The TeX Catalogue Online

by Graham Williams

Alphabetically Indexed CTAN Edition


Section F


fancybox

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Provides variants of \fbox: \shadowbox, \doublebox, \ovalbox, \Ovalbox, with helpful tools for using box macros and flexible verbatim macros. You can box mathematics, floats, center, flushleft, and flushright, lists, and pages. (1998/03/2)


fancyhdr

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Support for sophisticated control of page headers and footers in LaTeX2e. Latest recorded version is 1.99b. (1998/09/9)


fancyref

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A LaTeX package for fancy cross-referencing. (1999/03/03)


fancyvrb

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Sophisticated handling of verbatim text including: verbatim commands in footnotes; a variety of verbatim environments with many parameters; ability to define new customized verbatim environments; save and restore verbatim text and environments; write and read files in verbatim mode; build ``example'' environments (showing both result and verbatim text). (1998/04/1)


faq

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The UK TeX Users Group Frequently Asked Questions. (1998/07/1)


fax

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Document class for preparing faxes. (1996/12/13)


fc

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Fonts for African languages, complementary to Computer Modern. Latest recorded version is 1.3. (1999/03/03)


fepslatex

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French version of esplatex. (1998/11/6)


feynmf

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Macros and fonts for creating Feynman (and other) diagrams. Latest recorded version is 1.08. (1996/05/30)


fihyph

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Hyphenation patterns for Finnish language. This is modified from fihyph.tex to make the Finnish accented letters to work with LaTeX2e, adding some \catcode, \uccode, and \lccode commands after the model used in the hyphenation files for the other European languages. (1998/11/6)


filehdr

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A collection of tools to support BibTeX style format for file/package descriptions.


finbib

Included in the TeXLive distribution in bibtex3

No description available. (1999/03/03)


finplain

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A Finnish version of `plain.bst'. (1998/06/29)


fix2col

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Fix miscellaneous two column mode features. Fix mark handling so that \firstmark is taken from the first column if that column has any marks at all; keep two column floats like figure* in sequence with single column floats like figure. (1999/04/11)


flabels

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Macros for typesetting pretty labels (optionally colored) for the back of files or binders (currently only the special a4 ``Leitz-Ordner'' ring binder is supported). (1997/07/21)


flatex

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A C program to flatten a LaTeX file into a single file, by explicitly including the files inclued by \include and \input commands. Also, if BibTeX is being used, then includes the bbl file into the resulting file. Thus, creating a stand alone LaTeX file that can be emailed to someone else. Latest recorded version is 1.21. See also flatten. (1996/09/24)


flatten

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A program to flatten a LaTeX root file by copying \input and \include files into the root file. See also flatex. (1996/06/18)


float

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Improves the interface for defining floating objects such as figures and tables. Introduces the boxed float and the ruled float. You can define your own floats and improve the behaviour of the old ones. Also incorporates the H option of the superseded here package. You can select this as automatic default with \floatplacement{figure}{H}. (1996/05/25)


floatfig

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Allows text to be wrapped around figures. See also floatflt. (1999/03/03)


floatflt

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Float text around figures and tables which do not span the full width of a page, improving upon floatfig, allowing tables/figures to be set left/right or alternating on even/odd pages. (1998/07/8)


fltpage

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Defines new environments for placing captions of tables and figures on the facing/following page. Latest recorded version is 0.3. (1998/11/19)


fncychap

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This package provides six predefined chapter headings. Each can be modified using a set of simple commands. Optionally one can modify the formatting routines in order to create additional chapter headings. This package was previously known as FancyChapter. (1996/12/13)


fnpara

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Typeset footnotes in run-on paragraphs, instead of one above another. See also endnotes, footmisc, and footnpag. (1996/09/10)


foilhtml

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Provides integration between FoilTeX and LaTeX2HTML, adding sectioning commands and elements of logical formatting to FoilTeX and providing support for FoilTeX commands in LaTeX2HTML. Latest recorded version is 1.2. (1999/03/03)


foiltex

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A LaTeX2e class for overhead transparencies. Can be used with fancybox to place a variety of borders around the slides. Latest recorded version is 2.1.3. See also seminar, and slidenotes. (1998/08/15)


fontinst

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TeX macros for converting Adobe Font Metric files to TeX metric and virtual font format. (1999/03/03)


fontmisc

Miscellaneous MetaFont input files. (1996/05/16)


fontname

Included in the TeXLive distribution in doc2

Karl Berry's scheme for naming fonts in TeX. (1999/03/03)


fonts

Extra line and circle fonts for LaTeX. (1996/05/16)


fontsmpl

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Print a sample of a font.


footbib

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A package to put bibliographic references as footnotes. (1997/06/19)


footmisc

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Footnotes with all the options. Captures as package options much (if not all) of the functionality of the various other footnote packages. See also endnotes, fnpara, footnpag, and ftnright. (1999/03/03)


footnpag

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Allows footnotes on individual pages to be numbered from 1, rather than being numbered sequentially through the document. See also endnotes, fnpara, and footmisc. (1996/09/10)


formats

Included in the TeXLive distribution in texlive2

Prebuilt TeX format and MetaFont base files. (1999/03/03)


formlett

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Letters to multiple recipients. See also akletter, brief, dinbrief, and envlab. (1997/05/27)


formula

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Support for physical symbols, ensuring the same shape in text and math mode, including some predefined physical units. Latest recorded version is 0.2. (1998/06/18)


fourtex

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A TeX environment for Win32. Includes spell checker, etc, all controled from a toolbar that can sit on top of your favourite editor. Latest recorded version is 5.0beta4. See also winshell. (1998/11/21)


fp

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Provides an extensive collection of arithmetic operations for fixed point real numbers of high precision. (1999/03/03)


fptex

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TeX for Winodws32. A dsitribution of TeX based on web2c and teTeX using InstallShield for installation. Latest recorded version is 0.3 beta5. (1999/04/2)


frankenbundle

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Develop and distribute groups of LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibstyles. Frankenbundle allows an author to maintain and distribute a bundle of one or more LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibliography styles, their documentation, and any support files with a high degree of sophistication, consistency, and convenience both for the author and their end users, who will receive the bundle in a form easy to understand and use.

The author using Frankenbundle needs a Unix-like environment, GNU Make (ftp://gnu.mit.edu/pub/gnu), and a rudimentary understanding of Makefiles. The end user does not need Make. Latest recorded version is 1.9, 1999/03/08. See also abbrevs, achicago, blkcntrl, compsci, lips, moredefs, relsize, slemph, titles, url, and verbatim. (10)


frankenstein

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A collection of LaTeX packages. Formerly known as monster (an obsolete, 8+3-compliant name), Frankenstein is a bundle of LaTeX packages serving various purposes and a BibTeX bibliography style. Descriptions are given under the individual packages: abbrevs, achicago package, achicago bibstyle, attrib, bits, blkcntrl, compsci, dialogue, drama, includex, lips, moredefs, newclude, slemph, titles. (10)


freefonts

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A collection of fonts distributed with the GIMP. (1998/09/10)


freetype

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A free, full-featured TrueType rasterizer library. Latest recorded version is 1.2. See also ttf2tfm. (1999/01/2)


french

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Style for French typography. (1999/03/03)


fribrief

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A LaTeX class for writing letters. (1998/01/20)


ftetx

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A TeX package for FTE (FTE = Folding Text Editor by Marko Macek) Adds a TeX menu system for FTE. Changes syntax highlighting for FTE's TeX-Mode. Runs TeX, dvi-drivers, ispell, etc., from FTE. Calls LaTeX help files from FTE. It is preconfigured for emTeX. (1998/02/24)


ftn

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LaTeX document-style option to make footnotes available in any environment, except inside floats. See also footmisc. (1996/09/10)


ftnright

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Footnotes in two column documents. See also endnotes, fnpara, and footmisc. (1999/03/03)


fullblck

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Used with the letter documentclass to set the letter in a fullblock style (everything at the left margin). (1998/11/18)


fullpict

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Full page pictures. (1999/02/18)


fundus

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Providing LaTeX access to various font families. (1999/03/03)


funnelweb

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A `Literate Programming' tool, which produces documentation for programs in TeX or LaTeX. (1999/03/03)


futhark

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Fonts for the Older Futhark script. (1999/03/03)