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    <i>TeX Catalogue (Preface Ctan Edition)</i>
    <a href="http://www.togaware.com">Graham Williams</a>
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<p>
<hr>
<p class="notes"> Welcome to The TeX Catalogue Online, Ctan
Edition, listing 5,525 TeX, LaTeX, and related packages and tools.
Most are available online from <a href="http://tug.ctan.org">CTAN, the
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network</A>. Announcements of new packages and
updates are available as a
<a href="http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.ctan.announce">blog
and rss feed</a>. For a good on-line overview of
using LaTeX see Peter Flynn's <a
href="http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/html/index.html">Beginner's Introduction</a>. Visit CTAN for assistance with
<a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=inst-wlcf">installing a file</a>.
The canonical location of the Catalogue is at <a
href="http://texcatalogue.ctan.org">texcatalogue.ctan.org</a> while
the source of the entries (that is, without the author information that
includes emails) can be <code>rsync</code>-ed from 
<code>rsync.cam.ctan.org</code>.
A PDF version is available from <a href="http://www.togaware.com">Togaware</a>.
</p>
<ul> 
<li> You can <a href="http://www.ctan.org/search/">Search</a> the
 Catalogue and other CTAN related material, courtesy of Jim Hefferon.

<LI>The
<a href="http://texcatalogue.ctan.org">Home</a> Edition
is a stand-alone version of the Catalogue.

<li>The <a href="alpha.html">Alphabetic</a> Index lists the name of each entry with a link to the full entry.

<LI>The <A HREF="brief.html">Brief</A> Index has a short
description of each entry and a link to the full entry.

<LI>The <A HREF="bytopic.html">Topical</A> Index provides a
systematic index by topic.

<LI>The <A HREF="hier.html">Hierarchical</A> Index is based on
the CTAN hierarchy with links to full entries.


<li>The Full Catalogue, as a PDF document, is available for purchase from <a href="http://www.togaware.com/">Togaware</a>
for a small fee to help support further development.
  
</ul> 

<p>See the <A HREF="licenses.html">CTAN License Information</A> Web
page for information on licenses.</P>

<HR>

<p>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 is geographically close to you.
Multiple clicks may find alternatives. Courtesy of Randy Kobes.)
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<TABLE WIDTH="100%">
<TR>

<TD ALIGN="center">
<A HREF="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/index.html"><IMG SRC="./search.png" ALT="search"></A><BR><B>search</B>
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  <a href="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CTAN/help/Catalogue/index.html"><img class="flag" height=15 alt="au" title="Australia" src=./au.png></a>
  <br><b>aarnet</b>
</td-->

<td align=center>
  <a href="ftp://ctan.unsw.edu.au/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/index.html"><img class="flag" height=15 alt="au" title="Australia" src="./au.png"></a>
  <br><b>unsw</b>
</td>

<td align=center>
<a href="ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/tex/help/Catalogue/index.html"><img class="flag" height=15 src="./ch.png" alt="ch" title="Switzerland"></a> <br> <b>switch</b>

<td align=center>
<a href="ftp://ftp.cstug.cz/pub/tex/CTAN/help/Catalogue/index.html"><img class="flag" height=15 src="./cz.png" alt="cz" title="The Czech Republic"></a><br><b>cstug</b>

<td align=center>
<a href="ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/index.html"><img class="flag" height=15 src="./de.png" alt="de" title="Germany"></a> <br> <b>dante</b>

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<a href="http://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/index.html"><img class="flag" height=15 src="./gb.png" alt="gb" title="Great Britain"></a> <br> <b>tex</b>
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  <br><b>roma</b>
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  <a href="http://ftp.ktug.or.kr/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/index.html"><img class="flag" height=15 alt="kr" title="Korea" src="./kr.png"></a>
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  <br><b>gust</b>
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<hr><p>Icons associated with many entries in the catalogue
allow you to:

<ul>
  <li><img alt="CTAN" src="./search.png">
      view the directory on a nearby CTAN node
  <li><img alt="DANTE" src="./dir.png">
      view the directory on a nearby CTAN node
  <li><img alt="Download" src="./tar.png">
      download a zip file from a nearby CTAN node
  <li><img alt="Download" src="./tar.png">
      download a zip file from the Dante CTAN node
  <li><img alt="Home" src="./home.png">
      jump to the package's home page
  <li><img src="./doc.png"
           alt="Documentation">
      view documentation (possibly many)
  <li><img src="./acroread.png"
           alt="PDF">
      view PDF documentation (requires <a href="http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html">acroread</a> or similar plugin)
  <li><img src="./ps.png"
           alt="PostScript">
      view PostScript documentation
  <li><img src="./dvi.png"
           alt="DVI">
      view DVI documentation
  <li><img src="./html.png"
           alt="HTML">
      view HTML documentation
</ul>


<p>Other icons simply provide further information about the package:

<ul>

<li><img src="./texlive.png" alt="TeX Live">
available on the
<a href="http://www.tug.org/texlive/index.html">TeX&nbsp;Live CD ROM</a>

<li><img src="./miktex.png" alt="MiKTeX">
part of the
<a href="http://www.miktex.org/">MiKTeX distribution</a>

</ul>

<p> The file <a href="ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/README.structure"
 >CTAN:README.structure</A> describes the purpose of each top
 level directory. </p>


<hr>

<p>The catalogue began life in 1986! It was originially maintained as
a BibTeX database, and started generating HTML in 1992. It migrated to
XML using XSL style sheets to generate the various formatted versions
of the catalogue in 1997.  The source migrated to the open source
server Sarovar
in 2004, together with a rewrite of all the processing code from XSL
to Python, with much relief. The DTD for the Catalogue is in <A
HREF="catalogue.dtd">catalogue.dtd</A> or generically <A
HREF="http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/catalogue.dtd">here</A>.

<P>The catalogue is regularly updated and others are welcome to join
the team maintaining the catalogue. There are bound to be errors in
the catalogue.  If you come across any, or have comments,
enhancements, and additions, please send them to <a href="mailto:catalogue@tug.org">catalogue@tug.org</a>.

<p>The catalogue has evolved over quite a few years.  Thanks to many
who have contributed entries and ideas.  In particular, <a
href="http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet">Piet van Oostrum</a> supplied quite
a few one line descriptions and Sebastian Rahtz has added many entries
for the <A HREF="http://www.tug.org/texlive">TUG TeX&nbsp;Live CDROM</A>.
Robin Fairbairns 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 created the
extremely useful CGI script used to <A
HREF="http://mirror.ctan.org/">locate a nearby CTAN
node</A>.  Jim Hefferon implemented and maintains the Catalogue <A
HREF="http://www.ctan.org/search/">search</A> facility. Joao Palhoto Matos
made the icons look great.


<P>Juergen Fenn maintains the topical index to the Catalogue and Martin
Bayer has provided a template for the improved look and feel of
the catalogue.

<P>Robin Fairbairns and the CTAN team have been active maintainers of
the Catalogue, particularly as new packages are added to CTAN and
other deficiencies of the Catalogue are identified.

<P> Other sources of information about TeX and LaTeX can be obtained
from the <A HREF="http://www.tug.org/">TeX Users Group</A>.

<p>

The Catalogue is Copyright &copy; 1986-2011 by Graham Williams, but is
made available under the <a href="licenses.lppl.html">LaTeX Project
Public License (lppl)</a> License, allowing you to freely distribute it.

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