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InteresThings on CTAN

– what I find interesting on ctan.org/pkg/

‘→ JF#’ marks packages that Jürgen Fenn in my view should list in his list, somewhere or in a proposed sublist (with a certain existing anchor; see list of links).

You can search for packages on www.ctan.org. You can search there by topics, by authors, by identifiers from alphabetic listings. Alternatively, you can search for them in an “advanced search” form.

Notable single announcements:

Apr 12 2015: doc. (amsthdoc) for amsthm.sty completely rewritten and enhanced, no code change
LaTeX Kernel 2015:
- main announcement 2015-03-31, accounting for e-TeX and Unicode engines seriously (fake release date)
- latexrelease – release emulation, also for others?
- … elocalloc – local allocation macros for LaTeX 2015, new 2015-05-11
- etex.sty from etex-pkg superseded!?
- … don’t load with bigfoot – update
- latex (LaTeX) … bug-fix release
- latex-base 2015-10-03 mainly LuaLaTeX allocating

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Documentation:
- LaTeX:
  - reference cards:
    - latex-veryshortguide 4 pages for A5 card, Peter Flynn
    - latexcheat Winston Chang
  - reference else:
    - latex2e-help-texinfo unofficial reference manual, Karl Berry, Jim Hefferon
    - macros2e Martin Scharrer, new 2011-07-25, lists internal LaTeX2e macros with links to source2e.pdf
  - guides/intros/…?
    - first-latex-doc for absolute newbies, Karl Berry, JH, MPG
    - latex-essential Essential LaTeX, 17 pages, renewed 2015-04-15 after decades! (1989, internal? 2e udate 1994)
    - lshort?
      - lshort-german (l2kurz.pdf, LaTeX 2ε-Kurzbeschreibung) still is short (48 pages)
      - lshort-english (Tobias Oetiker) not so short (157 pages)
    - simplified-latex (simplified-intro.pdf Harvey J. Greenberg), 136 pages
    - latex4wp LaTeX description addressing word processor users
  - symbols:
    - comprehensive list (Scott Pakin; symbols-a4.pdf)
    - maths-symbols (DPC)
  - pointers to other LaTeX documentation:
    - latex-doc-ptr – two PDF pages, Karl Berry, JH
  - special:
    - lualatex-doc (from LaTeX to LuaLaTeX — Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard)
    - l2picfaq German how-to on including graphics with LaTeX
    - George Grätzer’s Short_Course.pdf apparently the full (More) Math into LaTeX, 4th ed., Springer 2007. math-into-latex-4 samples from it.
  - examples:
    - latex-referenz examples from Herbert Vo0’ book ‘LaTeX Referenz’ []
    - latex-tabellen examples from H. Voß’ book ‘Tabellen mit LaTeX’ []
    - titlepages Peter Wilson, 40 samples of title page designs, 2010-07-14
- TeX:
  - TeX for the Impatient
  - TeX by Topic
  - Arno Trautmann’s tex-overview
  - texbuch
- xetexref reference documentation of XeTeX
Boxes:
- adjustbox Martin Scharrer
- bclogo colorful boxes
- collectbox Martin Scharrer, \collectboxcheckenv
- diagbox split table cell diagonally
- ghab decorated frames, Vafa Khaligi, new 2011-10-25
- logbox like \showbox but without stopping
- realbox Martin Scharrer, box macros reading arguments as real box content, new 2011-08-11
- settobox (HO)
- storebox Martin Scharrer, repeated box once only in output, new 2011-09-22
- tcolorbox new 2011-12-11 highlighting colored boxes, maybe two-parted for code/outcome TODO: cf. JF#boxes TODO: cf. examplep etc.
- tram dots frames, Vafa Khaligi, new 2011-10-25
- cf. breakable framed blocks
Curriculum vitae:
- CurVe
- ecv; translation-ecv-de uploaded 2011-09-14
- europeCV / translation-europecv-de
- harnon-cv experience timeline
- moderncv 2010-05-24
- moderntimeline new 2011-09-29
- mycv
- koma-moderncvclassic new 2010-10-17 (uploaded 2010-10-15)
- tucv new 2010-12-07
Graphics:
[ include | time | diagram | 3d | method | else ]
- including, combining with text
  - easyfig include image as figure easily, Martin Scharrer
  - copyrightbox copyright notice close to image, new 2011-12-12
  - fitbox (BV) maximal graphics size, new 2015-08-18
  - gincltex Martin Scharrer new 2011-03-06, \includegraph... for .tex files with graphics code | standalone | adjustbox
  - grffile HO extended file names with graphics
  - lpic LaTeX over graphics, cf. overpic, combinedgraphics?
  - pinlabel
  - SASnRdisplay (LM) new 2011-12-01
  - tikzscale scale TikZ images and PGF plots without scaling text, with \includegraphics, new 2012-11-03
- time-related, scheduling
  - chronology time line, event labels, per day granularity (2010-06-15)
  - cntdwn display clocks and how time is running out, in talks etc. or for tasks (new 2010-08-20)
  - pgfgantt Gantt charts with TikZ (pgf, cf. ctan.org/pkg#p), new 2011-03-10
  - rtsched Gantt charts, based on PSTricks new 2011-09-29
- other types of diagrams
  - bchart bar charts, new 2011-11-22
  - chemfig
  - Circuit Macros (2012-01-14)
  - dot2texi graphs via DOT language
  - forest (linguistic) trees with TikZ, new 2012-11-02
  - modiagram (TikZ) molecular orbitals 2012-01-23
  - pst-sigsys signal processing diagrams (2011-03-09)
  - reotex new 2012-01-05 (Reo Coordination Language)
  - tikz-dependency
  - tikz-qtree: qtree syntax for TikZ
  - TQFT Topological quantum field theory diagrams, new 2011-10-02
- 3d
  - featpost 3D by MetaPost
  - productbox GeNe
  - tikz-3dplot
- general method, output format
  - dvipng | dvisvgm … or just see the dviware CTAN directory
  - gmp MetaPost pictures with LaTeX, new 2011-03-11
  - jpgfdraw
  - lapdf drawing with PDF commands, new 2011-09-01
  - luamplib (MPG) use LuaTeX’s built-in MetaPost interpreter
  - mfpic pictures with MetaFont or MetaPost
- other
  - decorule Peter Flynn, new 2011-06-13, decorative swelled rule actually using just a TeX font character (TUGboat 31:1)
  - flipbook new 2011-12-03
  - pagecolor (HMM) provides \thepagecolor, new 2011-08-06
  - pgfplots
  - transparent transparancy with pdfTeX, HO
  - xcolor-solarized palette of 16 colors, new 2015-02-19
LuaTeX:
- ifluatex
- luacode execute Lua from within TeX (MPG), new 2010-11-08, formerly in luatextra
- lualatex-doc MPG
- luamplib (MPG) use LuaTeX’s built-in MetaPost interpreter
- spelling with LuaTeX, feedback in PDF, new 2012-12-04
Making macros (cf. similarities: definitions, tool boxes):
- babeltools fixing (some) babel annoyances — Javier Bezos, v0.2 2010-10-15
- catchfilebetweentags Florent Chervet 2010-10-25
- cmdtrack (M. Downes) reports usage
- cprotect verbatim in macro arguments, new 2011-01-01, Bruno Le Floch, cf. LaTeX list on “Verbatim and xparse”
- ctanupload Perl script for upload from command line, Martin Scharrer, new 2011-09-05; cf. ctan_chk (Gawk) · ctanify
- dtxgen (WD) bash script to generate self-extracting .dtx from variables, new 2013-02-05
- everyhook!!! compatibility with LaTeX | fenixpar (“one-shot changes”
- gates (PI) large macros in “chunks”
- hardwrap word wrapping for screen messages, new 2010-11-11, Will Robertson and Kevin Godby
- ifplatform
- ifoddpage Martin Scharrer, new 2011-09-14
- ifthenx new 2012-04-01
- locality scoping for LaTeX programmers 2010-06-30
- loops Ahmed Musa new October 2012
- ltxcmds HO LaTeX kernel commands saved in different name space
- ltxnew (Florent Chervet) (cf. definitions)
- ltxtools Ahmed Musa new 2011-12-19, great bundle, alas: not documented TODO
- maybeload for Plain TeX
- newcommand (newcommand.py) Scott Pakin 2010-06-03?, more optional arguments
- optparams
- redefine \newdef etc.
- regstats counts number of used registers, HMM, new 2011/05/17
- show2e MPG: \showcmd with opt./robust · \showcs w/o \ · \showcmd
- storecmd Ahmed Musa, fix highlighting(!?)
- sty2dtx Martin Scharrer, Perl adds .sty to .dtx, “code section only” — cf. makedtx (Nicola Talbot)
- texapi, yax Paul Isambert 2010-06-17 (see tools for more)
- texdef Martin Scharrer, display definitions of TeX macros, Perl
- unravel watch TeX digesting tokens (for debugging)
- xargs Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard, more optional arguments, xkeyval syntax
- cf. many in oberdiek
- cf. key-value packages
- cf. JF#devel
- cf. optional arguments
Math:
- autonum, number equations referenced to only, new 2012-05-29
- bropd brackets, differentials, new 2012-11-06
- calculation typesetting calculational proofs, new 2015-01-08 — cf. calculating
- delim simplifies delimiters, new 2011-09-17
- empheq from mh bundle
- hhtensor
- isomath math for scientists — “formatting Greek and Latin letters as symbols for vectors, matrices, and tensors in the typefaces recommended for scientific papers by the International Standard ISO 80000-2” (former ISO 31-11) — HTML documentation
- mathtools
- mimeTeX math for HTML on the server (CGI), cf. www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html (or mathTeX)
- mleftright for math inner subformulas (HO)
- physymb streamlines writing derivatives and vector variables
- physics
- rmathbr repeating operators at line breaks, new 2015-06-05
- sisteme equation arrays, French, new 2011-03-01
- skmath more math commands
- tensor, cf. other packages about “tensors”
- thmtools 2010-05-18
- tikz-cd commutative diagrams, new 2011-09-13
- cf. fnt-math
Mathematical logic:
- drv derivation trees
- ebproof sequent calculus, new 2015-02-04
- rec-thy recursion (computability) theory, new 2010-10-16 TODO Volker etc.
- esrelation new 2015-05-01
- gfnotation Gottlob Frege’s notation with plain TeX, new 2015-05-03
Music:
- gtrcrd add chords to lyrics, new 2012-01-15
- leadsheets new 2015-01-12 (CN)
- musixguit for guitar with musixtex, new 2011-03-08 [ cf. musictex and musixtex-egler ] musixtnt
- piano (Piano diagram) new 2011-03-01
- pmx preprocessor for music typesetting, Bob Tennent — who authors musixtex as well
- songbook v4.5 2010-05-06 Christopher Rath
- off CTAN complete MusiXTeX: www.icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixtex.zip
Notes:
- topic endnote: Endheads John Burt | endnote (generic, 1993) | endnotes John L. | enotez (CN) nested, hyperref) | fn2end
- mbenotes in texts, tables, images, equations (update 2011-06-04, was new as mynotes 2011-05-14: in texts, tables, images; with a list of notes)
- meeting minutes: meetingmins new 2012-10-28 | mins JH – removed? neither under topic nor author | minutes | protocol
- notes2bib
- outlines 2012-01-25
- parnotes new 2012-01-04
- proofread WD new 2015-09-08
- tablefootnote
- todonotes cf. texhax / ann-todo
- versonotes new 2015-02-17
- cf. changes
- cf. editorial
PDF features
- acrotex — “AcroTeX education bundle” (“AeB”, D. P. Story), online PDF support, e.g.: JavaScript | acroflex for “graphing” | acrosorting images on screen, new 2012-01-01 | aeb_mlink for multiline-links | aebxmp | eqExam (but stand-alone) | fldigigal Flash slide show of digital photographs | rmannot “rich media annotations” — SWF, FLV, MP3 — , especially yt4pdf — playing YouTube clips | popupmenu | homepage
- animate
- autopdf on-the-fly conversion of graphics formats for pdfLaTeX, new 2012-11-03
- bxpdfver specify PDF version and compression level, new 2015-08-06
- colorspace (Javier Bezos)
- cooltooltips | fancytooltips
- hyperxmp (SP)
- linegoal Florent Chervet, new 2010-05-07 for pdfTeX, 2010-11-03 without pdfTeX (without the real thing) and with pdfTeX in dvi mode
- media9
- ocgtools “layers”, new 2010-03-31 | ocg-p new 2012-12-04 works with XeTeX too, as opposed to ocg.sty from asymptote | ocgx without JavaScript, another extension of ocg.sty, new 2012-10-02
- pdfcrop (HO)
- pdfcomment Josef Kleber 2010-06-01 user-friendly support for pdfTeX’s \pdfcomment
- pdfscreen
- pdfx – PDF/X and PDF/A support for pdfTeX
- purifyeps Scott Pakin, generate EPS files that can be input both in DVI and PDF mode
- thumbpdf (HO)
- transparent (HO)
- vpp (WD)
- xpdfopen – e.g., reload with Acrobat Reader (cf. makeshow)
- cf. hypertext
References:
- amsrefs similar to biblatex! (Cf. homepage.) 2010-08-17: AMS support for hyperref and labels improved
- Babelbib HH 2012-01-29
- biblatex-chicago
- biblatex-publist
- BibTool www.gerd-neugebauer.de (ExTeX)
- harvard | har2nat | natbib — texhax
- usebib “poor man’s” biblatex
- cf. similars—decide here/there!
Tables/arrays:
- booktabs book (publication) quality (compatible with multirow according to William Adams on texhax — Herbert Voß does without …) | booktabs-de doc. translated to German
- cals (Oleg Parachenko) multi-page, cell spanning, new 2010-10-09
- [cellular spanning, printers, 1988]
- collcell (Martin Scharrer)
- ctable easily typeset centered (or left/right) tables with key/value, single command instead of environment, allows footnotes (WD)
- diagbox split table cell diagonally
- easytable [ not announced ]
- excel2latex | fcolumn | spreadtab (Christian Tellechea) | MAKETABLE → JF#spread | calctab for invoices etc.
- latable “almost WYWIWYG” table editor for win32
- listliketab cf. tablists
- ltxtable (David Carlisle, referred to from tabu) merges longtable and tabularx
- makecell Olga Lapko → JF#tables
- multirow (Piet van Oostrum)
- tables — no need to specify preamble, very old …
- tablefootnote
- tabu both text/math, Florent Chervet, new 2010-11-12
- tabularborder (what I did manually for Copernicus!)
- tabularht specified height, HO 2011/09/10
- tabularkv key-value intervace, HO 2011/09/10
- tap simple notation for pretty complex tables (Polish authors) [ not announced ]
- spacing with horizontal rules: bigstrut (Piet van Oostrum, part of multirow, somewhat superseded by tabls and booktabs) | cellspace (Josselin Noirel) considered simpler than tabls (Donald Arseneau) | ctable thanks to loading booktabs || cf. CTAN topic table-rule
- tabfigures 2012-01-25
- threeparttable with a notes section
- cf. page-spanning tables
- search ctan.org/pkg for `tab’ (`row’, `cell’, …)
- cf. JF#tables
- cf. the LaTeX Wikibook (thanks to Peter Seitz)
- cf. CTAN topic table
Theses:
- ArsClassica
- classicthesis
- suftesi thesis class for humanities, Italian documentation, new 2010-09-07
- stellenbosch
- toptesi multilingual theses
TODOs:
- easy-todo with index of TODOs, new 2011-01-14
- FiXme collaborative … DV
- fixmetodonotes new 2012-06-12
- todonotes cf. texhax
- cf. ann-notes

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Else from the CTAN mailing list:

adjmulticol Boris Veytsman, margins with multicol, new 2011-02-24
alertmessage new 2015-08-05
babel-alpha JB, new 2012-11-19
bashful new 2011-03-01 run bash scripts from within LaTeX using \write18
bgteubner Harald Harders, Springer Vieweg, former Vieweg/Teubner
bundledoc (SP) for snapshot
chemnum \label-/\ref-like numbering of chemical compounds, “sublabels”—nice documentation style, blue links!
check-parens new 2012-01-08 cf. match_parens
chet streamlined scientific typesetting, similar to harvmac, new 2011-05-18
copyedit?? from CVR and others, new 2015-05-20, somewhat interesting, the announcement being very strange, about as “when you load this package, then you can use its features”
coseoul dynamically change document structure, new 2011-09-06
comment_io comment/uncomment by Python, new 2015-05-15
cutwin “window” in paragraph, typeset inside; Alan Hoenig & Peter Wilson 2010-10-04; vgl. picinpar, picins, wrapfig etc.
dfgproposal Michael Kohlhase 2010-11-04
dviout many output formats/fonts, MS-Windows
eitl script installs complete TeXLive from web
embrac C. Niederberger, upright brackets with \emph and \textit, new 2012-06-29
everysel on new font
etdipa template for scientific documents
fnpct footnote mark kerning after punctuation
handout
he-she gender-neutral writing, new 2011-02-14
hang – environments for hanging paragraphs and list items, new 2015-05-14
hypdvips fixes for hyperref+dvips (2010-06-22)
invoice, cf. facture
latex2man
lintex tidy up after a TeX run
Manuscript look like typed by typewriter
mVersion tracking document versions, new 2011-10-19
mwe Martin Scharrer minimal working examples
nameauth help for editors and proofreaders with tracking names (authority control)
nonumonpart no page no. w/ \part, new 2011-04-15
nowidow easily prevent widows and orphans
oberdiek update 2011-04-12 TODO: describe more! new:
- eolgrab read arg until end of line
- hobsub loading several packages in one big collection package [cf. interfaces!?]
- hopatch see filehook
- protecteddef
pageslts / lastpage Hans-Martin Münch new maintainer, label for last page (new or change of maintenance 2010-06-10) Cf. texhax query, totpages | count1to
papermas HMM, compute number of needed sheets and their sum weight
pedigree-perl
petiteannonce
pst-fit curve fitting, new 2012-11-04
quotchap
quoting alternative to {quotation} and {quote} environments, new 2011-08-08
refstyle cross-referencing formats
rvwrite new 2010-08-28, dealing with limited number of output streams under LaTeX, cf. splitindex
savetrees Scott Pakin 2010-06-03
scalerel Steven Segletes
schwalbe-chess new 2011-06-06
TeXcount Perl counts words
termmenu terminal-based menus with LaTeX3, new 2015-05-26
texliveonfly like MiKTeX, new 2011-09-17
texlive-dummy avoid openSUSE overhead by rpm dummy, new 2012-01-16
texvc von MediaWiki interpretierte LaTeX-Befehle (vgl. texhax)
thumbs HMM
titleps “page styles” Javier Bezos, now “autonomous” (cf. fancyhdr) – 2011-12-15
totcount final values of counters
undolabl Hans-Martin Münch, override (automatically generated) labels, update 2010-07-15
xcite analogue to xr for citations, new 2011-09-03; cf. philex: cross references for named and numbered environments
xcookybooky recipes
xhfill modify \hrulefill, Herbert Voß, new 2011-05-14
xpunctuate extends xspace to avoid redundant punctuation, new 2012-05-23
zref (HO) | enumitem-zref (FC)

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Else found occasionally:

environ cf. Heiko on texhax 2010-11-20 (collecting body, cf. amsmath)
latex2rtf | tex2rtf TODO
lettrine dropped capitals
mkjobtexmf (HO) make texmf tree for particular job
msc Message Sequence Charts
nb4latex — convert NotaBene4 to LaTeX
needspace from texhax: Ulrike Fischer (and others)
nolbreaks provides \nolbreaks{⟨some text⟩} (DA)
pgfkeys (TT) — texhax 2010-05-05 — pgfkeyx (AM)
showlabels.html
pmboxdraw Heiko Oberdiek texhax 2010-08-03
secdot, cf. KOMA-Script and memoir, Philipp Stephani zu Michael Barr auf texhax
sphack extended to vertical mode
topcapt caption above figure/table (Robin Fairbairns)
umlaute mostly superseded by inputenc, but still useful for atari and roman8 encoding

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“Similarity circles” (Carnap/Husserl), i.e., CTAN package informations (TeX Catalogue) should report that packages listed here in a shared item are “related” to each other (often missing):

acronyms: acro | acromake | acronym | acronym209 | acroterm new 2010-11-20, indexing … | tugboat TUGboat.cls
arrays: arrayjob — superseded by arrayjobx (ctan-ann 2010-05-05) | forarray → JF#calculating (cf. texhax April, May 2010) || cf. dbase
beamer | beamer2thesis | beameraudience versions, new 2011-08-04 | beamerposter cf. www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~dreuw/latexbeamerposter.php | beamersubframe | more beamer... | dynblocks | fancyslides new 2015-02-13 | lecturer Paul Isambert, elegant implementation trick, new 2010-07-28 | present presentations — with Plain TeX, new 2010-08-12 | powerdot | prosper | spot new 2010-09-23 | …
bibliography: amsrefs | biber replacement for BibTeX with biblatex, François Charette / Philip Kime | crosstex with different data format | librarian another (!?) by Paul Isambert | tib quite old — cf. UK FAQ || cf. announcements—decide here/there!
blindtext | kantlipsum | lipsum | plipsum for Plain TeX, new 2012-08-29 | ptext Persian, XeTeX only, new 2012-11-01
booklet | pdfbook | pdfpages | psbook | vpp || cf. my texhax page
calculating (just a few from elsewhere here, more at CTAN topics arithmetic and calculation and JF#calculating): apnum arbitrary precision calculations and decimal fractions, generic, new 2004-11-25 | bigintcalc Heiko Oberdiek, expandable arithmetic || cf. xlop etc. and beob2015#15-02
changes (texhax) offers striking out, \added, \deleted, \replaced, \listofchanges | changebar (texhax) | chbar (Plain TeX) | backgrnd backgrnd.tex contains some ASCII documentation | latexdiff (texhax) || cf. ann-notes
code: c2latex | checklistings – fancyvrb and listings with externally checked code, new 2015-09-05 | docmfp (PW/WR) documenting non-LaTeX code | documentation C, Java, Assembler, new 2011-11-30 | highlight | listings-ext 2010-05-18 | lstaddons Martin Scharrer | lstbayes language driver for Bayesian modeling languages, new 2015-09-24 | SASnRdisplay
- using Pygments (pygments.org) for LaTeX: minted — cf. texhax | statrep SAS | texments | verbments new 2011/06/15 || cf. verb
— etc. → JF#cs
Chinese: ctex | chitex
combine documents: combine | docmute | includex | newclude | standalone | subdocs | subfiles … cf. UK FAQ “multidoc”
databases: csvsimple 2010-07-28 | datatool (superseding csvtools) | db→ JF#dbase | dbprocess | LaTeXDB | nlatexdb new 2011-08-17, C#/.NET, SQL | ratexdb→ JF#dbase SQLTeX | pst-dbicons || cf. arrayjob
definitions:
- ltxnew Florent Chervet, \new, \renew, \provide
- makecmds PW/WR more commands along line of \(re)newcommand
- moredefs (Matt Swift, frankenstein bundle, \provide... see tools for more)
- redefine \newdef etc.
cf. macro tool collections, announcements, and optional arguments
dtl | dvi2tty | dvitty | dvitype
not sure about dvitype, cf.: dvi2ln3 | dvitoln03
eqell exclaim, question, ellipsis mark 2010-07-11 | cf. Heslin ellipsis | Swift lips | xellipsis new 2015-10-13
epspdf, epspdf-extra eps/pdf/ps conversions with options and optional GUI (Siep Kroonenberg 2010-05-09 2013-02-10) | epspdfconversion v0.6 2010-04-29 on-the-fly conversion with epspdf (Daniel Becker) | epstopdf-pkg, epstopdf (Heiko Oberdiek) | eps2pdf (Nikola Jakšić) | autopdf!? (2012-11-03), purifyeps!? || cf. UK FAQ
engines: ifetex Martin Scharrer, new 2011-10-31, 2011-12-15 \NeedsETeX | ifluatex | ifpdf | ifvtex | ifxetex | iftex (Vafa Khaligi)
macro tool collections:
- etextools Florent Chervet, extensive list management, loops (\naturalloop!), expandable; funny doc., long list of commands; based on:
- etoolbox Philipp Lehman (\newrobust(*), \providerobust(*), \robustify, \protecting code, \defcounter, \deflength, \AfterPreamble etc., \numdef etc., expansion control, hook management, \patchcmd etc., \tracingpatches, \if..., toggling, list processing, \dolistloop, \ifinlist)
- gmutils – a heavy lot, but almost undocumented
- moredefs from Frankenstein, including \provide..., \IfElement (not expandable), \@ifundefined@cs, saving, debugging, … – the TOC is wrong w.r.t. the page on which the code documentation starts
- texapi format-independent utility macros based on e-TeX (Paul Isambert, 2010-06-17) e.g., many string functions, setting and restoring category codes of many characters at once, trimming spaces, loop constructions (including \dofor), \if...
cf. announcements and definitions
exams/exercises: eqExam | exam | exercises new 2015-09-20 | exsheets (CN) | listofanswers (new 2012-11-07) | probsoln NT 2012-01-14 || cf. topics exercise and exam
excel2latex | exceltex
“flatten” \input and \include: flatten | flatex | latexpand — “flatten” | cf. detex → JF# | de-macro wrong places in JF#? | ltx2x (conversion, e.g., to HTML) → JF#
floats (a few things from other regions of this file, much more in CTAN topics float and caption): ctable WD, both tabular and float | caption customize captions, also get caption for non-floating … — cf. ccaption: “continuation …” | endfloat all figures at end of document TODO: 2 × texhax 2010 |
fmtcount | numprint TODO | romanbar HMM new 2012-01-02 incl. \ifnumeric | coolstr | datatool
nice fractions: nicefrac | xfrac || cf. fractions in the LaTeX Wikibook
framed (breakable) | mdframed (update 2010-05-17 with Elke Schubert; → JF#colour + JF#boxes) | boites || cf. niceframe …
HTML: html2latex | latex2html (Perl) | HyperLaTeX set of macros processable either by latex for tolerable DVI/PDF or by hyperlatex to get good-quality HTML; “escape mechanism” for TeX commands not properly translatable to HTML| ltoh (Perl) | ltx2x (PW) | lug (WD) maintain local user group web pages with Bash | mimeTeX | plasTeX (plastex.sourceforge.net) | tex2page also macros of different kinds; home page | tex4ht parses non-standard DVI made with special macros — cf. TUG manual ($→$ make4ht) | tth | typehtml wrong caption? typesets (DVI/PDF) from HTML source | … TODO || cf. JF#html | blog | CTAN topic converting into HTML—plastex missing!
hypertext: breakurl | hrefhide | hypbmsec | hypcap | hypdestopt | hypdoc | hypdvips | [ hyper (xdvi) ] hypernat | hyperref | hypgotoe — cf. HTML | PDF features
hyphenation: dehyph-exptl | fixltxhyph hyphenation with emphasized subwords, new 2012-01-16 | hyphenaccent | hyphenat | hyphenation-greek | hyphenex | hyphen-spanish | hyphsubst | hypht1 | hyph-utf8 hyph-utf8 Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard | hyplain | iahyphen | icehyph | inhyph | ishyph | ithyph — etc. TODO
moreenum | multenum | shortlst | paralist — texhax “inline lists”, with style reasonings! e.g. Lars Madsen, Barbara Beeton, better Susan Dittmar, 2010-05-20. See also JF#enumeration. tablists ???
keyval | ltxkeys Ahmed Musa | keyreader Ahmed Musa, “back” 2011-12-22 (new 2010-01-12, withdrawn 2010-04-03) | keyval2e Ahmed Musa, new 2011-08-14 | processkv | skeycommand — cf. xargs | skeyval Ahmed Musa, v0.7 2010-05-05: \DeclareKeyCommand | xkeyval | YaX “Yet Another Key System” (Paul Isambert, 2010-06-17)
see LaTeX-make packages
layout: canoniclayout (memoir) | fullwidth new 2011-11-28 | geometry | layman | layout | layouts (“display”!) | vmargin | zwpagelayout
letterspacing and the like: letterspacing for Plain TeX | microtype (contains ‘letterspace’ package) | nccstretch | soul | soulutf8 → JF#lining | textfit | tracking — or enter ‘lettersp’ for ‘Search the documentation’ on ctan.tug.org/search.html
logos: hologo (HO) → JF# | metalogo — Ulrike Fischer on texhax; long discussion of the ConTeXt logo ensues; → JF# | mflogo | mflogo-fonts | texlogos | xltxtra
for difficulties with \marginpar (marginals):
marginal (from sttools) | marginfix (Stephen Hicks, for …, new 2010-08-20) | marginnote (Markus Kohm) | mparhack (Tom Sgouros, Stefan Ulrich) | sidenotes new 2011-08-23 [cf. memoir] | tamefloats (mine)
multipage tables: bigtable for Plain TeX | bigtabular breakable (outdated?) | cals Oleg Parachenko, new 2010-10-09, headers/footers, spanning, decorations → JF#setlongtables | longtable ← ltabptch | ltablex/ltxtable “longtable” with X as in tabularx | supertabular (outdated?) | tabu (FC) → JF#setlongtables | xtab
optional arguments: newcommand (newcommand.py) | optparams | skeycommand | twoopt | xargs
page hooks: bophook | everypage | everyshi
parallel 2003-04-13, provides footnotes for each of two texts, may need pdfcolparallel for colours | paracol new 2011-09-17 (rec. 2013-06-30) | parcolumns 2004-11-25 also more than two, may need pdfcolparcolumns for colours | parrun top/bottom of page | ledpar for ledmac → eledpar
patching
- patching patch-pkg{packages:} afterpackage | hopatch — see filehook
- patching patch-cmd{macros:} etoolbox | patch | patchcmd | regexpatch (EG) new 2012-04-15, based on l3regex | xpatch EG too, extending etoolbox’s patching, new 2012-01-13
posters (cf. JF#posterpackages:) a0poster | beamerposter TODO texhax 2012/01/04 | flowfram — more general: text flowing from frame to frame (XSL-FO?) | poster (scaling PostScript images) | poster-mac (generic) | sciposter | sectionbox — hopefully more general | textpos — more general | tikzposter
quoting: balancedquotes | csquote | dirtytalk (new 2010-11-22)
editor-previewer synchronization (cf. TeX/WYSIWYG): srcltx | pdfsync | synctex-parser (cf. home page) | vpe (Heiko Oberdiek)—cf. MicroPress “Visual TeX” / vtex-free
Scientific Author (visual front end for MiKTeX; rest about MacKichan TeX products:) | Scientific Viewer | sciwordconv
silence | texfot | texlog_extract Wybo Dekker 2010-07-08 | texloganalyser || cf. ChkTeX
tensor | tensind (JB) [ hhtensor multidimensional arrays only (Wikipedia), “step” = rank? also cf. isomath / math packages ]
titlesec | nccsect | sectsty (no spacing?) | secdot || cf. JF#title
tables of contents: crossreference | etoc customizing, new 2012-11-21 | minitoc | multitoc | shorttoc | tableof things with listed tags, new 2012-12-09 | titletoc (see documentation of titlesec, Javier Bezos) | tocloft | tocvsec2 (P. W./W. R.) — cf. JF#toc TODO — missing there: notoccite (Donald Arseneau) | nccsect (\DeclareTOCPart, \DeclareTOCEntry, \SetTOCStyle, …)

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Related to some of my own:

aliases (grdalias, namemod): aliascnt | letltxmacro (both Heiko Oberdiek)
beamer (blogdot): cf. beamer
catcodes: catoptions Ahmed Musa new 2011-02-08, preserving and recalling standard catcodes, parsing package options; cf. pcatcode (from amsrefs) which provides a stack for package-wide category code changes
critical editions (ednotes): bigfoot | EDMAC | eLedmac new 2012-09-18 | ledmac | poemscol | edmargin (for typesetting one text in two or more columns, see JF#cols)
dialogues (fddial0g.sty): dialogl code, examples, … for interactive LaTeX scripts (Michael Downes) | dialogue citing from dialogue scripts (theatre …; Matt Swift, 1999)
documenting packages (makedoc): cnltx Clemens Niederberger, new 2015-01-12, beautiful | CodeDoc | denisbdoc new 2015/04/29 (then renamed) | DoX (Didier Verna) | fcltxdoc | gmdoc | holtxdoc | hypdoc | nlctdoc Nicola Talbot | pauldoc | pitex (Paul Isambert, without doc.) | xdoc | ydoc (Martin Scharrer, “alpha” 2010/12/21)
filedate: | filemod | getfiledate | zwgetfdate
file hooks (used by my inputtrc) currfile | filehook (Martin Scharrer, seems to extend afterpackage 2010/12/21) | FiNK (superseded by currfile) | hopatch (HO) another one like afterpackage (see patch-pkg), wrapper to hooks from other classes/packages, documentation has overview of similar commands from other packages | inputfile
fileinfo/readprov: getfileversion Harald Harders = latexfileversion | ltxfileinfo Wybo Dekker 2010-07-07 | rcs-multi/svn-multi — svn-prov SVN variants of \Provides... (all 3 MS; vs. rcs/rcsinfo svn/svninfo)
file info lists (adhocfilelist / myfilist / longnamefilelist / nicefilelist) classlist Heiko Oberdiek — plain text table? dateiliste Paul Ebermann (only typeset) — see latexfileinfo-pkgs
footnotes: finstrut | fnbreak HH detecting split footnotes | fnpct spacing between footnote mark and punctuation
gullet: unravel
hypertoc: hrefhide
ifnextok: xpeek, xspace
inputtrc (also filehook) ltxinput for MSDOS | texlog_extract
langcode/catchdq: babel-spanglish!? | copyedit | csquotes | balancedquotes | logical-markup-utils | translations CN !? very complex
lineno: numline | vertbars extension of lineno (Peter Wilson, Will Robertson)
list loops (dowith): forloop just provides \forloop and \forLoop | loops (AM Oct 2012, no doc.) | multido | xfor | lmake | loop.tex from midnight bundle provides \Break and \Continue
strings (fifinddo): bibleref-parse (here?) | coolstr | datatool | gtl manipulates even unbalanced token lists, is “generic”, and requires up-to-day LaTeX3 code! | makematch | overword | parselines Florent Chervet 2010-10-25 | stringenc | stringstrings (Steven Segletes, somewhat expandable) | substr | ted (Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard) | texapi (Paul Isambert, e-TeX) | xesearch (PI) | xstring (Christian Tellechea, e-TeX)
successf: latexn – and just cf. makeshow
texlinks: uri Hans-Martin Münch, new 2011-03-05;
tables shares features with blogexec
.txt→.tex and syntactic sugar (makedoc): EasyLaTeX | escap\varepsilon -TeXt JH | SmileTeX | txt2latex | txt2tex | unisugar semantic sugar with Unicode (selected Unicode chars as LaTeX macro aliases, Apple command key as escape, visible space in macro names, RTL easier — Hebrew author)
typeoutfileinfo: latexfileversion HH | ltxfileinfo WD
niceverb: cnltx Clemens Niederberger, new 2015-01-12 | cprotect new 2011-01-01 | fancyvrb | moreverb | newvbtm (Hiroshi N.) | newverbs (Martin Scharrer) | spverbatim (SP): \spverb breakable variant of \verb | upquote “realistic verbatim quotes” | verbatim
versions of a document: multiaudience (veytsman{BV}), new 2015-08-04 | comment | comment-pln | xcomment | optional | version | tagging new 2011-08-29 — cf. JF#revision; mVersion
web pages (blog): hevea.inria.fr | TODO || cf. TUG TeX4ht manual!!! | webguide — HTML / PDF | TeX web projects | texhax | my texhax page | ann-html
wiki-like markup: asciilist new 2015-11-14 interpreter new 2011-07-09 | outlines | makedoc | markblog | wiki | TODO: similar package … || cf. easylatex

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Installing fonts:
- TeX fonts overview by Ulrik Vieth and Taco Hoekwater, slides for EuroTeX’99 (special attention to math fonts)
- TUG TeX fonts overview
- the powerful fontinst utility for making PostScript (→ psfonts | psfont ) or OpenType fonts available to (La)TeX (including math fonts) — home page
- fontools— re-encode .afm files (alternative to fontinst); extract kerning pairs from .otf; wrapper for LCDF-TypeTools → otftotfm, .fd, .sty
- mathinst integrates given Roman text fonts with given raw math fonts
- mathkit creates MetaFont input for math fonts matching given Type 1 fonts
- the mathdesign project provides math fonts compatible with certain text fonts
- more general TUG font installation page
- Philipp Lehman’s fontinstallationguide on PostScript Type 1 fonts, unmaintained 2010-08-29
- installfont bash script for installing a LaTeX font family (Postscript Type1, Truetype, Opentype; Josef Kleber)
- rfil— Ruby font installation library Patrick Gundlach
Unicode:
- cm-unicode 2010-07-08
- euenc unicode font encodings for XeTeX (EU1) / LuaTeX (EU2)
- junicode for medieavalists 2012-01-23
- oldstandard Unicode 2010-07-08
- ucharclasses automatic font switching on changing Unicode blocks with XeLaTeX, new 2010-12-21 | fontwrap
Unicode math: “Mathematical OpenType typefaces have significant coverage of the symbols defined in the Unicode Technical Report #25 (Unicode Support for Mathematics), and provide advanced layout features using the MATH OpenType table and math OpenType script supported by Office 2007” (from Wikipedia Category:Mathematical OpenType typefaces; according to asana-math:) and XeTeX (0.997) / LuaTeX (cf. Wikipedia on Cambria, Section Usage, and on FontForge).
- Asana-Math
- XITS Khaled Hosny, Times-like, Unicode, OpenType, with math support, for XeTeX/LuaTeX, new 2010-07-15; cf. stix and Wikipedia
- unicode-math macros for using such fonts, plus Microsoft’s Cambria, Will Robertson 2010-06-03
- Minion Math (MATH table, Wikipedia category page) typoma: as of 2011-10-01
For Cambria, also see www.tiro.com/projects.html (thanks to Johannes Kuester, who also reports about the math extension of Latin Modern).
Greek:
- LGRx Greek LGR encoding (babel) – obsolete by greek-fontenc and greek-inputenc
- textgreek greek letters in text mode obeying NFSS and in PDF bookmarks, by \textbeta etc.
- chemgreek upright Greek letters in formulas
- greekinfo3 Twenty-five years of Greek TeXing—overview of all available systems, packages, and fonts for typesetting Greek text using TeX/LaTeX
math (cf. installing)
- bickham virtual fonts for Adobe Bickham Script Pro as a math calligraphic font, new 2011-08-26 (support from mathalfa, same author Michael Sharpe)
- bbold-type1
- cmtiup | cmslup | mdputu (Boris Veytsman)
- kpfonts full text and math !? check!
- old-arrows smaller arrow heads
- rsfso, new 2011-02-14, math calligraphic, less slant than rsfs
- mathalfa math fonts individually scalable, new 2011-05-13
- mathastext use text font also in math
- sansmath (DA)
ADF (Clea F. Rees):
- adforn ornaments 2010-08-01
- baskervaldadf 2010-07-14
- berenisadf 2010-09-19
- electrumadf 2010-07-22
- libris Libris ADF Font Collection 2010-07-10
- romandeadf 2010-07-12
- venturisadf 2010-07-12
sampling → JF#
- fntproof new 2010-12-02, alternative to
- testfont (Knuth)
- fontbl interactive, Plain TeX
- fontchart
adobemapping Karl Berry, Ken Lunde/Adobe, 2010-05-31
cfr-lm more for lmodern
comfortaa “comfortable” sans-serif
dozenal
ec European Computer Modern
fontaxes adding axes to NFSS, new 2011-09-17
font-change 2010-07-19
fontools
ly1 Y&Y fonts “complete” — Karl Berry, 2010-06-11
pkfix (HO)
realscripts Will Robertson 2010-08-05 super-/subscripts via OpenType
substitutefonts

Not on CTAN: github.com/khaledhosny/euler-otf for using AMS Euler as an OpenType text font, from texhax (2010-06-22).

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Special: — see also Fonts!

cooltooltips Scott Pakin, cf. VisualFAQ
popupmenu
bibleref (Nicola Talbot) 2010-04-29 | bibleref-german new 2011-02-07
extsizes | Ulrike Fischer corrects William Adams on texhax and suggests something more
fotex | passivetex | xmltex
Topic Greek : greek-inputenc etc., greekinfo3 not included
grid (River Valley) cf. ltxgrid (RevTeX) | gridset (MK) | grid-system
historische-zeitschrift citation style (biblatex), updated 2010-10-20
imakeidx Claudio Beccari + EG new 2010-07-10 — create one index or more in the same run (remarks about makeindex and Xindy), cf. ltxindex
interfaces key-value and other interfaces to other packages
LaTexMng — shareware IDE for Windows (TODO → )
latexrender — call LaTeX from PHP (→ “Webservice”!?)
latex-tds (minimal LaTeX installation?)
mylatex (David Carlisle) | mylatexformat (Florent Chervet) — move preamble content into format for speed.
ALaTeX (Matt Swift) something very different
newunicodechar easier alternative to \DeclareUnicodeCharacter, → inputenx (HO)
newspaper — flowfram (Nicola Talbot) | papertex — magaz (topic Magazine) — jumplines: new 2015-01-06, teasers continued somewhere else, newspaper-like, wrongly put into topic “typesetting journals, etc”
polyglossia François Charette, replaces babel with XeLaTeX
pdfx – PDF/X, PDF/A
prerex (Bob Tennent, dependencies) 2010-06-28
selnolig prevent wrong ligatures with LuaLaTeX
skb long-term maintenance of documents 2010-08-05
sTeX Semantic TeX (XML/MathML, 2010-06-25)
struktex Nassi-Schneidermann diagrams (TODO cf. …!?)
tex-gpc change files for TeX, compilation under GNU Pascal 2010-05-27
xecolor color with bidirectional, Vafa Khalighi, new 2011-09-29
Xunicode Ross Moore, generate Unicode characters from accented glyphs, supports XeTeX’ (and other putative future similar engines’) need for Unicode characters, in a similar way to what fontenc does for 8-bit (and the like) fonts: convert accent-glyph sequence to a single character in the output encoding.

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