Help

Where can I get help on TeX, LaTeX, and friends?

There are many re­sources avail­able to con­tact the TeX com­mu­nity to ask for help. For in­stance see 1 and 2 for fur­ther in­for­ma­tion.

Note: The CTAN team can not pro­vide in­di­vid­ual sup­port for prob­lems with TeX or ques­tions.

Where can I re­port prob­lems or re­quest fea­tures for pack­ages on CTAN?

Feed­back on the por­tal it­self – not the con­tent – can be placed in the Guest Book. This is meant for state­ments. Don't ex­pect that some­one dis­cusses via this page.

If you want to dis­cuss some­thing use the pub­lic mail­ing list to which you can sub­scribe un­der

https://lists.dante.de/mail­man/listinfo/ctan­web

The sub­scrip­tion to this mail­ing list is mod­er­ated. Thus it may take a few sec­onds…

Where can I re­quest fea­tures for the por­tal?

Your chances to get a fea­ture into the CTAN por­tal in­crease if you do not just re­quest some­thing but pro­pose to con­tribute some­thing. Keep this in mind when you make a pro­posal.

The pre­ferred com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nel is the pub­lic mail­ing list to which you can sub­scribe un­der

https://lists.dante.de/mail­man/listinfo/ctan­web

The sub­scrip­tion to this mail­ing list is mod­er­ated. Thus it may take a few sec­onds…

How can I get rid of these HTMLi­fied TeX lo­gos?

You can se­lect a skin which suits you best. Some of them are us­ing text rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the lo­gos. Espe­cially the plain skins are of this type. The skin can be se­lected un­der Set­tings which is ac­ces­si­ble on each page. The se­lected skin is stored in a cookie of the Browser. Thus no lo­gin is re­quired for this fea­ture.

How can I get rid of the vary­ing ap­pear­ance of the pages?

If you don't have cho­sen your fa­vorite skin the de­fault skin is used. The de­fault skin can vary tak­ing into ac­count sea­sonal events. If you don't like this you can sim­ply se­lect a fixed skin un­der Set­tings which is ac­ces­si­ble on each page.