Welcome to The TeX Catalogue Online, CTAN Edition, listing over 1200
TeX, LaTeX, and related packages and tools. Most are available online
from CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive
Network.
You can Search the
Catalogue and other CTAN related material, courtesy of Jim Hefferon.
The Home Edition is a
"stand-alone" version of the Catalogue.
The Alphabetic Index (80K) lists the name of each entry with a link to the full entry.
The Brief Index (300K) has a short
description of each entry and a link to the full entry.
The Hierarchical Index (200K) is based on
the CTAN hierarchy with links to full entries.
The Full
Catalogue (1.5MB) is the complete catalogue as a single file.
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. Courtesy of Randy Kobes.)
search
aarnet
switch
cstug
dante
loria
tex
roma
riken
gust
rge
tug
Icons associated with many entries in the catalogue
allow you to:
view the directory on the local CTAN node
view documentation (possibly many)
view documentation in PDF format (requires acroread plugin)
jump to the package's home page
download a gzip'd tar file from a nearby CTAN node
Other icons simply provide further information about the package:
The file CTAN:README.structure describes the purpose of each top
level directory.
The catalogue was originially maintained as a BibTeX database. It
has now migrated to XML using XSL style sheets to generate the various
formatted versions of the catalogue. Individual entries for the
Catalogue are maintained in CTAN:help/Catalogue/entries. A single XML catalogue
is available from here. The
appropriate DTD is in catalogue.dtd or
generically at my Home
Web.
The catalogue 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. Currently the Catalogue entries
are maintained manually by me through email requests. A Web page is
being set up to allow authors to update their Catalogue entries as
they submit to CTAN.
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 a nearby CTAN
node. Jim Hefferon
implemented and maintains the Catalogue search facility.
Other sources of information about TeX and LaTeX can be obtained
from the TeX Users Group.