Graham Williams
CSIRO Australia

Topic Index by Juergen Fenn

Note: Every systematical order is arbitrary in some way or another. This is why entries may appear in more than one place. The following order generally keeps to that of the `LaTeX Companion'.

Contents

• References and Manuals

• Applications
  • (La)TeX Distributions
    • Unices
    • DOS
    • OS/2
    • Windows
    • Macintosh
    • Misc
  • ConTeXt and Omega
  • Editors
  • Drivers, Viewers, and Plugins

• Alternative Document Classes

• Document Structure
  • Abstract
  • Table of Contents
  • Changing the Counting of Chapters
  • Crossreferences
  • Footnotes and Endnotes
  • Appendix
• Formatting
  • Enumerating and Listing Items
  • Verbatim Input and Simulating the Typewriter
• Page Layout
  • Page Margins
  • Page Headings
• Columns and Tables
• Floats

• Fonts
• Including Graphics
• PostScript Support
• Creating PDF Documents
• Converters
  • TeX to HTML
  • HTML to TeX
  • TeX to Word Processor
  • Misc

• Combining Documents

• Creating Indices and Glossaries
• Bibliography

• Multilingual Support
  • The babel Package
  • Chinese, Japanese, Korean
  • Dutch
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Tibetan

• `Office' Applications
  • Writing Letters
  • Keeping Lists of Addresses
  • Calendars and Date
  • Writing Applications for a Job
  • Business Cards
  • Envelopes
  • Labels
  • Leaflets
  • Writing Invoices
  • Presentations and Overhead Slides
• Science
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science
  • The Humanities
  • Jurisprudence
• Music
• Recipes
• Documenting Games
• CD and MC Covers

• Developing LaTeX Packages

Note: ~/help and ~/info should be completed (several FAQs and guides).

Note: texlive provides tetex for Unices (including Mac OS X) and fptex for Windows.

DOS: emtex

OS/2: emtex-os2 emTeX/TDS VTeX/Free

Windows: bakoma-fonts bakoma-games bakoma-malvern bakoma emtexgi fptex miktex-axp miktex web2c-win32

Macintosh:

Note: ozTeX should be added (~/nonfree/systems/mac/oztex)

Misc: amiweb2c

ConTeXt and Omega:

Editors:

Note: These class files provide an alternative to the usual LaTeX article, report, or book classes. There are some alternatives to letter.cls, too. These are used to change document layout in general and they usually provide some special features, as well. You should check the class file documentation first to make shure whether you can use options or commands that are part of the respective package before considering the use of one of the packages listed further below.

Table of Contents:

Changing the Counting of Chapters:

Crossreferences:

Footnotes and Endnotes:

Enumerating and Listing Items:

Verbatim Input and Simulating the Typewriter:

Note: On font selection also see Postscript support and Creating PDF Documents.

This section also lists packages that make selecting fonts easier.

The babel Package:

Dutch:

French:

German:

Note: ngerman.sty provides support for new German spelling. It replaces german.sty for those who prefer to keep to the new standards. Both are part of german.

Greek:

Note: For typesetting ancient Greek use the babel package with the option polutonikogreek. See The Humanities for more references on the Humanities.

Writing Letters:

Note: The koma-script bundle provides a letter class of its own called scrlttr2.

Keeping Lists of Addresses:

Note: The koma-script bundle provides scraddr that goes with the scrlttr2 letter class for using address data in letters.

Calendars and Date:

Writing Applications for a Job:

Business Cards:

Envelopes:

Labels:

Leaflets:

Writing Invoices:

Presentations and Overhead Slides:

Mathematics:

Physics:

Chemistry:

Computer Science:

The Humanities:

Note: For typesetting ancient Greek use the babel package with the option polutonikogreek. See Greek for more references to the Greek language.

Jurisprudence:

mceinleger.sty provides covers for music cassettes.