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The Com­pre­hen­sive TeX Archive Net­work

The Com­pre­hen­sive TeX Archive Net­work (CTAN) is the cen­tral place for all kinds of ma­te­rial around TeX. CTAN has cur­rently 4478 pack­ages. They have been con­tributed by 2094 au­thors. Most of the pack­ages are free and can be down­loaded and used im­me­di­ately.

Search on CTAN

The con­tents of CTAN can be searched with full-text search. This search con­sid­ers the de­scrip­tion, the doc­u­men­ta­tion, and the au­thors.

If you want to have finer con­trol on the pa­ram­e­ters of the search you can use the ad­vanced search form in­stead.

Browse CTAN

This Web in­ter­face to CTAN pro­vides a view on the di­rec­to­ries and files in the archive. The files and some di­rec­to­ries as a whole can be im­me­di­ately be down­loaded. You can im­me­di­ately go to the

Con­tribute to CTAN

CTAN lives from the con­tri­bu­tions of soft­ware and pack­age au­thors. Thus you are heav­ily en­cour­aged to sub­mit your con­tri­bu­tion to the TeX world to CTAN. You can use a Web form to up­load your con­tri­bu­tion:

New on CTAN

An ac­tive TeX com­mu­nity takes care that CTAN is up­dated and ex­tended reg­u­larly. You can see what's new and even get in­formed about new or up­dated items on CTAN.

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Back­ground of CTAN

If you are in­ter­ested in the back­ground of the Com­pre­hen­sive TeX Archive Net­work you can read more on

TeXcollection 2012

CTAN on DVD

The con­tents of CTAN can be ob­tained on DVD.

The DVD is dis­tributed to the mem­bers of most TeX users groups. Con­sider be­com­ing a mem­ber of a users group if you want to get it.

TeX

TeX is a type­set­ting pro­gram de­signed for high-qual­ity com­po­si­tion of ma­te­rial that con­tains a lot of math­e­mat­i­cal and tech­ni­cal ex­pres­sions. It has been adopted by many au­thors and pub­lish­ers who gen­er­ate tech­ni­cal books and pa­pers. It was cre­ated by Pro­fes­sor Don­ald Knuth of Stan­ford Univer­sity, orig­i­nally for prepa­ra­tion of his book se­ries “The Art of Com­puter Pro­gram­ming”. TeX has been made freely avail­able by Knuth.

From these ori­gins a whole eco-sys­tem of dis­tri­bu­tions, macro pack­ages, and sup­port­ing pro­grams has arosen.

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Down­load a TeX Sys­tem

CTAN pro­vides com­plete ready-to run TeX sys­tems for var­i­ous plat­forms:

  • TeX Live a cross-plat­form TeX sys­tem. It in­cludes sup­port for most Unix-like sys­tems, in­clud­ing GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Win­dows.
  • MacTeX an easy to in­stall TeX sys­tem for Mac OS X, based on TeX Live. It also in­cludes a na­tive Mac in­staller, the TeXShop front-end, and ad­di­tional Mac-spe­cific tools.
  • proTeXt an easy to in­stall TeX sys­tem for Win­dows. It is based on MiKTeX, with a de­tailed doc­u­ment to guide your in­stal­la­tion and ad­di­tional Win­dows-spe­cific tools.

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User Groups

Many users of TeX and friends have found to­gether in var­i­ous user groups. The fol­low­ing ones are men­tioned be­cause they sup­port CTAN.

The TeX Users Group (TUG) is a not-for-profit or­ga­ni­za­tion by, for, and of its mem­bers, also rep­re­sent­ing the in­ter­ests of TeX users world­wide.

The Deutschsprachige An­wen­dervere­ini­gung TeX e.V. (DANTE) is the TeX users group for Ger­man speak­ing users.

more at tug.org…

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