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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label findfiles</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Finding (La)TeX files</h3>
-<p/>Modern TeX distributions contain a huge array of support files of
-various sorts, but sooner or later most people need to find something
-that&rsquo;s not in their present system (if nothing else, because they&rsquo;ve
-heard that something has been updated).
-<p/>But how to find the files?
-<p/>Some sources, such as these FAQ answers, provide links to
-files: so if you&rsquo;ve learnt about a package here, you should be able to
-retrieve it without too much fuss.
-<p/>Otherwise, the CTAN sites provide searching facilities, via the web.
-The simplest search, locating files by name, is to be found on the
-Dante CTAN
-at <a href="http://www.dante.de/cgi-bin/ctan-index">http://www.dante.de/cgi-bin/ctan-index</a>; the script scans a
-list of files (<i>FILES.byname</i> &mdash; see below) and returns a list
-of matches, arranged very neatly as a series of links to directories
-and to individual files.
-<p/>The <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/search">UK</a> and
-<a href="http://www.ctan.org/search.html">USA</a> CTANs offer a
-search page that provides
-<ul>
-<li> a file-name search similar to the Dante machine&rsquo;s (above);
-<li> a keyword search of the archive catalogue (see below): this is a
- pretty powerful tool: the results include links to the catalogue
- &ldquo;short descriptions&rdquo;, so you can assure yourself that the package
- you&rsquo;ve found is the one you want; and
-<li> a search form that allows you to use <i>Google</i> to search
- CTAN.
-</ul>
-<p/>An alternative way to scan the catalogue is to use the catalogue&rsquo;s
-
-<a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html">&ldquo;by topic&rdquo; index</a>;
-this lists a series of topics, and (La)TeX projects that are worth
-considering if you&rsquo;re working on matters related to the topic.
-<p/>In fact, <i>Google</i>, and other search engines, can be useful
-tools. Enter your search keywords, and you may pick up a package that
-the author hasn&rsquo;t bothered to submit to CTAN. If you&rsquo;re using
-<i>Google</i>, you can restrict your search to CTAN by
-entering
-<blockquote>
- <code>site:ctan.org tex-archive &lt;<i>search term(s)</i>&gt;</code>
-</blockquote><p>
-in <i>Google</i>&rsquo;s &ldquo;search box&rdquo;. You can also enforce the
-restriction using <i>Google</i>&rsquo;s &ldquo;advanced search&rdquo; mechanism;
-other search engines (presumably) have similar facilities.
-<p/>Many people avoid the need to go over the network at all, for their
-searches, by downloading the file list that the archives&rsquo; web
-file searches use. This file, <i>FILES.byname</i>,
-presents a unified listing of the archive (omitting directory names and
-cross-links). Its companion <i>FILES.last07days</i> is also useful, to
-keep an eye on the changes on the archive. Since these files are
-updated only once a day, a nightly automatic download (perhaps using
-<i>rsync</i>) makes good sense.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>FILES.byname</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/FILES.byname">FILES.byname</a>
-<dt><tt><i>FILES.last07days</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/FILES.last07days">FILES.last07days</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=findfiles">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=findfiles</a>
-</body>