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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 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

The home page for CTAN is at https://ctan.org, which provides several features:

 * Browsing the CTAN directory
 * Browsing in the Catalogue (by package, author, or topic)
 * Searching in the Catalogue
 * An extensive list of mirrors


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:

 1. Sorted by name (This is a big file…around 20M bytes).
 2. 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 2020-03-31