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| a4 | Support for A4 paper sizes. |
| a4wide | Increases width of printed area of an a4 page. |
| a5 | Support for a5 paper size. |
| abc2mtex | Notate tunes stored in abc notation. |
| accents | Multiple accents. |
| acronym | Expand acronyms at least once. |
| ae | A set of virtual fonts which emulates T1 coded fonts using the standard CM fonts. |
| algorithms | Defines a floating algorithm environment designed to work with the \href{\#algorithmic}{algorithmic} package. |
| amsbsy | Part of the \href{\#amslatex}{AMS-\LaTeX{}} distribution, this package provides a command for producing bold math symbols when appropriate fonts exist, and a `poor man's bold' command that can be applied when no appropriate bold font is available. |
| amscd | Part of the \href{\#amslatex}{AMS-\LaTeX{}} distribution, this package adapts the commutative diagram macros of AMS-\TeX{} for use in \LaTeX{}. |
| amsmath | This package is the principal package in the \href{\#amslatex}{AMS-\LaTeX{}} distribution. |
| amssymb | Part of the AMSFonts distribution, this \LaTeX{} option defines symbol names for all the math symbols in the fonts MSAM and MSBM, of the \href{\#amsfonts}{AMSFonts} package. |
| amstext | Part of the \href{\#amslatex}{AMS-\LaTeX{}} distribution, this package defines a |\text| macro, which makes it easy to incorporate fragments of text inside a displayed equation or a sub or superscript. |
| ar | \MF{} files and a \LaTeXe{} package for producing and using the capital A and capital R ligature, used for the symbol of the ``aspect ratio'' by scientists and engineers in the field of aeronautics. |
| armenian | A package which lets one to write in Armenian with \TeX{}. |
| array | An extended implementation of the array and tabular environments which implements options to format columns. |
| 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. |
| authorindex | A package to generate a list of all authors cited in a document along with a list of pages where these citations occur. |
| bakoma | A \TeX{} package intended for preparing Electronic Publications. |
| bez123 | A package providing additional facilities for drawing linear, cubic, and rational quadratic Bezier curves. |
| bezos | Unrelated packages by Javier Bezos: tools for math accents; tensorial indexes; tools for easy entry of Spanish index entries. |
| bibarts | A package to assist in making bibliographical lists common in the arts. |
| bibweb | Automatically retrieve bibliography from MathSciNet. |
| bm | This is a package for accessing bold symbols in math mode. |
| bosisio | A collection of packages including: \href{\#dblfont}{dblfont}; \href{\#graphfig}{graphfig}; \href{\#mathcmd}{mathcmd}; \href{\#mathenv}{mathenv}; \href{\#quotes}{quotes}; \href{\#sobolev}{sobolev}. |
| boxedminipage | A package for producing boxed minipages. |
| c | A \TeX{} macro package for typesetting programs in C and Pascal. |
| calendar | A package for calendars and timetables. |
| cancel | Lines through maths formulae. |
| caption2 | Newer version of the caption package. |
| carlisle | Miscellaneous small packages by David Carlisle. |
| ccaption | A package providing commands for `continuation' headings and also a non-specific legend for floats. |
| ccfonts | Concrete fonts. |
| china2e | A \LaTeX{} package to produce Chinese calendar symbols of the old Chinese lunisolar calendar. |
| 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). |
| cjk | A macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean with \LaTeXe. |
| cjk | Fonts to go with the \href{\#cjk}{cjk} macro package for Chinese/Japanese/Korean with \LaTeXe. |
| cmdtrack | Check used commands. |
| cmsd | A package including additional fd files. |
| cmtt | A package for handling the `cmtt' font better. |
| concmath | Concrete math fonts. |
| concrete | A wrapper to load up the appropriate packages to use the concrete fonts. |
| context | A full featured, parameter driven macro package, which fully supports advanced interactive documents. |
| count1to | A \LaTeX{} package which sets count1 to count9, which can be used to select certain pages with a driver. |
| crop | A package providing corner marks for camera alignment as well as for trimming paper stacks, and additional page information on every page if required. |
| crosswrd | Brian Hamilton Kelly's crosswrd package updated to run with \LaTeXe. |
| dblfont | A package intended for generating commands that print letters in the blackboard-bold font (which is often used for the numerical sets, for example). |
| delimtxt | Read and parse text tables. |
| directory | A package for \LaTeX{} and \BibTeX{} that facilitates the construction, maintenance and exploitation of an address book-like database. |
| 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. |
| doublespace | Defines the spacing environment which you can use anywhere in your document. |
| dropping | A \LaTeXe{} macro for dropping the first character(s) (or word(s)) of a paragraph, extending the \LaTeX{} 2. |
| easybib | Simple syntax for custom bibliographies. |
| easybmat | Block matricies. |
| easyeqn | A simple package for writing equations. |
| easymat | A simple package for writing matrices. |
| easytable | A simple package for writing tables. |
| edmac | A macro package for typesetting scholarly critical editions. |
| egplot | A package to encapsulate \href{\#gnuplot}{gnuplot} commands in a \LaTeX{} source file and thus include figures generated with gnuplot. |
| eijkhout | Several unrelated packages: |DB_process|, to parse and process database output; |CD_labeler|, to typeset user text to fit on a CD label; |repeat. |
| emp | A package for encapsulated \href{\#metapost}{MetaPost} pictures in \LaTeX. |
| envlab | A \LaTeXe{} package for producing mailing envelopes and labels, including barcodes and address formatting according to the US Postal Service rules. |
| epic | A package enhancing \LaTeX{}'s picture mode. |
| epigraph | A package for typesetting epigraphs---the pithy quotations often found at the start (or end) of a chapter. |
| epsfig | Include Encapsulated PostScript in \LaTeX{} documents. |
| eso | A package to add picture commands to every page. |
| ethiop | 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. |
| euler | Provides a setup for using the AMS Euler family of fonts for math in \LaTeX{} documents. |
| euro2 | National and Euro currancy. |
| eurofont | Provides a command that prints a euro symbol. |
| eurosans | Provides a convenient interface for using the free Adobe Euro fonts in \TypeI{} (PostScript) format. |
| eurosym | The new European currency symbol for the ``Euro'' implemented in Metafont, using the official European Commission dimensions, and providing several shapes (normal, slanted, bold, outline). |
| everysel | A \LaTeX{} package which provides hooks into \cs{selectfont}. |
| expl3 | Experimental packages to allow experienced \TeX{} programmers to experiment with, and comment on, a proposed set of syntax conventions and basic data-types that might form the basis for programming large scale projects in \TeX{}. |
| export | This package allows the user to export/import the values of \LaTeX{} registers (counters, rigid and rubber lengths only). |
| fancyref | A \LaTeX{} package for fancy cross-referencing. |
| filehdr | A collection of tools to support \BibTeX{} style format for file/package descriptions. |
| float | Improves the interface for defining floating objects such as figures and tables. |
| fncychap | This package provides six predefined chapter headings. |
| footbib | A package to put bibliographic references as footnotes. |
| footmisc | Footnotes package for \LaTeX{} capturing as package options much (if not all) of the functionality of the various other footnote packages. |
| ftetx | A \TeX{} package for FTE (FTE = Folding Text Editor by Marko Macek) Adds a \TeX{} menu system for FTE. |
| gloss | A glossary package modelled on \BibTeX{} with |\cite| replaced by |\gloss|. |
| gnuplot | A package to faciliate the use of gnuplot pslatex output in \LaTeX. |
| graphfig | This package combines the tools of the graphic, subfigure and float packages in a way that makes their use simpler and more robust. |
| graphics | The primary \LaTeX{} package for the support of the inclusion of graphics generally produced with other tools. |
| graphicx | Better support for graphics. |
| grfguide | Guide to using graphics in \LaTeX, including documentation on various packages including \href{\#color}{color} and \href{\#graphicx}{graphicx}. |
| grfpaste | Provides an mechanism to include fragments of dvi files with the graphicx package: you can use |\includegraphics| to include dvi files. |
| grnumalt | A package which implements a numbering system used in ancient Athens, producing the `Athenian' numeral for any positive arabic numeral. |
| grtimes | Typeset Greek text with the Times New Roman Greek. |
| gustlib | Various small utility packages for typesetting in plain \TeX, with a Polish perspective. |
| hanging | The hanging package facilitates the typesetting of hanging paragraphs. |
| harpoon | Extra harpoons, using the graphics package. |
| here | Provides the H option for floats in \LaTeX{} to mean that the float should really be placed here. |
| hilowres | A package to simplify the inclusion of low resolution versions of high resolution images, if each pair of files have the same basename (e. |
| html2latex | The html2latex package compiled from the Unix sources version 0. |
| hyperlatex | A package that allows you to prepare documents in HTML and to produce a neatly printed document from your input using \LaTeX{}. |
| hyphenat | Disable/enable hypenation. |
| indxcite | A package to automatically generate an Author Index based on citations made using \BibTeX. |
| isostds | Class and package files for typesetting ISO International Standard documents. |
| jadetex | Macro package on top of \LaTeX{} to typeset \TeX{} output of Jade DSSSL implementation. |
| knst | A package supporting the generation and correction of multiple option tests as appears in TUGBoat Volume 17, Number3: ``Fast and secure multiple option tests''. |
| koi8 | A package to perform internal translation from the KOI-8 encoding (de-facto standard of the UNIX world) to the so called ``alternative encoding'' used by most Cyrillic packages. |
| latex | \LaTeX{} is a (and probably the most) popular macro package for \TeX, providing many basic document formating commands extended by many of the packages included in this current list. |
| latexcad | A CAD drawing package. |
| latin2jk | A definition file for the \href{\#inputenc}{inputenc} package, where all characters from IS=-8859-2 (Latin-2) are loaded as text characters. |
| linguex | A package to facilitate the formatting of linguist examples, automatically taking care of example numbering, indentations, indexed brackets, and the ``*'' in grammaticality judgments. |
| listings | A package for typesetting listings using \LaTeXe. |
| 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). |
| lucold | A package to switch the rendering of all the digits to the so-called ``old-style'' numbers, when using Lucida fonts. |
| margbib | A package for displaying bibliography tags in the margins. |
| marvosym | A Macintosh version of the \href{\#marvosym}{marvosym} font. |
| mathcomp | A package which provides access to some interesting characters of the Text Companion fonts (TS1 encoding) in math mode. |
| mathpple | A package to define the PostScript font family `Palatino' (ppl) as the default roman font and then uses the `mathpple' fonts for typesetting math. |
| meta | A GNU Emacs Lisp package that implements a major mode for editing \MF{} or \href{\#metapost}{MetaPost} sources. |
| method | Typeset method and variable declarations. |
| mf | A \MF{} package including: epstomf a tiny AWK script for converting EPS files into MF lingo; and mftoeps for generating (encapsulated) PostScript files readable, e. |
| mf2tex | A package of macros in \TeX{} and \MF{} which allows a user to easily add labels to \MF{} sources (text or mathematics). |
| mff | A package to provide something similar to `multiple master' fonts, but using \MF; you specify a font by a set of \MF{} parameters, and \TeX{} makes up an mf file to generate the required font; this package is not integrated with NFSS (or MakeTeXTFM) yet fun. |
| mflogo | \LaTeX{} interface for \MF{} and \MP{} logo fonts. |
| morehelp | A package to enhance \LaTeXe{} error messages by providing descriptions of the possible causes including those that may not be obvious. |
| moresize | A \LaTeXe{} package for using font sizes up to 35. |
| morse | A package for printing Morse code signs. |
| mpattern | A package for defining and using patterns in MetaPost, using the Pattern Color Space available in PostScript Level 2. |
| mpfnmark | A package which provides the command |\mpfootnotemark|, which can be used in the same way as |\footnotemark|. |
| ms | Various \LaTeX{} packages by Martin Schr\"oder. |
| mt11p | A package to use the MathTime and MathTimePLUS (``MathTime complete'') fonts in \LaTeXe. |
| multicol | A package to intermix single and multiple columns. |
| multitoc | A \LaTeX{} package which automatically sets only the table of contents, list of figures and list of tables in two or more columns. |
| myletter | Another letter package. |
| ncctools | Various \LaTeX{} packages written and supported by Alexander Rozhenko. |
| overword | Provides two macros which can be used as building blocks for the parsing of text. |
| pageno | A \LaTeX{} package that can re-define the plain page style under the control of options, so you can have page numbers: at the top or bottom of the page; in the inside corner, outside corner, or in the middle. |
| patch | Macros for package management. |
| path | A \LaTeX{} package to break long strings at convenient places. |
| pawpict | Using graphics from PAW. |
| pb | A diagram package using LAMS\TeX{} or Xy-pic fonts. |
| pbmtogf | Convert pbm images to gf font files. |
| pdfscreen | Support screen-based document design. |
| permute | A package for symmetric groups, allowing you to input, output, and calculate with them. |
| picinpar | Insert pictures into paragraphs. |
| piq | \MF{} package for the Klingon language with okuda orthography. |
| plain | The plain. |
| plgraph | \LaTeX{} graphics package with wrapper to allow it to be used with generic plain \TeX. |
| pmcstex | A macro package that implements many (em)TeX related features for the OS/2 EPM editor. |
| polyglot | A package for \LaTeXe{} multilingual support. |
| ppchtex | A package that can be used to typeset chemical formulas. |
| prettyref | Additional functionality for the \LaTeXe{} label--reference mechanism allowing the ``preformat'' of all types of labels. |
| protex | Literate programming package. |
| pslatex | A small package that makes \LaTeX{} default to `standard' PostScript fonts. |
| pstricks | An extensive collection of PostScript macros that is compatible with most \TeX{} macro packages, including Plain \TeX, \LaTeX, AMS-\TeX, and AMS-\LaTeX. |
| qsymbols | For defining systematic mnemonic abbreviations, starting with |`| for math symbols and |\"| for arrows, from the amssymb and stmaryrd packages. |
| quotchap | A package for creating decorative chapter headings with quotations, a PostScript output device and the \href{\#psnfss}{psnfss} package are needed, the \href{\#color}{color} package and a greyscale output device are recommended. |
| quotes | A package to automatically translate the character |\"| to |``| or |''| so that opening and closing quotes are correctly produced. |
| r | This package decodes the german `R- und S-S\"atze', which are numerically coded security advice for chemical substances into plain text. |
| ragged2e | A \LaTeX{} package which defines new commands |\Centering|, |\RaggedLeft|, and |\RaggedRight| and new environments Center, FlushLeft, and FlushRight, which set ragged text and are easily configurable to allow hyphenation. |
| rail | A C program and \LaTeX{} package to draw syntax diagrams specified in EBNF. |
| rawfonts | A \LaTeXe{} package providing emulation of \LaTeX{} 2. |
| rawprint | Print raw Russian text. |
| rcsinfo | Support for the revision control system. |
| relenc | \LaTeX{} package providing a relaxed font encoding to make available to a font designer more slots for insertion of ligatures and accented characters. |
| rlepsf | A macro package for use with epsf. |
| rmpage | A package to help change page layout parameters in \LaTeX{}. |
| romaniantex | A \LaTeXe{} package for type-setting Romanian in a multi-lingual \TeX{} environment. |
| rotating | A package built on the standard \LaTeX{} graphics package to perform all the different sorts of rotation one might like, including complete figures and tables and captions. |
| sauterfonts | A package providing font definition files (plus a replacement for the package \href{\#exscale}{exscale}) to access many of the fonts in Sauter's (Knappen's, Holin's) collection. |
| scale | A package to scale a document by \ensuremath{\sqrt{2}} (or by |\magstep{2}|). |
| schedule | A package intended to automatically format weekly schedules using \LaTeX's picture environment. |
| sectsty | A \LaTeXe{} package to help change the style of any or all of \LaTeX's sectional headers in the article, book, or report classes. |
| shadethm | Package that allows declarations of the form |\newshadetheorem{thm}{Theorem}| or |\newshadetheorem{}[]{}| or |\newshadetheorem{}{}[]| to produce shaded boxes from the usual command |\begin{theorem}| \ldots |\end{theorem}|. |
| shalom | A package intended for simple documents with some Hebrew (using some words, an address, a short abstract, without fussing around with \TeX--\Xet, hebrew screen fonts or keyboard encodings). |
| shorttoc | A package to create another table of contents with a different depth, useful in large documents where a detailed table of contents should be accompanied by a shorter one, giving only a general overview of the main topics in the document. |
| showdim | A package for \LaTeX{} providing a number of commands for printing the value of a \TeX{} dimension. |
| slashed | A package to put / through characters, for the Physicist's `Feynman slashed character' notation. |
| slidenotes | A class package for the easy production of a slide collection with annotations. |
| smartmn | This package activates the minus sign such that it guesses whether to print as a hyphen or as minus sign in text mode (which is one of the most common typografical errors in \LaTeX{} texts). |
| somedefs | A programmer's toolkit package for use by package writers supporting the provision of options which switch definitions contained in a package on and off through package options. |
| soul | Provides hyphenateable spacing out (letterspacing), underlining, striking out, etc. |
| ssqquote | \LaTeX{} package and font definition file to access the `cmssq' fonts, i. |
| stdclsdv | The stdclsdv package is designed for package writers who need to know what sectioning divsions are provided by the document's class. |
| supertabular | A multi-page tables package. |
| synttree | A package to typeset syntactic trees such as those used in Chomsky's Generative grammar, based on a description of the structure of the tree. |
| tabbing | A package offering a variant of the tabbing environment which allows accented letters. |
| tap | An advanced, however easy table package. |
| tcvn | A package for vietnamese TCVN encoding which is widely used in Windows applications. |
| tensind | A package for typesetting tensors, with dots filling gaps and fine tuning of index placement. |
| tensor | A package which allows the user to set tensor-style super and subscripts with offsets between successive indices. |
| termcal | This package is intended to print a term calendar for use in planning a class. |
| testmath | Examples of the AMS-\LaTeX{} package. |
| texsis | A Plain \TeX macro package along the lines of \LaTeX. |
| textpos | Place boxes absolutely. |
| thumbpdf | Thumbnails for pdfTeX. |
| tiff | The tiff graphics package. |
| times | A package to use PostScript Times Roman as the default font. |
| timing | Fonts and macro package for drawing timing diagrams. |
| titlesec | Select alternative section titles. |
| tocloft | Provides control over the typography of the Table of Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables. |
| ttf2pk | This tool rasterizes the glyph outlines of a TrueType font into a bitmap font in PK format. |
| 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). |
| twoup | Print two virtual pages on each physical page. |
| type1cm | A package that removes the restriction when using scalable versions of the cm fonts (\TypeI{} Bakoma, or versions from BSR/Y\&Y, or True Type versions from Kinch, PC\TeX{}, etc. |
| uaclasses | This package provides a \LaTeXe{} document class named `ua-thesis' for typesetting theses and dissertations in the official format required by the University of Arizona. |
| underlin | Package for underlining. |
| uni | The Universal font. |
| units | Includes two packages for typesetting fractions and physical units. |
| utthesis | \LaTeX{} package for preparation of a thesis that meets the requirements of the Graduate School of the University of TeXas at Austin. |
| vruler | A package for adding a vertical numbering to the general text so that the text can be properly referenced. |
| warpcol | Defines a tabular column type for formatting numerical columns in \LaTeX{}. |
| wasysym | Makes some additional characters available that come from the wasy fonts (Waldis symbol fonts). |
| web2c | The ``standard'' source C version of the \TeX{} sysmtem. |
| winshell | A graphical user interface for interacting with \TeX{} on Win32 systems. |
| wp | A list (in HTML format) of packages for converting between \LaTeX{} and \TeX{} documents and a variety of other formats including RTF, Word, and Wordperfect. |
| xypic | A package for typesetting a variety of graphs and diagrams with TeX. |
| youngtab | A package for typesetting Young-Tableaux, mathematical symbols for the representations of groups, providing two macros, |\yng(\#1)| and |\young(\#1)| to generate the whole Young-Tableaux. |
| ytex | Macro package developed at MIT. |