### by Graham Williams

##### Section B CTAN Edition

Welcome to the XML based and XSL generated version of The TeX Catalogue Online, Section B CTAN Edition. This is a listing of entries in the TeX Catalogue and may take a little time to load, but is hopefully worth it. Have a look at the Catalogue Preface for alternative ways of accessing the catalogue.

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, courtesy of Randy Kobes. Multiple clicks may find alternatives.)

search | aarnet | switch | cstug | dante | loria | tex | roma | riken | gust | rge | ctan

Icons associated with many entries in the catalogue allow you to:

- view the directory on CTAN
- view documentation (possibly many)
- view documentation in PDF format (requires the acroread plugin)
- jump to the package's home page
- download a gzip'd tar file from a nearby CTAN node (not supported by all nodes)
- download a gzip'd tar file from ftp.dante.de

Other icons simply provide further information about the package:

- part of the teTeX distribution
- available on the TeX Live CD ROM

The license type, version (if known), and the date of the last change made to each particular Catalogue entry are also provided.

babel | Multilingual support for LaTeX.
| license: lppl version: 3.6l (1999/04/4)

backgammon | Style for typesetting backgammon boards.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

bakoma | BaKoMa TeX for MS-Window for electronic documents

A TeX package intended for preparing Electronic Publications. The system works under MS-Windows 3.1/9X/NT (with ATM installed). The system includes a complete extendable GUI (Text editor, DVI Viewer, Help system), an updated version of the BaKoMa Fonts Collection , the TeX processor with friends (BibTeX MakeIndex, MetaPost, DVIPS, DVICopy), a standard compliant TDS, and an installation program. The system supports the use of scalable fonts (PostScript and Type 3 font formats) and the importing of PostScript graphics into documents. The system supports generation of PDF and printing on any printer supported by a driver under MS-Windows. The system efficiently supports multiple TEXMF trees. See also miktex

| license: dfsg version: 2.10 (1999/05/20)

bakoma-fonts | Computer Modern and AMS fonts in PostScript Type1 form.
| license: unknown (1996/12/13)

bar | Provides the barenv environment for bar charts.
| license: unknown (1 Apr 1991)

barcode2 | No description available.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

barcodes | Fonts for making barcodes.
See also code128 ean
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

barr | Diagram macros by Michael Barr.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

base | Definitive source of Plain TeX on CTAN.
This archive is mirroed directly from labrea:/tex/lib/
| license: unknown (1999/03/26)

bbding | Symbol font including many Zapf dingbats.
An NFSS-interface to the symbol font bbding containing many of the Zapf dingbats fonts.
| license: lppl (1999/04/16)

bbm | No caption.
Blackboard variant fonts for Computer Modern, with LaTeX support. See also blackboard doublestroke dblfont
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

bbold | Sans serif blackboard bold.
A geometric sans serif blackboard bold font, for use in mathematics
| license: unknown (1999/03/26)

beebe | No caption.
Nelson Beebe's collection of TeX-related bibliographies and BibTeX style files.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

belleek | Free replacement for basic MathTime fonts.
Free replacement for basic MathTime fonts
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

beton | No caption.
Typeset a LaTeX2e document with the Concrete fonts designed by Don Knuth and used in his book ``Concrete Mathematics''. See also euler
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

bez123 | Support for Bezier curves.
A package providing additional facilities for drawing linear, cubic, and rational quadratic Bezier curves. The multiply package provides a command for multiplication of a length without numerical overflow.
| license: lppl (1999/03/03)

bezos | Packages by Javier Bezos.
Tools for math accents; tensorial indexes; tools for easy entry of Spanish index entries.
| license: lppl (1999/05/13)

bibarts | No caption.
A package to assist in making bibliographical lists common in the arts.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

bibdb | BibTeX bibliography manager fow MS-Windows and MS-DOS.
| license: pd (1999/04/15)

bibindex | No caption.
A stand-alone tool for indexing BibTeX documents to be searched using the corresponding biblook tool.
| license: unknown (1997/01/12)

biblio | No caption.
An extensive collection of BibTeX bibliographies on many topics (linux, java, sas, s-plus, amongst many others) and for many journals (lecture notes in computer science acm, byte, computer, and much, much, more.). Each includes a LaTeX wrapper file to typeset the bibliography.
| license: unknown version: 2.07 (1996/10/4)

biblios | No caption.
A MS-Windows95 tool that uses the CGI (common gateway interface) protocol so that BibTeX files can be managed remotely using an HTTP-server on the server side and a Web-browser such as Netscape on the client side.
| license: unknown (1996/08/16)

biblist | BibTeX styles by Joachim Schrod.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

biblook | No caption.
A stand-alone tool for searching BibTeX documents which have been indexed by bibindex .
| license: unknown version: 2.8 (1997/01/12)

bibsort | Sort a bibliography.
| license: unknown version: 0.11 (1996/11/12)

bibtex | Bibliography management for LaTeX.
| license: dfsg (1999/05/17)

bibtex8bit | A fully 8-bit adaptation of BibTeX 0.99.
| license: unknown (1996/08/19)

bibtool | No caption.

Command line manipulation of BibTeX files: Pretty-printing data bases; Syntactic checks with error recovery; Semantic checks. Sorting and merging of data bases; Generation of uniform reference keys according to predefined rules or according to user specification; Selecting references used in one publication which are found by analyzing an aux file; Controlled rewriting of fields utilising regular expressions to specify the rewriting rules; Macro (String) expansion to eliminate the need of extra string definitions; Collecting statistics about one or more data bases.

| license: unknown version: 2.41 (1998/02/24)

bibunits | No caption.
A style to generate separate bibliographies for different units (parts) of the text (chapters, sections or bibunit-environments). The style will separate the citations of each unit of text into a separate file to be processed by BibTeX. The global bibliography section produced by LaTeX can also appear in the document and citations can be placed in both at the same time.
| license: unknown (1997/05/29)

bibweb | Automatically retrieve bibliography from MathSciNet.

A utility to automatically retrieve mathematical bibliographical information, in BibTeX format, from the American Mathematical Society's MathSciNet database. More precisely, it acts as a front-end to BibTeX; it converts any citations that BibTeX can't find into queries to the MathSciNet database, it carries out those queries, and returns the answers in BibTeX format. Included in the package are: the perl script bibweb, documentation (in various formats), and a test file.

| license: gpl (1999/03/29)

bidstobibtex | No caption.
A tool to take input from a BIDS email message (generated using one of the downloading formats) to BibTeX.
| license: unknown (1996/10/21)

bits | Modular environments in LaTeX.
A LaTeX package that provides a programmer's interface for a new idea called a bit, which is like an environment but has a title, author, and other attributes usually only associated with the document environment. See also blkcntrl moredefs relsize
| license: gpl version: 1.1 1999/03/01 (1999/03/10)

bitstrea | No caption.
Font metrics, and macro support in LaTeX2e, for the free Bitstream fonts.
| license: unknown (1996/05/16)

blackboard | No caption.
A demonstration of the various blackboard bold typefaces available for TeX ( bbm , bbold, doublestroke , and msbm), including a PostScript file to preview them.
| license: unknown (1998/07/9)

blkarray | Extended array and tabular.
A package in its early stages of development which implements an environment, blockarray, that may be used in the same way as the array or tabular environments of standard LaTeX, or their extended versions defined in array.sty. If used in math-mode, blockarray acts like array, otherwise it acts like tabular. The main feature of this style is that it uses a new method of defining column types.
| license: lppl (1999/04/15)

blkcntrl | Block-element hooks in LaTeX.
A LaTeX package that inserts hooks into certain block elements and footnotes. Also provides a command to set block quotations one size smaller than the main text. See also moredefs relsize
| license: gpl version: 1.1 1999/02/25 (1999/03/10)

blue | No caption.
Kees van der Laan's BLUe format, a concise but expressive document preparation system modelled on Knuth's manmac.
| license: shareware (1999/03/03)

bluesky | Computer Modern family in format.
| license: dfsg (1999/03/03)

bm | This is a package for accessing bold symbols in math mode.
(Similar to the AMS \boldsymbol command, but taking more care over spacing, delimiters etc.).
| license: lppl version: 1.0a (1999/03/03)

booktabs | Nicer layout of tables.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

borceux | Diagram macros by Francois Borceux.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

bosisio | No caption.
A collection of packages including: dblfont ; graphfig ; mathcmd ; mathenv ; quotes ; sobolev .
| license: unknown (1998/05/1)

boxedminipage | A package for producing boxed minipages.
| license: unknown (1998/04/19)

braille | Support for braille.
| license: lppl (1999/05/09)

breqn | No description available.
| license: unknown (1999/02/22)

bridge | Macros for typesetting bridge diagrams.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

brief | No caption.
German private letter class with address boxes for window envelopes, a hook to put a figure or any kind of box in the top right corner, fold-marks (option falt), setting the text in informal \tt (option tt), configurable by a configuration file. See also akletter dinbrief envlab formlett
| license: unknown (1996/05/30)

brushscr | No caption.
BrushScript fonts including pbsi, a Type-1 PostScript font containing BrushScript Italic characters.
| license: unknown (1998/06/24)

btool | Perl and C library interface to BibTeX files.

Includes a C library called btparse and a perl library Text::BibTeX. Features include: robust, efficient lexical scanning and parsing of BibTeX files; excellent error detection, reporting, and recovery in the parser; full processing of BibTeX strings (macros expanded, whitespace collapsed, strings concatenated); handles all common entry types (@comment, @preamble, @string, and everything else) with ease, and gives you full access to the contents of all entry types; support for processing author names identically to BibTeX; preliminary support for imposing/enforcing a particular database structure.

| license: gpl version: 0.21 (1999/03/03)