April 1994
Intermediate to advanced
522 pages
9h 12m
English
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Chapter 16. TeX Utilities
This chapter offers a brief summary of a large number of TeX utilities (some more commonly used than others). Some of these programs are mentioned elsewhere in this book in connection with the particular tasks that they perform.
Although many programs are described in this chapter, there is no way that it can be entirely complete. There are just too many programs on CTAN for me to be familiar with all of them. This list is representative of the collection of programs present in the archives during the winter of 1993. Regrettably, programs not documented in English are not included at this time. Take the time to explore the CTAN archives yourself; you won't be disappointed.
Use the Web, Luke!
One of the most convenient online tools for searching the archives is the World Wide Web (WWW) interface available at http://jasper.ora.com/ctan.html. The WWW interface is constructed automatically from the most recent list of files in the CTAN archives with annotations taken from this chapter from the TeX-index, and from the ctan.dat descriptions maintained by the CTAN archivists.
This chapter attempts to describe only part of the archives. Here are some of the things that are not described in this chapter:
- The thirty or more packages in the archive-tools directory. This directory contains sources and executables for almost every archiving tool imaginable. If you retrieve a file from an FTP site and you don't have the tool necessary to unpack it, you'll probably ...
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