### by Graham Williams

##### Section P CTAN Edition

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

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- view the directory on CTAN
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- 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.

pacioli | Fonts designed by Fra Luca de Pacioli in 1497.
The font is uppercase letters together with punctuation and some analphabetics; no lowercase or digits.
| license: lppl (1999/03/26)

pagedraw | No caption.
A free vector-graphics program capable of creating EPS files suitable for inclusion in TeX documents.
| license: unknown (1 Apr 1991)

pageno | No caption.
A LaTeX package that can re-define the plain page style under the control of options, so you can have page numbers: at the top or bottom of the page; in the inside corner, outside corner, or in the middle. It was inspired by Axel Sommerfeldt's rplain package.
| license: unknown (1998/09/23)

pagesel | Selecting shipout pages.
Selects single pages, page areas, odd, or even pages for output.
| license: lppl version: 1.1 1999/04/13 (1999/04/14)

pandey | Support for the Bengali language.
See also arosgn
| license: unknown (1998/09/30)

pandora | The Pandora font family.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

paper | No caption.
A class derived from article, tuned for producing papers for journals. Introduces new layout options and font commands for sections/parts. Defines a new keywords environment, and subtitle and institution commands for the title section. New commands for revisions. And more.
| license: unknown version: 1g (1996/05/20)

paralist | Enumerate and itemize within paragraphs.
Provides enumerate and itemize environments that can be used within paragraphs and format the items either as running text or as separate paragraphs with a preceding number or symbol.
| license: lppl version: 1.6 (1999/03/29)

parallel | No caption.
Provides a parallel environment which allows two columns of text to be typeset. Useful for typesetting two languages side-by-side.
| license: unknown (1 Apr 1991)

patch | Macros for package management.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

path | A LaTeX package to break long strings at convenient places.
The strings might be directory paths, email addresses, URLs, etc.
| license: pd (1999/03/03)

pawpict | Using graphics from PAW.
Support for the easy inclusion of graphics made by PAW (Physics Analysis Workstation). You need to have PAW installed on your system to benefit from this package. This package is now obsolete and will not be supported anymore.
| license: gpl version: 1998/12/24, v1.0 (1999/03/03)

pb-diagram | A diagram package using LAMSTeX or Xy-pic fonts.
| license: dfsg version: 5.0 (1998/11/30)

pbmtogf | Convert pbm images to gf font files.
A package to convert a pbm (portable bitmap) file to a gf (font) and a pl (perl) file, effectively creating a font from the bitmap. The font can then be used in any TeX/LaTeX files.
| license: unknown (1999/03/24)

pcfonts | Support for Hebrew.
| license: unknown (1996/10/21)

pdcmac | Damian Cugley's macro tools.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

pdfscreen | Support screen-based document design.
An extension of the hyperref package to provide a screen-based document design. This package helps to generate pdf documents that are readable on screen and will fit the screen's aspect ratio. Also it can be used with various options to produce regular print versions of the same document without any extra effort. See also hyperref
| license: lppl version: 0.6 (1999/05/20)

pdftex | Generate PDF from TeX directly.
An extension of TeX which directly generates PDF documents instead of DVI. This is under development and regarded as beta software. See also hyperref
| license: unknown version: 0.1 (1998/08/13)

pdftex-djgpp | No caption.
A PDFTeX executable compiled with DJGPP v.2.01, to be used with the DJGPP v.2.01 port of web2c for MS-DOS and MS-Windows 95.
| license: unknown (1998/02/23)

permute | No caption.
A package for symmetric groups, allowing you to input, output, and calculate with them.
| license: unknown (1998/12/28)

pf2afm | No caption.
A PostScript program for geberating missing AFM files from PFB/PFA and (optionally) PFM font files.
| license: pd version: 1.0 (1999/03/03)

phoenician | Fonts for the semitic script in use from about 1600 BC.
This font formed the basis for all the world's alphabets. Mirrored forms are provided for typesetting either left-to-right or right-to-left (as the Phoenicians did)
| license: lppl (1999/03/26)

phonetic | MetaFont Phonetic fonts, based on Computer Modern.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

phppcf | No caption.
A BibTeX style derived from apalike with author names in all caps.
| license: unknown (1996/06/14)

physe | PHYSE format.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

phyzzx | A TeX format for physicists.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

picinpar | Insert pictures into paragraphs.
(NOTE: Piet van Oostrum does not recommend this package. Picins is recommended instead.)
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

picins | Insert pictures into paragraphs.
| license: unknown (1 Apr 1991)

pictex | Picture drawing macros for (\La)TeX.
Picture drawing macros for (\La)TeX. See also m-pictex qfig epic
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

piff | Macro tools by Mike Piff.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

piq | No caption.
MetaFont package for the Klingon language with okuda orthography.
| license: unknown (1996/11/17)

pkfind | No caption.
The TDS standard specifies that pk and gf files contain \special strings to identify the contents of pk and gf files. Pkfind is a variant of the GNU find utility modified to understand those specials, and to act on them in some cases. For example, it can be used to delete all pk files created by gsftopk from a subdirectory tree.
| license: dfsg version: 1.0 (1999/03/03)

pl | Literate Programming for Prolog with LaTeX.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

plain | Make plain TeX files LaTeXable.
| license: lppl (1999/04/15)

plainmisc | Miscellaneous useful macros for plain TeX.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

plaintex | Basic Plain TeX macros.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

plari | A document class for typesetting stageplay scripts.
| license: dfsg (1998/11/6)

platex | No caption.
Tools to typeset documents in Polish using LaTeX2e with Polish fonts (so-called PL fonts), EC fonts, and CM fonts.
| license: unknown version: v1.01 (1999/03/03)

play | Typeset plays.
A class and style file that supports the typesetting of plays, including options for line numbering.
| license: lppl (1999/03/28)

plcalendar | Plain macros for making nice calendars.
See also calendar kalendar termcal
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

plfonts | Polish fonts.
| license: pd (1999/03/03)

plgraph | No caption.
LaTeX graphics package with wrapper to allow it to be used with generic plain TeX.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

pl-mf | Polish extension of Computer Modern fonts in MF sources.
See also plpsfont
| license: unknown (1998/02/08)

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

plpsfont | No caption.
Polish extension of Computer Modern fonts, PL fonts in PostScript format. Use the same tfm files as for pk fonts generated by MetaFont. See also pl-mf
| license: pd version: 1.02 (1999/03/03)

pl-qx | LaTeX support for extra Polish fonts (Antyktor etc.).
LaTeX support for extra Polish fonts (Antyktor etc.).
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

pmcstex | No caption.
A macro package that implements many (em)TeX related features for the OS/2 EPM editor. A menu item is added to the EPM menu, a new toolbar is provided, and hotkeys for some (\La)TeX commands are defined.
| license: unknown (1997/11/27)

pmgraph | No caption.
A set of extensions to LaTeX picture environment, including a wider range of vectors, and a lot more box frame styles.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

poligraf | No caption.
Page preparation for prepress, color separation, crop-marks, color and gray scale bars, booklet preparation, etc.
| license: pd (1999/03/03)

polish | General TeX and LaTeX documentation in Polish.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

polyglot | A package for LaTeX2e multilingual support.
| license: lppl version: 1.1 (1999/05/13)

ppchtex | A package that can be used to typeset chemical formulas.
The package is a separate module of the context macro package for TeX (context is a full featured, parameter driven macro package, which fully supports advanced interactive documents).
| license: unknown (1997/01/15)

prelim2e | Allows the marking of preliminary versions of a document.
| license: lppl version: 1.21 (1999/03/03)

prettyref | No caption.
Additional functionality for the LaTeX2e label--reference mechanism allowing the ``preformat'' of all types of labels. This package is compatible with hyperref and other packages.
| license: unknown version: 3.0 (1998/07/29)

progkeys | No caption.
The file `programs.sty' is intended to allow a parameterized way of typesetting programs with TeX/LaTeX commands inside. The file `keywords.sty' allows definition and use of sets of keywords that will be typeset with different fonts, according to the wish of the user.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

program | Typesetting programs and algorithms.
| license: dfsg (1999/03/03)

proofs | Macros for building proof trees.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

protex | Literate programming package.
| license: lppl (1999/03/26)

prv | No caption.
A Perl script for compiling, previewing, and printing LaTeX documents. Derived from LatexMk version 2.0.
| license: unknown version: 0.5 (1998/12/11)

ps_conv | No caption.
A PostScript program for converting one-page PostScript files into and EPS (encapsulated PostScript) files acceptable by CorelDRAW!(R), Adobe Illustrator(TM) and Fontographer(R).
| license: pd (1999/03/03)

ps_view | No caption.
A PostScript preamble providing an interactive environement for fast previewing of PostScript documents with GhostScript , enabling scaling rotation, grids, printing specified pages, on-line help etc.
| license: pd version: 2.01 (1999/03/03)

psboxit | Enables one to put a PostScript drawing behind a TeX box.
The drawing is parameterised by the position and the size of the TeX box.
| license: unknown (1 Apr 1991)

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

psfixbb | No caption.
Computes the BoundingBox of a PostScript file settin the BoundingBox comment in the file accordingly, using GhostScript , pnmfile and pnmcrop.
| license: unknown (1998/06/23)

psfont | No caption.
Intended as a replacement for psfonts of psnfss , psfont uses one file for redefining all default fonts instead of one file for each font. It also contains all parts of psfonts.dtx which are not covered by this general concept (i.e., the pifonts, mathptm and two fd-files for Adobe Symbol and Adobe Zapf Dingbats). This file is specific to PostScript fonts. See also psfonts psnfss
| license: gpl (1999/03/03)

psfonts | PostScript fonts for use with TeX and LaTeX.
| license: unknown (1997/05/13)

psfrag | No caption.

Allows LaTeX constructions (equations, picture environments, etc.) to be precisely superimposed over Encapsulated PostScript figures, using your own favorite drawing tool to create an EPS figure and placing simple text ``tags'' where each replacement is to be placed, with PSfrag automatically removing these tags from the figure and replacing them with a user specified LaTeX construction, properly aligned, scaled, and/or rotated.

| license: dfsg version: 3.04 (1998/06/24)

psizzl | A TeX format from SLAC.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

pslatex | Use PostScript fonts by default.

A small package that makes LaTeX default to `standard' PostScript fonts. It is basically a merger of the times and mathptm styles from the psnfss suite of packages. You must have installed standard LaTeX and the psnfss PostScript fonts to use this package. The main novel feature is that the pslatex package tries to compensate for the visual differences between the Adobe fonts by scaling Helvetica by 90\%, and `condensing' Courier (i.e. scaling horizontally) by 85\%. The package is supplied with a (unix) shell file for a `pslatex' command that allows standard LaTeX documents to be processed, without needing to edit the file.

| license: lppl (1999/04/12)

psmerge | No caption.
Concatenate PostScript files as long as they have been generated by the same program (e.g., generated by dvips ).
| license: unknown (1996/11/1)

psnfss | No caption.
Font definition files, macros and font metrics for common PostScript fonts.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

psnfssx | No caption.
Extra styles and encodings for PS fonts, including Y&Y encoding support.
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)

pspicture | PostScript picture support.
Replacement for core LaTeX picture macros to use PostScript \special commands.
| license: lppl (1999/04/12)

pstoedit | Translate PostScript and PDF to other formats.
Other formats include tgif, FrameMaker mif, XFig's fig, pdf, gnuplot, MS-Windows wmf, CAD exchange format dxf, LightWave 3D lwo, RenderMan rib, Real3D rib, Java applet, and Idraw format.
| license: unknown version: 2.60 (1999/03/30)

pstotext | Extract ASCII from PostScript and PDF.
A free Unix program that extracts ASCII text from PostScript and PDF (Acrobat) files. pstotext uses GhostScript , but does a more careful job with kerned characters and nonstandard font encodings than Ghostscript's ps2ascii utility.
| license: dfsg (1996/10/31)

pstricks | No caption.

An extensive collection of PostScript macros that is compatible with most TeX macro packages, including Plain TeX, LaTeX, AMS-TeX, and AMS-LaTeX. Included are macros for color, graphics, pie charts, rotation, trees and overlays. It has many special features, including: a wide variety of graphics (picture drawing) macros, with a flexible interface and with color support. There are macros for coloring or shading the cells of tables. See also color colortab fancybox shading

| license: unknown (1996/05/30)

psutils | No caption.
Utilities for manipulating PostScript documents, including page selection and rearrangement, resizing the page, arrangement into signatures for booklet printing, and page merging for n-up printing. Utilities include psbook, psselect, pstops, psnup, psresize, epsffit.
| license: unknown (1 Apr 1991)

punk | Donald Knuth's punk font.
Donald Knuth's punk font
| license: unknown (1999/03/03)