Topic Index by Juergen Fenn
Last modified: Saturday 12 July 2003
Note. Every systematical order is arbitrary in some way or another. This is why entries may appear in more than one place. The following order generally tries to keep to that of the "LaTeX Companion". This is a work in progress, so suggestions are welcome.
Note. There are some TeX ressources online mostly outside CTAN
that should be mentioned first.
A comprehensive commented reference of the commands available
both in LaTeX and the most popular packages can be found at the tex-refs
project.
LaTeX Help is available online as well as help for Plain TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX,
MakeIndex, and SliTeX.
There are online
tutorials on TeX by TUG India as well as Peter Flynn's
Beginner's Introduction. German-speaking beginners should take a
look at Mark Trettin's l2tabu.
For practical hints on how to use LaTeX in general as well as on particular packages refer to the "Frequently Asked Questions" lists of local TeX User Groups available on the WWW in Czech / Slowak, English, French, German, Polish, Spanish, or on CTAN:
Note. These class files provide an alternative to the
usual LaTeX article, report,
or book classes. They are used to change document
layout in general and they usually provide
some special features, as well. You should check the class file
documentation first to make shure whether you can use options or
commands that are part of the respective package before considering
the use of one of the packages listed below.
There are some alternatives to
letter.cls, too, for writing letters and faxes.
There are also classes for typesetting theses and
papers for scientific journals. Some more classes which also might
be of interest to general users of TeX are listed under
Science, such as technical
reference manuals, or law.
Note. There are some packages for working on critical editions for those interested in the Humanities.
Note. There are packages for working on critical editions.
Note. See also packages for floats.
There are guides to typesetting tables.
Note. There are packages for colour and shading in general.
Note. For PostScript Type 1 or Type 3 fonts see
PostScript Support. On font selection also see
Postscript support and
Creating PDF Documents.
This section also lists packages that make selecting fonts easier.
These are packages for working with MetaFont as well as the fonts themselves.
Note. For linking documents by crossreferences use xr.
Note. Try the parallel package for typesetting bilingual versions of a text side by side in two columns. There are packages for typesetting critical editions too.
Package cstug
Note. For typesetting ancient Greek use the babel package with the option polutonikogreek. See "Humanities" for more references on the Humanities.
Note. The koma-script bundle provides a letter class of its own called scrlttr2.
Note. The koma-script bundle provides scraddr that goes with the scrlttr2 letter class for using address data in letters.
There are some packges for making the Euro currency symbol (€) work in LaTeX.
Note. For typesetting arrays see also the packages for Tables.
Note. Also see Technical Reference Manuals.
Note. For typesetting ancient Greek use the
babel package
with the option polutonikogreek.
See Greek for more references to the Greek language.
There are packages for typesetting
Poetry and Drama.
Note. There are some packages for working on footnotes and endnotes as well as for numbering lines and paragraphs, and multilingual support.
Note. There are more packages for adding some colour to tables.
There are some more packages for those interested in the Humanities, including work on critical editions.
Note. texlive provides tetex for Unices (including Mac OS X) and fptex for Windows.
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