The TeX Catalogue Online

by Graham Williams

Alphabetically Indexed CTAN Edition


Section L


labels

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/labels/ PDF Documentation Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

Support for printing sheets of sticky labels (but could also be used for business cards). The number of rows and columns of labels, and their size, can be changed.


lamstex

CTAN:macros/lamstex/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

A merge of the best in AMSTeX and LaTeX (16 May 1996)


lastpage

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/lastpage/ PDF Documentation Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

Reference the number of pages in your LaTeX document (as in a page footer that says: Page N of M).


lated

CTAN:systems/msdos/lated/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

A graphical editor for drawings in the LaTeX ``picture'' environment. It runs under MSDOS or in a Windows DOS box. The distribution includes full sources, including LaTeX source for its documentation. Latest recorded version is 1.1. (11 Feb 1998)


latex

CTAN:macros/latex/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

LaTeX is a (and probably the most) popular macro package for TeX. It provides many basic document formating commands extended by many of the packages included in this current list. To get LaTeX, get either the contents of the ``base'' directory or the ``unpacked'' directory in the above CTAN location. See also latex2e, and latex209. (9 Nov 1996)


latex209

CTAN:macros/latex209/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

The pre-1993 LaTeX, now no longer supported See also latex2e, and latex. (4 Jul 1996)


latex2e

CTAN:info/latex2e-help-texinfo/ Documentation Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

Documentation on LaTeX2e in OS/2 hypertext format and html. See also latex, and latex209. (4 Jul 1996)


latex2html

CTAN:support/latex2html/ Home Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

A Perl program that translates LaTeX source files into HTML (HyperText Markup Language). For each source file given as an argument the translator will create a directory containing the corresponding HTML files. (8 Jul 1996)


latex2man

CTAN:support/latex2man/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

A tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command. Alternatively HTML or TexInfo code can be produced too. Latest recorded version is 1.1. (27 Jan 1998)


latex2rtf

CTAN:support/latex2rtf/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

Translates LaTeX text into RTF (Rich Text Format as used by Microsoft Word) See also tex2rtf. (25 Jun 1996)


latexcad

CTAN:systems/msdos/latexcad/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

A CAD drawing package. (20 Mar 1998)


latexmk

CTAN:support/latexmk Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

An excellent utility for Unix which Deals with the task of running LaTeX the appropriate number of times to ensure cross-references, etc., are completely defined. Also supports printing and viewing. Latest recorded version is 2.0. See also latexn. (12 Jan 1997)


latexn

CTAN:support/latexn/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

A csh script to run latex as many times as needed (and hopefully no more) on a given file to resolve cross references, and to ensure that the table of contents and index (if any) are up-to-date. See also latexmk. (27 Nov 1997)


latin2jk

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

A definition file for the inputenc package, where all characters from IS=-8859-2 (Latin-2) are loaded as text characters. This allows verbatim setting of Latin-2 encoded files. (7 Oct 1997)


layout

CTAN:macros/latex/packages/tools/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante teTeX

Show the page layout.


leftidx

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/leftidx/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

This package enables left subscripts and superscripts in math mode. These subscripts and superscripts are automatically raised for better fitting to the symbol they belong to. (4 Feb 1998)


lettrine

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/lettrine/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

A package to typeset dropped capitals in various ways, typically those described in the French typographic books. (26 Jun 1997)


levy

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/levy/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

Macros for using Silvio Levy's Greek fonts (16 May 1996)


lgreek

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/lgreek/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

Macros for using Silvio Levy's Greek fonts (16 May 1996)


lgrind

CTAN:support/lgrind/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

Prepares various programming language source code (e.g., C, C++, Pascal, BASIC, Modula-2, Fortran, RATFOR, Yacc, PostScript, Prolog, MLisp, Icon, LaTeX, Perl, CSH, Bourne Shell, assembler, 68000 assembler, asm68, VMS assembler, ISP, LDL, Linda, MODEL, MatLab, Russell) for pretty-printing within LaTeX. Latest recorded version is 34. See also lgrind-win32. (7 Mar 1997)


lgrind-win32

CTAN:support/lgrind/win32/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

A version of lgrind for Win32 systems. (24 Mar 1998)


lilypond

CTAN:support/lilypond/ Home Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

GNU LilyPond is a program which converts music definition files into visual or auditive output: it can typeset formatted sheet music to a TeX file and (mechanical) performances to MIDI files. (12 Aug 1997)


lineno

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/lineno/ Home Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

Adds line numbers to selected paragraphs with reference possible through the LaTeX \ref and \pageref cross reference mechanism. Version 2.00 supports numbering of one in five lines and switching the line numbers from the left to the right side of the page in twoside mode. See also numline. (28 May 1996)


linguex

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/linguex/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

A package to facilitate the formatting of linguist examples. Automatically takes care of example numbering, indentations, indexed brackets, and the ``*'' in grammaticality judgments. linguho.sty allows for automatic extraction of a handout from a file generated with linguex.sty. (3 Jul 1997)


lips

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

Text ellipses that are better for text ellipses than \dots, by the standard of the Chicago Manual of Style. Latest recorded version is 1.2. (21 Oct 1996)


listings

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/listings/ Documentation Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

A package for typesetting listings using LaTeX2e. The source code is read directly by TeX. Keywords, comments and strings can be typeset using different styles, e.g., default is bold for keywords, italic for comments and no special style for strings. (9 Jun 1997)


llncs

CTAN:macros/latex209/contrib/springer/llncs/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

Document style for submissions to Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. (4 Oct 1996)


localloc

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/localloc/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

Macros for localizing TeX register allocations (16 May 1996)


logic

Included in the TeXLive distribution

MetaFont font for drawing logic diagrams. (3 May 1997)


lollipop

CTAN:macros/lollipop/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

A new generation format (16 May 1996)


longtable

CTAN:macros/latex/packages/tools/ PDF Documentation Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante teTeX

Support for tables longer than a page. Generally easier to use and more flexible than supertabular. See also supertabular. (21 Jun 1996)


losymbol

CTAN:macros/latex209/contrib/misc/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

Defines a lost of symbols macro.


lscape

CTAN:macros/latex/packages/graphics/ PDF Documentation Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante teTeX

Place selected parts of a document in landscape. Modifies the margins and rotates the page contents but not the page number. Useful, for example, with large multipage tables, and is compatible with longtable and supertabular. Latest recorded version is 3.0, 1994/10/05. See also rotating. (7 Nov 1996)


lshort2e

CTAN:info/lshort/ Documentation Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

A short introduction to LaTeX2e. (16 May 1996)


ltablex

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/ltablex/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

Modifies the tabularx environment to combine the features of the tabularx package (auto-sized columns in a fixed width table) with those of the longtable package (multi-page tables).


ltoh

CTAN:support/ltoh/ Home Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

Customizable Latex to HTML converter. Latest recorded version is 97f. (29 Apr 1997)


ltx2x

CTAN:support/ltx2x/ Documentation Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

A program to replace LaTeX commands by user-defined characters. Typical uses are for deTeXing and pretty-printing, or for replacing LaTeX commands by SGML, HTML, and RTF tags, etc. (26 Jan 1997)


ltxbase

CTAN:macros/latex/base Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

The core LaTeX (16 May 1996)


ltxdoc

CTAN:macros/latex/base/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

Class for documented LaTeX2e classes.


ltxinput

CTAN:support/ltxinput/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

An MSDOS utility which recursively searches a file for input (and include) statements, writing a list of files which are input to stdout and to a batch file which sets an environmental variable LTXINPUT to point to this filelist. The C source, MSDOS binary, documentation and test files are included in the distribution. (26 Nov 1996)


ltxmisc

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/misc Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

Miscellaneous LaTeX styles. (16 May 1996)


ltxsrc

CTAN:macros/latex/base Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

The core source files for LaTeX2e (16 May 1996)


lucold

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/lucold/ Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante

A package to switch the rendering of all the digits to the so-called ``old-style'' numbers, when using Lucida fonts. The switch affects all digits in text mode, or all digits in text and math mode. It works both for normal weight and boldface text and math; since the boldface old-style digits are in the ``Lucida Expert'' font set, you need it for the boldface digits. Includes a set of AWK programs used to automatically build fd, tfm and vf files from the existing Lucida PSNFSS distribution, and that may easily changed for the generation of different virtual files for whatever font. (4 Feb 1998)


ly1

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/ly1 Download from somewhere nearby (Search) Download from Dante Included in the TeXLive distribution

Support for LY1 LaTeX encoding, i.e. the Y\&Y texnansi encoding. (12 Apr 1997)