Macros and packages
List of packages and macros
General LaTeX packages
- Base
- Graphics
- Tools
- MDWTools (Mark Wooding)
- at
- cmtt
(defines a special encoding for the Computer Modern Typewriter font,
so that documents can take advantage of its ASCII characters without
resorting to verbatim text).
- doafter (with Peter Schmitt)
- footnote
(provides some commands for handling footnotes slightly better than
LaTeX usually does).
- mdwlist
- mdwmath
- mdwtab & mathenv
- sverb
- syntax
- Easy (Enrico Bertolazzi)
- easybmat
(for writing block matrices with equal column widths or equal row heights or
both)
- easyeqn
(simplifies writing of equations)
- easymat
(for writing block matrices)
- easytable
(for writing tables)
- easyvector
(provides C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices)
- a4 (Johannes Braams & Nico Poppelier)
-
algorithms (Peter Williams) (7 april 1996)
- calc (Kresten Krab Thorup & Frank Jensen)
- caption (Harald Axel Sommerfeldt) (1995/04/05)
- caption2 (Harald Axel Sommerfeldt) (1995/10/09)
- ccaption (Peter Wilson) (1998) (for continuation caption in multi-part tables)
- chemtex
- cmdtrack (Michael Downes) (Mar 1999) (keep track of the commands you define)
- crop (writes cropmarks on the page) (Melchior Franz) (7 Dec 1998)
- draftcopy (Jürgen Vollmer) (October 16, 1995, Version 2.3)
- epigraph (Peter Wilson) (1998) (epigraphs made easy)
- eurofont (Rowland McDonnell) (1998) (picks up an euro symbol from the various fonts installed)
- fancybox (Timothy Van Zandt)
- fancyhdr : Page layout in LaTeX (Piet van Oostrum) (June 6, 1996)
- fancyheadings : Page headers and footers in LaTeX (Piet van Oostrum) (October 11, 1994)
- fancyvrb (does pretty much
everything you ever thought you might want by way of verbatim
typesetting)
- fvrb-ex (Example environments
with the fancyvrb package)
- float (An Improved Environment for Floats) (Anselm Lingnau) (1995/03/29)
- floatflt (Mats Dahlgren) (1996/02/27) (example)
- footbib
(make bibliographic references appear as footnotes) (Eric Domenjoud)
- footmisc - a portmanteau package for customising footnotes in LaTeX2e (Robin Fairbairns)
- geometry (Hideo Umeki)
- hvdashln (Nakashima) (16 nov 1992)
- hyperref (manual) (test file)
- hyphenat (to suppress all hyphenation).
- ibm-res
(for preparing resumes).
- index (David M. Jones)
- Indexing citations with indxcite (James Ashton) (May 1996)
- lastpage (Jeff Goldberg) (Jul 1994) (gives the number of pages in a document)
- layouts (Peter Wilson) (1998) (to help you change a document layout). See the user manual.
- lettrine (Daniel Flipo)
(for typesetting of "lettrines")
- lineno (Stefan Böttcher) (1998) (A LaTeX style option to attach Line numbers on paragraphs). See the user manual.
- listings (Carsten Heinz)
- minitoc (Jean-Pierre Drucbert)
- multido (Timothy Van Zandt)
- nomencl (version 2.1) (Boris Veytsman) (10 january 1996)
- ntheorem (Wolfgang May and Andreas Schlechte) (Dec 1998) (easy definition of customized theorems)
- paralist (Bernd Schandl) (Mar 1999) (personalizing your lists environments)
- poster (Timothy Van Zandt)
- Making Posters with LaTeX - Big
Fonts on Big Pages (Harry Payne) (June 4, 1992).
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packages and macros
described in this document.
- program (Martin Ward) (1991)
- revnum (provides a
reverse-enumerate environment, where all \item's are numbered backwards)
- sectsty
(Rowland McDonnell) (help change the style of any or all of LaTeX's
sectional headers in the article, book, or report classes)
- semantic (Peter Møller Neergaard) (January 1996)
- shortlst (Mogens Lemvig Hansen) (1998) (for compact list environments)
- sidecap (Rolf Niepraschk and Hubert Gäßlein) (1998) (writes captions sideways)
- soul (Melchior Franz) (8 Dec 1998) (underlines, spaces letters...)
- subeqnarray (Johannes Braams)
- subfigure (Steven Douglas Cochran)
- supertabular (Johannes Braams & Theo Jurriens)
- Tabbing
(offers a variant of the tabbing environment which allows accented letters)
- textpos (absolute positioning
of text on the page)
- titlesec (Javier Bezos) (August 1998)
(Changes the sectioning format of a document in a straightforward way.)
- typehtml (David Carlisle)
- vdm (Mario Wolczko & David Carlisle)
- verse (Italian description by Fabiano
Busdraghi, 2002)
- xtab (Peter Wilson) (1998) (for long tables)
- yfonts
(Walter Schmidt) (LaTeX support package for the old german fonts) (ps example)
Other graphics packages
Other languages
AMSLaTeX
- amsbsy (version 1.2, 1995/01/20) (Frank Mittelbach, Rainer Schoepf, Michael Downes)
- amscd (version 1.2a, 1995/02/01) (Frank Mittelbach, Rainer Schoepf, Michael Downes)
- amsdtx (The amsldoc and amsdtx document classes) (Version 1.2b, 1995/02/23) (Michael Downes)
- amsgen (version 1.2a, 1995/02/01) (Michael Downes)
- amsintx (version 0.9, 1995/01/27) (Michael Downes)
- amsldoc
(AMS-LaTeX version 1.2 User's Guide) (November 1996)
- amsmath (Version 1.2b, 1995/02/23) (Frank Mittelbach, Rainer Schoepf, Michael Downes, David M. Jones)
- amsopn (version 1.2a, 1995/02/20) (Michael Downes)
- amstext (version 1.2, 1995/01/25) (Frank Mittelbach, Rainer Schoepf)
- amsxtra (version 1.2a, 1995/02/23) (Michael Downes)
- diff12 (Differences between AMS-LaTeX version 1.1 and AMS-LaTeX version 1.2) (January 1995) (Michael Downes)
- subeqn (tests)
- technote (Technical notes on AMS-LaTeX version 1.2) (December 1994) (Michael Downes)
- testmath (Sample Paper for the amsmath Package) (January 1995)
- Getting up and running with AMS-LaTeX (Philip S. Hirschhorn) (december 16, 1992) (22 pages)
Packages for journals
Packages for Music
- musictex * (Daniel
Taupin)
- MusiXTeX * (Daniel Taupin, Ross Mitchell & Andreas Egler)
- For pointers on music information, see also in misc
TeX macros
WARNING: all the references marked with a star (*) correspond to macros
and not to packages. To load macros, use \input instead
of \usepackage.
Last modified: 10 May 2004