by Graham Williams

CTAN Edition

Welcome to The TeX Catalogue Online, CTAN Edition. This catalogue lists many TeX, LaTeX, and related packages and tools. Most are available world wide online from CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. Links are provided in this catalogue to available sources and documentation.

There are several ways to use this online catalogue. The complete version (over 800K) contains the full catalogue as a single document. The compressed version (80K) is the same, but gzipped. The Home Edition is a "stand-alone" (i.e., does not assume it is located on a CTAN node) version of catalogue. If you want to download your own copy for personal use then that version is the most functional in stand-alone mode. The alphabetically indexed edition chunks the catalogue into smaller pages with a complete index of all entries included. The hierarchal index is based on the CTAN hierarchy.

The TeX Catalogue Online is also available from any CTAN node or mirror, including the following. Pick one that is close to you. (The "search" link attempts to find a CTAN node that may be close to you. Multiple clicks may find alternatives.)

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aarnet

switch

cstug

dante

loria

tex

roma

riken

gust

rge

tug

The catalogue is maintained as a BibTeX database and is regularly updated. There are bound to be errors in the catalogue. If you come across any, or have comments, enhancements, and additions, please send them to me at Graham.Williams@cmis.csiro.au.

The catalogue has evolved over quite a few years. Thanks to many who have contributed entries and ideas. In particular, Piet van Oostrum supplied quite a few one line descriptions and Sebastian Rahtz has added many entries for the TUG TeX Live CDROM. Robin Fairbains and Barbara Beeton have provided various updates and suggestions. Stanislaw Wawrykiewicz maintains many of the Polish entries from GUST. Randy Kobes contributed code and ideas for the alphabetic and hierachical editions and maintains and runs the extremely useful CGI script used to locate CTAN nodes. Other sources of information about TeX and LaTeX include:

• French list of various packages with documentation in dvi (in English)
• Cued LaTeX at Cambridge