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. (2 Mar 1998)


fancyhdr

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


fancyref

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A LaTeX package for fancy cross-referencing. (3 Mar 1999)


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). (1 Apr 1998)


faq

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


fax

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Document class for preparing faxes. (13 Dec 1996)


fc

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Fonts for African languages, complementary to Computer Modern. Latest recorded version is 1.3. (3 Mar 1999)


fepslatex

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French version of esplatex. (6 Nov 1998)


feynmf

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


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. (6 Nov 1998)


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. (3 Mar 1999)


finplain

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


fix2col

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Fixes some two column mode features: 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 (like fixfloat). (3 Mar 1999)


fixfloat

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Modifies LaTeX's float handling mechanism so that double-column floats stay in sequence with single-column floats of the same type. Latest recorded version is 1.0, 1997/05/22. (23 May 1997)


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). (21 Jul 1997)


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. (24 Sep 1996)


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. (18 Jun 1996)


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}. (25 May 1996)


floatfig

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Allows text to be wrapped around figures. See also floatflt. (3 Mar 1999)


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. (8 Jul 1998)


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. (19 Nov 1998)


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. (13 Dec 1996)


fnpara

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


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. (3 Mar 1999)


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. (15 Aug 1998)


fontinst

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TeX macros for converting Adobe Font Metric files to TeX metric and virtual font format. (3 Mar 1999)


fontmisc

Miscellaneous MetaFont input files. (16 May 1996)


fontname

Included in the TeXLive distribution in doc2

Karl Berry's scheme for naming fonts in TeX. (3 Mar 1999)


fonts

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


fontsmpl

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Print a sample of a font.


footbib

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


footmisc

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Footnotes package for LaTeX capturing as package options much (if not all) of the functionality of the various other footnote packages. See also endnotes, fnpara, footnpag, and ftnright. (3 Mar 1999)


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. (10 Sep 1996)


formats

Included in the TeXLive distribution in texlive2

Prebuilt TeX format and MetaFont base files. (3 Mar 1999)


formlett

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


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. (18 Jun 1998)


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. (21 Nov 1998)


fp

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Provides an extensive collection of arithmetic operations for fixed point real numbers of high precision. (3 Mar 1999)


frankenstein

Included in the TeXLive distribution in latex3

The Frankenstein collection. A collection of 14 LaTeX tools and a BibTeX bibliography style.


freefonts

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


freetype

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


french

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Style for French typography. (3 Mar 1999)


fribrief

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A LaTeX class for writing letters. (20 Jan 1998)


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. (24 Feb 1998)


ftn

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


ftnright

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Footnotes in two column documents. See also endnotes, fnpara, and footmisc. (3 Mar 1999)


fullblck

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


fullpict

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Full page pictures. (18 Feb 1999)


fundus

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Providing LaTeX access to various font families. (3 Mar 1999)


funnelweb

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A `Literate Programming' tool, which produces documentation for programs in TeX or LaTeX. (3 Mar 1999)


futhark

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Fonts for the Older Futhark script. (3 Mar 1999)