### by Graham Williams

##### Section F CTAN Edition

Welcome to the XML based and XSL generated version of The TeX Catalogue Online, Section F 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.

fancybox | No caption.
Provides variants of \fbox: \shadowbox, \doublebox, \ovalbox, \Ovalbox, with helpful tools for using box macros and flexible verbatim macros. You can box mathematics, floats, center, flushleft, and flushright, lists, and pages.
| license: unknown (1998/03/2)

fancyhdr | Extensive control of page headers and footers in LaTeX2e.
| license: unknown version: 1.99b (1998/09/9)

fancyref | A LaTeX package for fancy cross-referencing.
| license: gpl (1999/03/03)

fancyvrb | No caption.
Sophisticated handling of verbatim text including: verbatim commands in footnotes; a variety of verbatim environments with many parameters; ability to define new customized verbatim environments; save and restore verbatim text and environments; write and read files in verbatim mode; build ``example'' environments (showing both result and verbatim text).
| license: unknown (1998/04/1)

faq | The UK TeX Users Group Frequently Asked Questions.
| license: unknown (1998/07/1)

fax | Document class for preparing faxes.
| license: unknown (1996/12/13)

fc | No caption.
Fonts for African languages, complementary to Computer Modern.
| license: unknown version: 1.3 (1999/03/03)

fepslatex | French version of esplatex.
| license: unknown (1998/11/6)

feynmf | Macros and fonts for creating Feynman (and other) diagrams.
Macros and fonts for creating Feynman (and other) diagrams.
| license: dfsg version: 1.08 (1996/05/30)

fihyph | Hyphenation patterns for Finnish language.
This is modified from fihyph.tex to make the Finnish accented letters to work with LaTeX2e, adding some \catcode, \uccode, and \lccode commands after the model used in the hyphenation files for the other European languages.
| license: unknown (1998/11/6)

filehdr | No caption.
A collection of tools to support BibTeX style format for file/package descriptions.
| license: unknown (1 Apr 1991)

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

finplain | A Finnish version of `plain.bst'.
| license: unknown (1998/06/29)

fix2col | Fix miscellaneous two column mode features.
Fix mark handling so that \firstmark is taken from the first column if that column has any marks at all; keep two column floats like figure* in sequence with single column floats like figure.
| license: lppl (1999/04/11)

flabels | Labels for files and folders.
Macros for typesetting pretty labels (optionally colored) for the back of files or binders (currently only the special a4 ``Leitz-Ordner'' ring binder is supported).
| license: lppl (1999/05/20)

flatex | No caption.
A C program to flatten a LaTeX file into a single file, by explicitly including the files inclued by \include and \input commands. Also, if BibTeX is being used, then includes the bbl file into the resulting file. Thus, creating a stand alone LaTeX file that can be emailed to someone else. See also flatten
| license: unknown version: 1.21 (1996/09/24)

flatten | No caption.
A program to flatten a LaTeX root file by copying \input and \include files into the root file. See also flatex
| license: dfsg (1996/06/18)

float | No caption.
Improves the interface for defining floating objects such as figures and tables. Introduces the boxed float and the ruled float. You can define your own floats and improve the behaviour of the old ones. Also incorporates the H option of the superseded here package. You can select this as automatic default with \floatplacement{figure}{H}.
| license: nosell (1996/05/25)

floatfig | Allows text to be wrapped around figures.
See also floatflt
| license: nosell (1999/03/03)

floatflt | No caption.
Float text around figures and tables which do not span the full width of a page, improving upon floatfig , allowing tables/figures to be set left/right or alternating on even/odd pages.
| license: nosell (1998/07/8)

fltpage | No caption.
Defines new environments for placing captions of tables and figures on the facing/following page.
| license: unknown version: 0.3 (1998/11/19)

fncychap | This package provides six predefined chapter headings.
Each can be modified using a set of simple commands. Optionally one can modify the formatting routines in order to create additional chapter headings. This package was previously known as FancyChapter.
| license: unknown (1996/12/13)

fnpara | No caption.
Typeset footnotes in run-on paragraphs, instead of one above another. See also endnotes footmisc footnpag
| license: unknown (1996/09/10)

foilhtml | No caption.
Provides integration between FoilTeX and LaTeX2HTML , adding sectioning commands and elements of logical formatting to FoilTeX and providing support for FoilTeX commands in LaTeX2HTML.
| license: lppl version: 1.2 (1999/03/03)

foiltex | A LaTeX2e class for overhead transparencies.
Can be used with fancybox to place a variety of borders around the slides. See also seminar slidenotes
| license: nocommercial version: 2.1.3 (1998/08/15)

fontinst | No caption.
TeX macros for converting Adobe Font Metric files to TeX metric and virtual font format.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

fontmisc | Miscellaneous MetaFont input files.
| license: unknown (1996/05/16)

fontname | Karl Berry's scheme for naming fonts in TeX.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

fonts | Extra line and circle fonts for LaTeX.
| license: unknown (1996/05/16)

fontsmpl | Print a sample of a font.
| license: unknown (1 Apr 1991)

footbib | A package to put bibliographic references as footnotes.
| license: unknown (1997/06/19)

footmisc | Footnotes with all the options.
Captures as package options much (if not all) of the functionality of the various other footnote packages. See also endnotes fnpara footnpag ftnright
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

footnpag | No caption.
Allows footnotes on individual pages to be numbered from 1, rather than being numbered sequentially through the document. See also endnotes fnpara footmisc
| license: gpl (1996/09/10)

formats | Prebuilt TeX format and MetaFont base files.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

formlett | Letters to multiple recipients.
See also akletter brief dinbrief envlab
| license: unknown (1997/05/27)

formula | No caption.
Support for physical symbols, ensuring the same shape in text and math mode, including some predefined physical units.
| license: unknown version: 0.2 (1998/06/18)

fourtex | A TeX environment for MS-Windows32.
Includes spell checker, etc, all controled from a toolbar that can sit on top of your favourite editor. See also winshell
| license: unknown version: 5.0beta4 (1998/11/21)

fp | No caption.
Provides an extensive collection of arithmetic operations for fixed point real numbers of high precision.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

fptex | TeX for Winodws32.
A dsitribution of TeX based on web2c and teTeX using InstallShield for installation.
| license: unknown version: 0.3 beta5 (1999/04/2)

frankenbundle | No caption.

Develop and distribute groups of LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibstyles. Frankenbundle allows an author to maintain and distribute a bundle of one or more LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibliography styles, their documentation, and any support files with a high degree of sophistication, consistency, and convenience both for the author and their end users, who will receive the bundle in a form easy to understand and use. The author using Frankenbundle needs a Unix-like environment, GNU Make and a rudimentary understanding of Makefiles. The end user does not need Make. See also abbrevs achicago blkcntrl compsci lips moredefs relsize slemph titles url verbatim

| license: pd version: 1.9 1999/03/08 (1999/03/10)

frankenstein | A collection of LaTeX packages.
Formerly known as monster (an obsolete, 8+3-compliant name), Frankenstein is a bundle of LaTeX packages serving various purposes and a BibTeX bibliography style. Descriptions are given under the individual packages: abbrevs , achicago package , achicago bibstyle , attrib , bits , blkcntrl , compsci , dialogue , drama , includex , lips , moredefs , newclude , slemph , titles .
| license: gpl (1999/03/10)

freefonts | A collection of fonts distributed with the GIMP.
| license: unknown (1998/09/10)

freetype | A free, full-featured TrueType rasterizer library.
See also ttf2tfm
| license: unknown version: 1.2 (1999/01/2)

french | Style for French typography.
| license: nosell (1999/03/03)

fribrief | A LaTeX class for writing letters.
| license: unknown (1998/01/20)

ftetx | No caption.
A TeX package for FTE (FTE = Folding Text Editor by Marko Macek) Adds a TeX menu system for FTE. Changes syntax highlighting for FTE's TeX-Mode. Runs TeX, dvi-drivers, ispell, etc., from FTE. Calls LaTeX help files from FTE. It is preconfigured for emTeX .
| license: unknown (1998/02/24)

ftn | No caption.
LaTeX document-style option to make footnotes available in any environment, except inside floats. See also footmisc
| license: unknown (1996/09/10)

ftnright | Footnotes in two column documents.
See also endnotes fnpara footmisc
| license: lppl (1999/03/03)

fullblck | No caption.
Used with the letter documentclass to set the letter in a fullblock style (everything at the left margin).
| license: unknown (1998/11/18)

fullpict | Full page pictures.
| license: unknown (1999/02/18)

fundus | Providing LaTeX access to various font families.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

funnelweb | No caption.
A `Literate Programming' tool, which produces documentation for programs in TeX or LaTeX.
| license: lppl (1999/03/03)

futhark | Fonts for the Older Futhark script.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)