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The CTAN archive
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:
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