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Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
The CTAN root directory
This is the root of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network directory tree. Most information in CTAN is contained in subdirectories:
- biblio
- Systems for maintaining and presenting bibliographies within documents typeset using TeX
- digests
- Collections of TeX mailing list digests, TeX-related electronic magazines, and indexes, etc., of printed publications
- dviware
- Printer drivers and previewers, etc., for .dvi files
- fonts
- Fonts written in Metafont, and support for using fonts from other sources (e.g., those in Adobe Type 1 format)
- graphics
- Systems and TeX macros for producing graphics
- help
- FAQs (de fr uk) and similar direct assistance; the catalogue
- indexing
- Systems for maintaining and presenting indexes of documents typeset using TeX
- info
- Manuals and extended how-to information; errata for TeX-related publications, collections of project (e.g., LaTeX and NTS) documents, etc.
- install
- ZIP files of ready-to-install CTAN packages. The package contained in CTAN directory a/b/c/d/ appears as install/a/b/c/d.tds.zip – each such file may be unzipped directly into a TDS tree, and should contain no “tree prefix”
- language
- Support for various languages; hyphenation patterns
- macros
- TeX
macros; several directories have significant sub-trees:
- context
- The ConTeXt distribution and contributed material
- generic
- Macros that work in several environments
- latex
- The LaTeX distribution and contributed material
- luatex
- Macros that require the LuaTeX engine
- plain
- Donald Knuth's example macro set and contributed material
- xetex
- Macros that require the XƎTeX engine
- obsolete
- Material which is now obsolete, but which needs to remain on the archive for some reason (such as the 1992 LaTeX 2.09 distribution). The tree maintains a “shadow hierarchy” – for example obsolete/macros has the same basic structures macros.
- support
- TeX support environments and the like
- systems
- TeX
systems; organised by operating environment, but also including:
- knuth
- Donald Knuth's current distribution.
- generic
- Complete systems that can potentially operate in more than one operating environment.
- MacTeX
- The distribution of MacTeX for Mac OS X
- TeX Live
- The Live collection of freely distributable TeX material, including the TeX Live on-line installer.
- MiKTeX
- The distribution of MiKTeX; CTAN provides a home for MiKTeX's package repository, part of its online installer.
- tds
- The TeX Directory Structure standard (the output of the TUG TDS working group)
- usergrps
- Information supplied by TeX User Groups
- web
- Literate Programming tools and systems
CTAN on the Web
CTAN can be found on the Web under the URL http://www.ctan.org. The CTAN team provides various features on this site:
- Browsing the CTAN directory
- Browsing in the Cataloge (by package, author, or topic)
- Searching in the Catalogue
- …
Searching CTAN
You can search the content of the Catalogue with the following form on the CTAN site:
In addition, CTAN archives maintain lists of their contents as plain text files, in a number of ways:
- Sorted by name (This is a big file…around 10M bytes).
- New or changed in the last 7 days (This is usually a more manageable size…)
This is an experimental page. Comments, to the CTAN team, will be most welcome.
Last updated 2015-02-01