
- Converts DVI files to Scalable Vector Graphics format (SVG)
- dvitype
- Type out the content of a DVI file
- dviwin
- A screen and printer driver for TeX DVI files under Windows
3.1 and Windows NT
- dvistd
- A standard for DVI drivers
- javadvi
- A DVI viewer and printer coded in Java
- mdvi
- A previewer for DVI files
- version
- Add version number to DVI file
- windvi
- A port of xdvi to Windows
for previewing DVI files
- xdvi
- A dvi previewer for the X Window System
(La)TeX Distributions
The TeX User Groups'
TeX Collection includes
texlive for Unices, and for MS
Windows, as well as
MacTeX for the Macintosh.
Windows users may also refer to
MikTeX, or
ProTeXt, the latter being a more
comprehensive distribution that is easy to install, including a number
of additional applications.
- base
- Definitive source of Plain TeX on CTAN
- latex
- LaTeX is a (and probably the most) popular macro package for
TeX
- latex209
- The pre-1993 LaTeX, now no longer supported
Unices::
- tetex
- A comprehensive distribution of TeX, LaTeX and family,
particulalry designed to be very easy to install on *ix
platforms, included in
texlive
- texlive
- A CD-ROM distribution of TeX, LaTeX, etc, with precompiled
binaries for many systems, based on
tetex and
miktex
- VTeX/Free
- TeX system and PDF support for Linux and OS/2
- web2c
- The "standard" source C version of the TeX sysmtem
DOS:
- emtex
- A TeX system for MS-DOS
OS/2:
- VTeX/Free
- TeX system and PDF support for Linux and OS/2
Windows:
- bakoma
- A Comprehensive TeX system for MS-Windows for preparing
electronic documents
- bakoma-fonts
- Computer Modern and AMS fonts in PostScript Type1 form
- bakoma-games
- BaKoMa modules for music and games
- emtexgi
- A MS-Windows interface to emTeX
- miktex
- A distribution of TeX and friends for MS-Windows95 and
MS-Windows-NT. Features include easy installation and
configuration, and full TeX and LaTeX support
- protext
- A miktex-based TeX
installation for MS-Windows
- texlive
- A CD-ROM distribution of TeX, LaTeX, etc, with precompiled
binaries for many systems, based on
tetex and
miktex
Macintosh:
Gary L. Gray and Joseph C. Slater have compiled a
comprehensive site for
the Macintosh TeX community.
- cmactex
- This port of TeX for the Macintosh includes
Omega and
pdfTeX.
- directtex
- A complete TeX distribution for the Macintosh
- epsfview
- Mac AppleScript tool for viewing figures generated with
MetaPost
- macbibtex
- A port of
BibTeX which is distributed
with OzTeX for the Macintosh
OS
- MacTeX
- The
TeX-live Mac distribution,
including
XeTeX, TeXShop,
i-installer, and
Excalibur
- oztex
- TeX for the Macintosh
- oztex-german
- German version of oztex
- tetex
- A comprehensive distribution of TeX, LaTeX and family,
particulalry designed to be very easy to install on *ix
platforms, included in
texlive that also runs on
Mac OS X platforms
Misc:
- amiweb2c
- An Amiga port of the complete UNIX-TeX system
- diagnose
- Provides macros to assist evaluation of the capabilities of
a TeX installation
- eqmlite
- TeX system and PDF support for Linux and OS/2
- etex
- An extended version of TeX, from the NTS project
LaTeX 3
- expl3
- Experimental packages demonstrating a possible LaTeX3
programming convention
ConTeXt
ConTeXt is another macro package for using TeX, so it
supplies an alternative to LaTeX. The
ConTeXt project has a rather lively
mailing list.
For those speaking German there is a comprehensive
paper
by Günter Partosch summarising his talk on ConTeXt vs. LaTeX held
at a Dante meeting in 2003.
Omega
- aleph
- An development of omega
- antomega
- Alternative language support for omega/ lambda
- devanagari-omega
- Typeset Devanagari with Omega
- omega
- Still experimental software, Omega is intended for
multilingual typesetting. It uses unicode, and has additional
primitives for (among other things) bidirectional typesetting
- omegabase
- Basic support files for Omega
- omegafonts
- Omega fonts
Editors
See also LyX.
- alpha
- Editor for the Macintosh with good TeX support
- auctex
- Provides an excellent environment for TeX/LaTeX document
production
- brief_t
- LaTeX support for the brief editor
- eddi4tex
- Editor and shell for DOS and OS/2
- epmtfe
- A TeX front end for OS/2
- et
- A program to edit TeX files in a semi-WYSIWYG fashion on
MS-DOS based systems
- kile
- A user-friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for KDE
- LaTable
- A near-WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX tables
- lated
- A graphical editor for drawings in the LaTeX ``picture''
environment running under MS-DOS and MS-Windows
- meta-mode
- A GNU Emacs Lisp package that implements a major mode for
editing MetaFont or MetaPost sources
- MPEdit
- MetaPost text editor for Win32
- nedit-latex-extensions
- The NEdit LaTeX-Mode
- ntemacs
- A distribution of Emacs for MS-Windows32 machines
- texed
- A TeX shell for OS/2, FSS-TeXEdit provides an easy interface
for LaTeX2e, dvips, GhostScript and ispell
- texniccenter
- An integrated development environment (IDE) for developing
LaTeX documents on Windows
- texshell32
- A free TeXShell for MS-Windows
- u8tex
- Emacs Mule facility to input Unicode characters in TeX
notation
- winedt
- A full-featured text editor and Shell for MS-Windows
allowing the editting of large, multiple, text files in the
usual MS-Windows way
- winshell
- A MS-Windows32 user interface for TeX
MicroIMP
- MicroIMP
- Unlike lyx which pursues a
"what-you-see-is-what-you-mean" approach
MicroIMP is a true
"what-you-see-is-what-you-get" word
processor based on a LaTeX system by Micropress Inc.
Previewers and Plugins
- acroread
- A tool from Adobe for reading Adobe PDF
files available for a variety of architectures
- autoview
- While you are editing your file.tex, autoview will (run in a
separate emacs and) continually, intelligently, and
automatically keep processing your latex file, generate a .ps
file and gv (view) the file for you
- dvgtk
- Tektronix 401x DVI previewer
- dviout
- TeX previewer and printer driver for MS-Windows
- dviwin
- A screen and printer driver for TeX DVI files under Windows
3.1 and Windows NT
- ghostscript-afpl
- Freely available PostScript interpreter available for many
platforms
- ghostscript-gpl
- Freely distributable version of the
AFPL ghostscript
interpreter available for many platforms.
- gsview
- A graphical interface for ghostscript under MS-Windows or
OS/2
- javadvi
- A DVI viewer and printer coded in Java
- mdvi
- A previewer for DVI files
- ps_view
- A PostScript preamble providing an interactive environement
for fast previewing of PostScript documents with
ghostscript
- techexplorer
- Netscape Plugin for viewing TeX and LaTeX sources available
for most platforms
- windvi
- A port of xdvi to Windows
for previewing DVI files
- xdvi
- A dvi previewer for the X Window System
- xpdf
- Previewing and manipulating upon PDF files on most platforms
available
Spelling Checker
- amspell
- A spell checker for plain ASCII files, with some special
features for dealing with TeX files for DOS systems
- aspell
- GNU Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker designed
to eventually replace
ispell
- check
- The checker provides syntax checking and automatic
labelling, together with some support for German documents
- chktex
- Finds typographic errors in LaTeX
- excalibur
- A spelling checker for the Macintosh that is also LaTeX
aware
- fourspell
- Windows32 spell checker for TeX, RTF, HTML, and BibTeX the
dictionaries of which are compatible with
WinEdT
- ispell
- A fast screen-oriented spelling checker that shows you your
errors in the context of the original file, and suggests
possible corrections when it can figure them out
- jspell
- An ASCII file spelling checker
Converters
TeX, and Word Processors:
You may now input text using
OpenOffice Writer and later
convert it to LaTeX with Java-based
Writer2LaTeX.
If you are using LyX there
are two converters coming with LyX for importing LaTeX files: reLyX (a
perl script), and tex2lyx (still experimental).
The TUG offers an overview of
converters
from PC
Textprocessors to LaTeX and vice versa
From LaTeX
to PC. Some of the converters between LaTeX and
word processor formats can be found on CTAN:
- catdoc
- Converts binary MS-Word files into ascii text, optionally
with some TeX control sequences
- latex2rtf
- Convert LaTeX into Rich Text Format
- tex2rtf
- Convert TeX into Rich Text Format
- word2x
- A word 6 to anything converter, currently supporting output
formats in text and LaTeX
- WordML2LaTeX
- A XSL stylesheet that transforms a Word document (WordML) in
a LaTeX2e source for using MS Word as a front end for
LaTeX.
TeX to HTML:
- bbl2html
- Convert a LaTeX .bbl file to formatted html code
- bibhtml
- Consists of a Perl script and a
BibTeX style file, which
together allow you to compile a bibliography for a collection
of HTML files
- bib2xhtml
- A program that converts BibTeX files into HTML (specifically
XHTML 1.0)
- hyperlatex
- A package that allows you to prepare documents in HTML and
to produce a neatly printed document from your input using
LaTeX
- latex2html
- A Perl program that translates LaTeX
into HTML
- ltoh
- A converter from LaTeX to HTML
- tex4ht
- A converter from TeX and LaTeX to hypertext (HTML,
XML, etc.), providing a configurable
(La)TeX-based authoring system for hypertext
- tex_converter
- Windows front-end to various LaTeX to HTML converters
- tth
- A TeX to HTML translator
- typehtml
- Typeset HTML directly from LaTeX that can handle almost all
of HTML2, and most of the math fragment of the draft HTML3
Font Formats:
- fontinst
- TeX macros for converting Adobe Font Metric files to TeX
metric and virtual font format
- mf2pt1
- Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts from
MetaFont source
- mf2pt3
- Perl script to generate PostScript Type
3 fonts from MetaFont
sources by processing
- ttf2mf
- MS program to convert True Type to
metafont
- ttf2pk
- This tool rasterizes the glyph outlines of a TrueType font
into a bitmap font in PK format as part of the
FreeType package
- ttf2pt1
- A tool that converts True Type fonts into
PS Type 1 fonts
- ttf2tex
- A Bash script which will create all files neccessary to use
TrueType fonts with teTeX
from a set of TTF files
- ttf2tfm
- Extracts the metric and kerning information of a TrueType
font and converts it into metric files usable by TeX (quite
similar to afm2tfm which is part of the
dvips package)
- ttftogf
- Convert MS-Windows True Type fonts to GF format
Misc:
There is Calc2LaTeX
for converting OpenOffice spreadsheets to LaTeX tables.
- a2ping
- A UNIX command line utility written in Perl that converts
many raster image and vector graphics formats to EPS or PDF
and other page description formats
- bib2xhtml
- A program that converts BibTeX files into HTML (specifically
XHTML 1.0)
- binhex
- Convert numbers into binary, octal and hexadecimal
- bit2spr
- Convert X-bitmap format for use with the
sprite package
- bm2font
- Convert bitmaps to PK fonts
- bmeps
- Converter from PNG/JPEG/TIFF/NetPBM to EPS
- bm2ltx
- Convert bitmap image to LaTeX document
- catdvi
- A DVI to plain text translator capable of generating ASCII,
Latin-1 and UTF-8 (Unicode) output
- c2latex
- Simple conversion of C programs to LaTeX
- convert
- Convert a file in an 8-bit character set to one that uses
Knuth's notation for non-ASCII characters
- csvtools
- Allows you to repeatedly perform a set of LaTeX commands on
data in each row of a comma separated variable (CSV) file
- degrade
- A LaTeX package that degrades JPEG images on the fly to
decrease the size of the resulting PostScript or PDF file
- delimtxt
- Read and parse text tables
- detex
- A program to remove TeX constructs from a text file
- dvi2bitmap
- Utility to convert TeX DVI files directly to bitmaps
- dvi2tty
- A DVI driver to produce an ASCII representation of the
document
- dvipng
- A fast DVI to PNG/GIF converter
- dvisvgm
- Converts DVI files to Scalable Vector Graphics format (SVG)
- easylatex
- Converts simple text files into LaTeX documents and calls
all necessary tools
- eps2pdf
- A front end to
- epstool
- Epstool is a utility to create or extract preview images in
EPS files, fix bounding boxes and convert to bitmaps
ghostscript
for converting EPS files to PDF
- epstopdf
- Convert EPS to encapsulated PDF using
ghostscript
- Excel-to-LaTeX
- Convert Excel spreadsheets to LaTeX tables (works with Excel
up to Excel 97)
- exceltex
- A LaTeX package combined with a helper program written in
Perl for getting data from Excel files into LaTeX
- mif2xfig
- A tool to convert diagrams from Frame Maker's MIF format to
XFig's format, and vice versa
- png2pdf
- PNG to PDF converter
- psrip
- Extracts images from PostScript files
- pstoedit
- Translate PostScript and PDF to other formats
- pstotext
- Extract ASCII from PostScript and PDF which uses
ghostscript, but does a more careful job with kerned
characters and nonstandard font encodings than Ghostscript's
ps2ascii utility
- txt2latex
- A small Perl script intended to
facilitate batch conversion of largely unformatted ASCII text
for use with LaTeX
- txt2tex
- Converts plain text into something with a little LaTeX
formatting
- xl2latex
- Convert Excel (97 and above) tables to LaTeX tabulars
Using Perl with LaTeX
- btool
- Perl library for parsing and processing BibTeX files
- perltex
- Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code
Using SGML and XML with LaTeX
- jadetex
- Macro package on top of LaTeX to typeset TeX output of Jade
DSSSL implementation
TeX Catalogue
- sgmlcmpt
- Suppport for LaTeX formulae as SGML PCDATA
- xmlplay
- An xmltex package for typsetting the plays of Shakespeare,
as marked up by Jon Bosak
- xmltex
- Support for parsing XML documents
Some more binaries
- arlatex
- An archiving programme that creates a single file from all
files used for producing a LaTeX document; all the ancillary
files will be recreated when this file is run through LaTeX
- bzip2
- Compression program
Miscellanous Packages
- afterpackage
- Add commands to package after it's loaded
- alatex
- ALaTeX provides the user with all the functionality of LaTeX
but with one small change: a general, legal way to override
standard LaTeX behavior without altering source files
- ant
- A typesetting system inspired by TeX
- aro-bend
- "Around the bend" exercices in TeX with answers
- autoconf
- LaTeX for Autoconf is a set of macros in the M4 language to
test if latex is installed or if some package exists or some
other conditions apply
- bbcard
- Bullshit bingo, calendar and baseball-score cards
- bits
- A programmer's interface for a new idea called a
"bit," which is like an environment but has a title,
author, and other attributes usually only associated with the
document environment
- bosisio
- A collection of packages by Francesco Bosisio
- braket
- Dirac bra-ket and set notation
- catalogue-tools
- Tools to assist in the maintenance of the CTAN catalogue
- cstug
- No description available
- de-macro
- A Python script that helps removing LaTeX macros from a
document
- digiconfigs
-
- dtl
- Tools to dis-assemble and re-assemble DVI files
- dvichk
- List the page numbers in a DVI file
- dvii
- Extract information from a DVI file
- dviljk
- A dvi driver for the LaserJet printers
- dvipaste
- DVI manipulation
- dvitype
- Type out the content of a DVI file
- eemeir
- Adjust the gender of words in a document
- eijkhout
- Victor Eijkhout's packages
- eplain
- Simple but powerful extended version of the plain format,
adding support for bibliographies, tables of contents,
enumerated lists, verbatim input of files, numbered equations,
tables, two-column output, footnotes and
commutative diagrams
- collect
- Collect text for later re-use
- ellipsis
- Fix uneven spacing around ellipses in LaTeX text mode
- extdash
- A range of dash commands for compound words as part of the
ncctools package
- fragments
- A collection of fragments of LaTeX code
- lips
- Defines a special command that produces ellipses according to the
Chicago Manual of Style
- wordcount
- Estimate the number of words in a LaTeX document