### by Graham Williams

##### CTAN Edition

Welcome to The TeX Catalogue Online, CTAN Edition. This catalogue lists over 1000 TeX, LaTeX, and related packages and tools. Most are available online from CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. Links are provided in the catalogue to sources and documentation.

There are several ways to use this Catalogue. You can Search the Catalogue and other CTAN related material, courtesy of Jim Hefferon. The Complete Catalogue (over 1MB) contains the full catalogue as a single document. The Compressed Catalogue (over 100K) is the same, but gzipped. The Home Edition is a "stand-alone" version of the Catalogue (it does not assume it is located on a CTAN node). If you want to download your own copy for personal use then this version is the most functional stand-alone. The Brief Edition (200K) lists just the package name and a short description, with a link to the source. The Alphabetical Index chunks the catalogue into smaller pages with a complete index of all entries included. The Hierarchal Index is based on the CTAN hierarchy.

Search | Complete Catalogue | Compressed Catalogue | Home Edition | Brief Catalogue | Alphabetic Index | Hierarchical Index

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.)

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

The catalogue was originially maintained as a BibTeX database. It is now being migrated to XML using XSL style sheets to generate the verious formatted versions of the catalogue. 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.

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 <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk> 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. 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.