### by Graham Williams

##### Section L CTAN Edition

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

labels | No caption.
Support for printing sheets of sticky labels (but could also be used for business cards). The number of rows and columns of labels, and their size, can be changed.
| license: dfsg (1999/03/03)

lamstex | A merge of the best in AMS-TeX and LaTeX.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

lastpage | No caption.
Reference the number of pages in your LaTeX document (as in a page footer that says: Page N of M).
| license: nosell (1999/03/03)

lated | No caption.
A graphical editor for drawings in the LaTeX ``picture'' environment. It runs under MS-DOS and MS-Windows. The distribution includes full sources, including LaTeX source for its documentation.
| license: unknown version: 1.1 (1998/02/11)

latex | No caption.
LaTeX is a (and probably the most) popular macro package for TeX, providing many basic document formating commands extended by many of the packages included in this current list. See also latex2e latex209
| license: lppl version: June 98 (1998/07/2)

latex209 | The pre-1993 LaTeX, now no longer supported.
See also latex2e latex
| license: lppl (1996/07/4)

latex2e | Documentation on LaTeX2e in OS/2 hypertext format and html.
See also latex latex209
| license: lppl (1996/07/4)

latex2html | No caption.
A Perl program that translates LaTeX into HTML (HyperText Markup Language) creating separate HTML files corresponding to each unit (e.g., section) of the document. See also ltoh hyperlatex tth techexplorer
| license: lppl (1996/07/8)

latex2man | No caption.
A tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a man-page format, HTML, or TexInfo.
| license: lppl version: 1.6 (1998/09/9)

latex2rtf | No caption.
Translates LaTeX text into RTF (Rich Text Format as used by Microsoft Word). See also tex2rtf
| license: lppl (1998/11/17)

latexcad | A CAD drawing package.
| license: lppl (1998/03/20)

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

latexmk | No caption.
An excellent utility for Unix which deals with the task of running LaTeX the appropriate number of times to ensure cross-references, etc., are completely defined. Also supports printing and viewing. See also latexn prv
| license: lppl version: 2.0 (1997/01/12)

latexn | No caption.
A csh script to run LaTeX as many times as needed (and hopefully no more) on a given file to resolve cross references, and to ensure that the table of contents and index (if any) are up-to-date. See also latexmk
| license: lppl (1997/11/27)

latin2jk | No caption.
A definition file for the inputenc package, where all characters from IS=-8859-2 (Latin-2) are loaded as text characters. This allows verbatim setting of Latin-2 encoded files.
| license: unknown (1997/10/7)

layout | Produces an overview of the layout of the current document.
See also layouts
| license: unknown version: 1.2b (1998/08/13)

layouts | Display various elements of a document's layout.
This includes: text positioning on a page; disposition of floats; layout of paragraphs, lists, footnotes, table of contents, and sectional headings; font boxes. Facilities are provided for a document designer to experiment with the layout parameters. See also layout isostds
| license: lppl (1999/04/15)

leaflet | No caption.
A document class to create small hand-outs that fit on a single sheet of paper which is then folded twice, with a script to rearrange pages so that they print correctly (on a PostScript printer) on a single sheet.
| license: unknown (1998/09/30)

leftidx | Left subscripts and superscripts in math mode.
These subscripts and superscripts are automatically raised for better fitting to the symbol they belong to.
| license: lppl (1999/03/29)

letter | The standard LaTeX2e letter document class.
| license: unknown (1998/11/6)

letterspacing | Letter spacing.
| license: lppl (1999/04/8)

lettrine | Typeset dropped capitals.
Supports various dropped capitals styles, typically those described in the French typographic books.
| license: lppl version: 1.0 (1999/04/2)

levy | Macros for using Silvio Levy's Greek fonts.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

lexikon | Implements commands to generate a two language dictionary.
| license: lppl (1998/04/1)

lgreek | Macros for using Silvio Levy's Greek fonts.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

lgrind | No caption.
Prepares various programming language source code (e.g., C, C plus plus, Pascal, BASIC, Modula-2, Fortran, RATFOR Yacc, PostScript, Prolog, MLisp, Icon, LaTeX, Perl, CSH Bourne Shell, assembler, 68000 assembler, asm68 VMS assembler, ISP, LDL, Linda, MODEL, MatLab, Russell) for pretty-printing within LaTeX. See also lgrind-win32
| license: unknown version: 3.51 (1998/08/5)

lgrind-win32 | No caption.
A version of lgrind for MS-Windows32 systems.
| license: unknown (1998/03/24)

lh | No caption.
The lh fonts for the `T2'/X2 encodings (for cyrillic languages).
| license: unknown (1998/10/2)

lhcyr | No caption.
A collection of three LeTeX 2e styles intended for typesetting Russian and bilingual English-Russian documents: lhcyralt, lhcyrkoi, and lhcyrwin.
| license: unknown (1999/01/21)

lilypond | Support for music notation.
GNU LilyPond is a program which converts music definition files into visual or auditive output. LilyPond can typeset formatted sheet music to a TeX file and (mechanical) performances to MIDI files.
| license: gpl version: 1.0.17 (1999/03/03)

lineno | No caption.
Adds line numbers to selected paragraphs with reference possible through the LaTeX \ref and \pageref cross reference mechanism. See also numline
| license: lppl version: 2.04 (1999/03/03)

linguex | No caption.
A package to facilitate the formatting of linguist examples, automatically taking care of example numbering, indentations, indexed brackets, and the ``*'' in grammaticality judgments.
| license: unknown (1998/06/1)

lintex | No caption.
A C program that removes auxilliary TeX and LaTeX files that are usually not needed after a run (log, aux, dvi, files), and only if their modification time is more recent than the source.
| license: unknown version: 1.04 (1998/06/16)

lips | Text ellipses in LaTeX.
A LaTeX package defining \lips, which generates text ellipses that are closer to what The Chicago Manual of Style suggests than what \dots produces. It does the right thing in most circumstances, and so is easier to use, as well.
| license: gpl version: 2 1999/02/28 (1999/03/10)

listings | A package for typesetting listings using LaTeX2e.
The source code is read directly by TeX. Keywords, comments and strings can be typeset using different styles, e.g., default is bold for keywords, italic for comments and no special style for strings.
| license: unknown version: 0.19 (1998/11/11)

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

llncs | No caption.
Document style for submissions to Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
| license: unknown (1996/10/4)

localloc | Macros for localizing TeX register allocations.
| license: dfsg (1999/03/03)

logic | A MetaFont font for drawing logic diagrams.
| license: unknown (1997/05/3)

logo-ps | PostScript fonts for the logo font.
| license: unknown (1998/07/25)

lollipop | A new generation format.
| license: nocommercial (1999/03/03)

longtable | Support for tables longer than a page.
Generally easier to use and more flexible than supertabular . See also supertabular
| license: lppl (1999/03/03)

losymbol | Defines a lot of symbol macros.
| license: unknown (1 Apr 1991)

lscape | Place selected parts of a document in landscape.
Modifies the margins and rotates the page contents but not the page number. Useful, for example, with large multipage tables, and is compatible with longtable and supertabular . See also rotating
| license: lppl version: 3.0 (1999/03/03)

lshort-english | A (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e.
A (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. See also gentl-gr lshort-finnish lshort-french lshort-german lshort-mongolian lshort-russian lshort-spanish
| license: dfsg version: 3.7 (1999/04/16)

lshort-finnish | No caption.
Finnish version of A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e with an emphasis on Finnish typesetting rules.
| license: unknown (1999/01/21)

lshort-french | No caption.
French version of A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e.
| license: unknown (1998/02/5)

lshort-german | German version of A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e.
| license: dfsg (1999/05/18)

lshort-mongolian | No caption.
Mongolian version of A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e .
| license: unknown (1999/01/30)

lshort-polish | Introduction to LaTeX in Polish.
This is the Polish translation of A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e .
| license: unknown (1999/02/25)

lshort-russian | No caption.
Russian version of A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e.
| license: unknown (1998/10/13)

lshort-spanish | No caption.
Spanish version of A Short Introduction to LaTeX2e.
| license: unknown (1999/01/21)

ltablex | No caption.
Modifies the tabularx environment to combine the features of the tabularx package (auto-sized columns in a fixed width table) with those of the longtable package (multi-page tables).
| license: unknown (1 Apr 1991)

ltnews | The latest LaTeX news.
| license: unknown (1999/03/25)

ltoh | A converter from LaTeX to HTML.
See also latex2html tth ltx2x techexplorer
| license: unknown version: 98a (1998/04/8)

ltx2rtf | A conversion program from LaTeX to Rich Text Format.
| license: unknown (1998/12/28)

ltx2x | No caption.
A program to replace LaTeX commands by user-defined characters. Typical uses are for deTeXing and pretty-printing, or for replacing LaTeX commands by SGML, HTML, and RTF tags, etc. See also latex2html tth ltoh techexplorer
| license: pd (1999/03/03)

ltxbase | The core LaTeX.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

ltxdoc | Class for documented LaTeX2e classes.
| license: unknown (1 Apr 1991)

ltxinput | No caption.
An MSDOS utility which recursively searches a file for input (and include) statements, writing a list of files which are input to stdout and to a batch file which sets an environmental variable LTXINPUT to point to this filelist. The C source, MSDOS binary, documentation and test files are included in the distribution.
| license: unknown (1996/11/26)

ltxmisc | Miscellaneous LaTeX styles.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

ltxsrc | The core source files for LaTeX2e.
| license: unknown (1996/05/16)

ltxtable | Longtable and tabularx merge.
See also longtable tabularx
| license: lppl version: 1995/12/11 v0.2 (1999/04/15)

lucida | Package to make Lucida Bright fonts usable with LaTeX.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

lucold | No caption.

A package to switch the rendering of all the digits to the so-called ``old-style'' numbers, when using Lucida fonts. The switch affects all digits in text mode, or all digits in text and math mode. It works both for normal weight and boldface text and math; since the boldface old-style digits are in the ``Lucida Expert'' font set, you need it for the boldface digits. Includes a set of AWK programs used to automatically build fd, tfm and vf files from the existing Lucida PSNFSS distribution, and that may easily changed for the generation of different virtual files for whatever font.

| license: unknown (1998/02/4)

lw35nfsx | No caption.

LaTeX psnfss support for the 35 printer resident PostScript fonts using ly1 text font encoding, employing the Berry names. This is similar to the existing lw35nfss.zip support using T1/TS1, but much simpler (lw35nfsx.zip is about 150k bytes while lw35nfss.zip is about 800 kbytes). It includes needed additions to dvips 's psfonts.map, TFM metric files for TeX, FD font definition files, and STY files for LaTeX.

| license: unknown (1998/07/28)

ly1 | Support for LY1 LaTeX encoding, i.e.
the Y&Y texnansi (TeX 'n ANSI) encoding.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)