Scott Pakin's La Te X stuff
I'm a big fan of the La Te X typesetting
system . To make it even better I have authored a number of
packages (written in La Te X itself), scripts (written in other programming
languages), and documents (written in English and typeset with La Te X). All of my
packages, scripts, and documents are freely available from the Comprehensive Te X
Archive Network (CTAN) .
Packages
attachfile Attach an arbitrary file to a pdfLa Te X-produced PDF
document.
bytefield Typeset network-protocol diagrams.
comicsans Make
Microsoft's Comic Sans font available to (La )Te X.
cooltooltips Associate a pop-up window and tooltip with a PDF hyperlink.
covfonts Make
Apostrophic Lab's Covington font available to (La )Te X.
dashrule Draw a huge variety of dashed lines.
dingbat Make the Te X ark10.mf
and dingbat.mf
symbol fonts available to (La )Te X.
eqparbox Produce equal-widthed text boxes.
filecontents Eliminate unnecessary restrictions on La Te X's
filecontents and filecontents* environments.
IEEEconf Typeset conference papers according the IEEE Computer Society
Press's guidelines.
hyperxmp Embed XMP metadata within
a La Te X-produced
document.
leawood Make the (commercial) ITC Leawood font family available to (La) Te X.
listliketab Produce tables that look just like itemized or enumerated
lists.
mftinc Include pretty-printed METAFONT
listings in La Te X.
perltex Enable La Te X
macros to be defined in terms of Perl code.
savetrees Pack as much text as possible onto a page.
uiucredborder Fill out the "red-bordered form" needed to submit a thesis to
the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign .
Scripts
bundledoc Bundle together all of the files needed to build a La Te X document.
mf2pt1 Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts from stylized METAFONT source.
newcommand Simplify the creation of La Te X macros that require complex
argument-processing.
pkfix-helper Help pkfix
process PostScript files produced by ancient versions of dvips
purifyeps Convert an ordinary Encapsulated PostScript file
(.eps ) into one that works with both La Te X (Dvips) and
pdfLa Te X.
Documents
The
Comprehensive La Te X Symbol List Organized list of thousands of symbols that are accessible from
La Te X
How to
Package Your La Te X Package Tutorial on creating the .ins and .dtx files
used to distribute La Te X classes and style files
The
Visual La Te X
FAQ Novel interface to the UK
Te X FAQ in which the reader clicks on a
typeset example in a PDF file to open a Web browser at a page
describing how that example was typeset
scott-26673f3e@pakin.org
