The TeX Catalogue Online

by Graham Williams

Alphabetically Indexed CTAN Edition


Section B


babel

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Multilingual support for LaTeX. Latest recorded version is 3.6l. (1999/04/4)


backgammon

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Style for typesetting backgammon boards. (1999/03/03)


bakoma

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A TeX package intended for preparing Electronic Publications. The system works under MS-Windows 3.1/9X/NT (with ATM installed). The system includes a complete extendable GUI (Text editor, DVI Viewer, Help system), an updated version of the BaKoMa Fonts Collection, the TeX processor with friends (BibTeX MakeIndex, MetaPost, DVIPS, DVICopy), a standard compliant TDS, and an installation program. The system supports the use of scalable fonts (PostScript and Type 3 font formats) and the importing of PostScript graphics into documents. The system supports generation of PDF and printing on any printer supported by a driver under MS-Windows. The system efficiently supports multiple TEXMF trees. Latest recorded version is 2.0. See also miktex. (1999/03/03)


bakoma-fonts

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Computer Modern and AMS fonts in PostScript Type1 form. (1996/12/13)


bar

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Provides the barenv environment for bar charts.


barcode2

Included in the TeXLive distribution in fonts3

No description available. (1999/03/03)


barcodes

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Fonts for making barcodes. See also code128, and ean. (1999/03/03)


barr

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Diagram macros by Michael Barr. (1999/03/03)


base

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Definitive source of Plain TeX on CTAN. This archive is mirroed directly from labrea:/tex/lib/ (1999/03/26)


bbding

Visit CTAN:fonts/bbding/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution in fonts3

Symbol font including many Zapf dingbats. An NFSS-interface to the symbol font bbding containing many of the Zapf dingbats fonts. (1999/04/16)


bbm

Visit CTAN:fonts/cm/bbm/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution in fonts3

Blackboard variant fonts for Computer Modern, with LaTeX support. See also blackboard, doublestroke, and dblfont. (1999/03/03)


bbold

Included in the TeXLive distribution in fonts3

Sans serif blackboard bold. A geometric sans serif blackboard bold font, for use in mathematics (1999/03/26)


beebe

Included in the TeXLive distribution in bibtex2

Nelson Beebe's collection of TeX-related bibliographies and BibTeX style files. (1999/03/03)


belleek

Included in the TeXLive distribution in fonts2

Free replacement for basic MathTime fonts (1999/03/03)


beton

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Typeset a LaTeX2e document with the Concrete fonts designed by Don Knuth and used in his book ``Concrete Mathematics''. See also euler. (1999/03/03)


bez123

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Support for Bezier curves. A package providing additional facilities for drawing linear, cubic, and rational quadratic Bezier curves. The multiply package provides a command for multiplication of a length without numerical overflow. (1999/03/03)


bezos

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Unrelated packages by Javier Bezos: tools for math accents; tensorial indexes; tools for easy entry of Spanish index entries. (1999/03/03)


bibarts

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A package to assist in making bibliographical lists common in the arts. (1999/03/03)


bibdb

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BibTeX bibliography manager fow MS-Windows and MS-DOS. (1999/04/15)


bibindex

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A stand-alone tool for indexing BibTeX documents to be searched using the corresponding biblook tool. (1997/01/12)


biblio

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An extensive collection of BibTeX bibliographies on many topics (linux, java, sas, s-plus, amongst many others) and for many journals (lecture notes in computer science acm, byte, computer, and much, much, more.). Each includes a LaTeX wrapper file to typeset the bibliography. Latest recorded version is 2.07. (1996/10/4)


biblios

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A MS-Windows95 tool that uses the CGI (common gateway interface) protocol so that BibTeX files can be managed remotely using an HTTP-server on the server side and a Web-browser such as Netscape on the client side. (1996/08/16)


biblist

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BibTeX styles by Joachim Schrod. (1999/03/03)


biblook

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A stand-alone tool for searching BibTeX documents which have been indexed by bibindex. Latest recorded version is 2.8. (1997/01/12)


bibsort

Home

Sort a bibliography. Latest recorded version is 0.11. (1996/11/12)


bibtex8bit

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A fully 8-bit adaptation of BibTeX 0.99. (1996/08/19)


bibtool

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Command line manipulation of BibTeX files: Pretty-printing data bases; Syntactic checks with error recovery; Semantic checks. Sorting and merging of data bases; Generation of uniform reference keys according to predefined rules or according to user specification; Selecting references used in one publication which are found by analyzing an aux file; Controlled rewriting of fields utilising regular expressions to specify the rewriting rules; Macro (String) expansion to eliminate the need of extra string definitions; Collecting statistics about one or more data bases. Latest recorded version is 2.41. (1998/02/24)


bibunits

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A style to generate separate bibliographies for different units (parts) of the text (chapters, sections or bibunit-environments). The style will separate the citations of each unit of text into a separate file to be processed by BibTeX. The global bibliography section produced by LaTeX can also appear in the document and citations can be placed in both at the same time. Latest recorded version is dated 1991/09/07. (1997/05/29)


bibweb

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Automatically retrieve bibliography from MathSciNet. A utility to automatically retrieve mathematical bibliographical information, in BibTeX format, from the American Mathematical Society's MathSciNet database. More precisely, it acts as a front-end to BibTeX; it converts any citations that BibTeX can't find into queries to the MathSciNet database, it carries out those queries, and returns the answers in BibTeX format. Included in the package are: the perl script bibweb, documentation (in various formats), and a test file. (1999/03/29)


bidstobibtex

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A tool to take input from a BIDS email message (generated using one of the downloading formats) to BibTeX. (1996/10/21)


bits

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Modular environments in LaTeX. A LaTeX package that provides a programmer's interface for a new idea called a bit, which is like an environment but has a title, author, and other attributes usually only associated with the document environment. Latest recorded version is 1.1 1999/03/01. See also blkcntrl, moredefs, and relsize. (1999/03/10)


bitstrea

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Font metrics, and macro support in LaTeX2e, for the free Bitstream fonts. (1996/05/16)


blackboard

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A demonstration of the various blackboard bold typefaces available for TeX (bbm, bbold, doublestroke, and msbm), including a PostScript file to preview them. (1998/07/9)


blkarray

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Extended array and tabular. A package in its early stages of development which implements an environment, blockarray, that may be used in the same way as the array or tabular environments of standard LaTeX, or their extended versions defined in array.sty. If used in math-mode, blockarray acts like array, otherwise it acts like tabular. The main feature of this style is that it uses a new method of defining column types. (1999/04/15)


blkcntrl

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Block-element hooks in LaTeX. A LaTeX package that inserts hooks into certain block elements and footnotes. Also provides a command to set block quotations one size smaller than the main text. Latest recorded version is 1.1 1999/02/25. See also moredefs, and relsize. (1999/03/10)


blue

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Kees van der Laan's BLUe format, a concise but expressive document preparation system modelled on Knuth's manmac. (1999/03/03)


bluesky

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Computer Modern family in format. (1999/03/03)


bm

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This is a package for accessing bold symbols in math mode. (Similar to the AMS \boldsymbol command, but taking more care over spacing, delimiters etc.). Latest recorded version is 1.0a. (1999/03/03)


booktabs

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Nicer layout of tables. (1999/03/03)


borceux

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Diagram macros by Francois Borceux. (1999/03/03)


bosisio

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A collection of packages including: dblfont; graphfig; mathcmd; mathenv; quotes; sobolev. (1998/05/1)


boxedminipage

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A package for producing boxed minipages. (1998/04/19)


breqn

No description available. (1999/02/22)


bridge

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Macros for typesetting bridge diagrams. (1999/03/03)


brief

Home Included in the teTeX distribution

German private letter class with address boxes for window envelopes, a hook to put a figure or any kind of box in the top right corner, fold-marks (option falt), setting the text in informal \tt (option tt), configurable by a configuration file. See also akletter, dinbrief, envlab, and formlett. (1996/05/30)


brushscr

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BrushScript fonts including pbsi, a Type-1 PostScript font containing BrushScript Italic characters. (1998/06/24)


btool

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Perl and C library interface to BibTeX files. Includes a C library called btparse and a perl library Text::BibTeX. Features include: robust, efficient lexical scanning and parsing of BibTeX files; excellent error detection, reporting, and recovery in the parser; full processing of BibTeX strings (macros expanded, whitespace collapsed, strings concatenated); handles all common entry types (@comment, @preamble, @string, and everything else) with ease, and gives you full access to the contents of all entry types; support for processing author names identically to BibTeX; preliminary support for imposing/enforcing a particular database structure. Latest recorded version is 0.21. (1999/03/03)