The TeX Catalogue Online

by Graham Williams

Alphabetically Indexed CTAN Edition


Section P


pacioli

Included in the TeXLive distribution in fonts3

Fonts designed by Fra Luca de Pacioli in 1497. The font is uppercase letters together with punctuation and some analphabetics; no lowercase or digits.


pagedraw

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A free vector-graphics program capable of creating EPS files suitable for inclusion in TeX documents.


pageno

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A LaTeX package that can re-define the plain page style under the control of options, so you can have page numbers: at the top or bottom of the page; in the inside corner, outside corner, or in the middle. It was inspired by Axel Sommerfeldt's rplain package. (23 Sep 1998)


pandey

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Support for the Bengali language. See also arosgn. (30 Sep 1998)


pandora

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The Pandora font family. (3 Mar 1999)


paper

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A class derived from article, tuned for producing papers for journals. Introduces new layout options and font commands for sections/parts. Defines a new keywords environment, and subtitle and institution commands for the title section. New commands for revisions. And more. Latest recorded version is 1g. (20 May 1996)


paradissa

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Free TeX fonts in PostScript () format. Contains the families: Computer Modern (designed by D. Knuth); Euler (H. Zapf); Computer Modern Cyrillic (N. Glonty and A. Samarin); Special LaTeX fonts. (14 Jun 1996)


paralist

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Provides enumerate and itemize environments that can be used within paragraphs and format the items either as running text or as separate paragraphs with a preceding number or symbol. (21 Jan 1999)


parallel

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Provides a parallel environment which allows two columns of text to be typeset. Useful for typesetting two languages side-by-side.


patch

Included in the TeXLive distribution in latex2

Macros for package management. (3 Mar 1999)


path

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A LaTeX package to break long strings at convenient places. The strings might be directory paths, email addresses, URLs, etc. (3 Mar 1999)


pawpict

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Using graphics from PAW. Support for the easy inclusion of graphics made by PAW (Physics Analysis Workstation). You need to have PAW installed on your system to benefit from this package. This package is now obsolete and will not be supported anymore. Latest recorded version is 24 Dec 1998, v1.0. (3 Mar 1999)


pb-diagram

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A diagram package using LAMSTeX or Xy-pic fonts. Latest recorded version is 5.0. (30 Nov 1998)


pbmtogf

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Convert pbm images to gf font files. A package to convert a pbm (portable bitmap) file to a gf (font) and a pl (perl) file, effectively creating a font from the bitmap. The font can then be used in any TeX/LaTeX files. (24 Mar 1999)


pcfonts

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Support for Hebrew. (21 Oct 1996)


pdcmac

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Damian Cugley's macro tools. (3 Mar 1999)


pdfscreen

Included in the TeXLive distribution in latex3

Support screen-based document design. An extension of the hyperref package to provide a screen-based document design. See also hyperref.


pdftex

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An extension of TeX which directly generates PDF documents instead of DVI. This is under development and regarded as beta software. Latest recorded version is 0.1. (13 Aug 1998)


pdftex-djgpp

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A PDFTeX executable compiled with DJGPP v.2.01, to be used with the DJGPP v.2.01 port of web2c for DOS and Windows 95. (23 Feb 1998)


permute

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A package for symmetric groups, allowing you to input, output, and calculate with them. (28 Dec 1998)


pf2afm

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A PostScript program for geberating missing AFM files from PFB/PFA and (optionally) PFM font files. Latest recorded version is 1.0. (3 Mar 1999)


phoenician

Included in the TeXLive distribution in fonts3

Fonts for the semitic script in use from about 1600 BC. This font formed the basis for all the world's alphabets. Mirrored forms are provided for typesetting either left-to-right or right-to-left (as the Phoenicians did)


phonetic

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MetaFont Phonetic fonts, based on Computer Modern. (3 Mar 1999)


phppcf

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A BibTeX style derived from apalike with author names in all caps. (14 Jun 1996)


physe

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PHYSE format. (3 Mar 1999)


phyzzx

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A TeX format for physicists. (3 Mar 1999)


picinpar

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Insert pictures into paragraphs. (NOTE: Piet van Oostrum does not recommend this package. Picins is recommended instead.) (3 Mar 1999)


picins

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Insert pictures into paragraphs.


pictex

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Picture drawing macros for (\La)TeX. See also m-pictex, qfig, and epic. (3 Mar 1999)


piff

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Macro tools by Mike Piff. (3 Mar 1999)


piq

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MetaFont package for the Klingon language with okuda orthography. (17 Nov 1996)


pkfind

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The TDS standard specifies that pk and gf files contain \special strings to identify the contents of pk and gf files. Pkfind is a variant of the GNU find utility modified to understand those specials, and to act on them in some cases. For example, it can be used to delete all pk files created by gsftopk from a subdirectory tree. Latest recorded version is 1.0. (3 Mar 1999)


pl

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Literate Programming for Prolog with LaTeX. (3 Mar 1999)


pl-mf

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Polish extension of Computer Modern fonts in MF sources. See also plpsfont. (08 Feb 1998)


pl-qx

Included in the TeXLive distribution in fonts2

LaTeX support for extra Polish fonts (Antyktor etc.). (3 Mar 1999)


plain

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The plain.sty package defines an environment which allows plain TeX commands in LaTeX.


plainmisc

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Miscellaneous useful macros for plain TeX. (3 Mar 1999)


plaintex

Included in the TeXLive distribution in plain1

Basic Plain TeX macros. (3 Mar 1999)


plari

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A document class for typesetting stageplay scripts. (6 Nov 1998)


platex

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Tools to typeset documents in Polish using LaTeX2e with Polish fonts (so-called PL fonts), EC fonts, and CM fonts. Latest recorded version is v1.01. (3 Mar 1999)


play

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Typeset plays. A class and style file that supports the typesetting of plays, including options for line numbering. (28 Mar 1999)


plcalendar

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Plain macros for making nice calendars. See also calendar, kalendar, and termcal. (3 Mar 1999)


plfonts

Included in the TeXLive distribution in fonts2

Polish fonts. (3 Mar 1999)


plgraph

Included in the TeXLive distribution in generic3

LaTeX graphics package with wrapper to allow it to be used with generic plain TeX. (3 Mar 1999)


plpatch

Included in the TeXLive distribution in plain3

No description available. (3 Mar 1999)


plpsfont

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Polish extension of Computer Modern fonts, PL fonts in PostScript format. Use the same tfm files as for pk fonts generated by MetaFont. Latest recorded version is 1.02. See also pl-mf. (3 Mar 1999)


pmcstex

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A macro package that implements many (em)TeX related features for the OS/2 EPM editor. A menu item is added to the EPM menu, a new toolbar is provided, and hotkeys for some (\La)TeX commands are defined. (27 Nov 1997)


pmgraph

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A set of extensions to LaTeX picture environment, including a wider range of vectors, and a lot more box frame styles. (3 Mar 1999)


poligraf

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Page preparation for prepress, color separation, crop-marks, color and gray scale bars, booklet preparation, etc. (3 Mar 1999)


polish

Included in the TeXLive distribution in doc3

General TeX and LaTeX documentation in Polish. (3 Mar 1999)


polyglot

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A package for LaTeX2e multilingual support. Latest recorded version is 1.1. (3 Mar 1999)


ppchtex

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A package that can be used to typeset chemical formulas. The package is a separate module of the context macro package for TeX (context is a full featured, parameter driven macro package, which fully supports advanced interactive documents). (15 Jan 1997)


prelim2e

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Allows the marking of preliminary versions of a document. Latest recorded version is 1.21. (3 Mar 1999)


prettyref

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Additional functionality for the LaTeX2e label--reference mechanism allowing the ``preformat'' of all types of labels. This package is compatible with hyperref and other packages. Latest recorded version is 3.0. (29 Jul 1998)


progkeys

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The file `programs.sty' is intended to allow a parameterized way of typesetting programs with TeX/LaTeX commands inside. The file `keywords.sty' allows definition and use of sets of keywords that will be typeset with different fonts, according to the wish of the user. (3 Mar 1999)


program

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Typesetting programs and algorithms. (3 Mar 1999)


proofs

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Macros for building proof trees. (3 Mar 1999)


protex

Included in the TeXLive distribution in generic3

Literate programming package.


prv

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A Perl script for compiling, previewing, and printing LaTeX documents. Derived from LatexMk version 2.0. Latest recorded version is 0.5. (11 Dec 1998)


ps_conv

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A PostScript program for converting one-page PostScript files into and EPS (encapsulated PostScript) files acceptable by CorelDRAW!(R), Adobe Illustrator(TM) and Fontographer(R). (3 Mar 1999)


ps_view

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A PostScript preamble providing an interactive environement for fast previewing of PostScript documents with GhostScript, enabling scaling rotation, grids, printing specified pages, on-line help etc. Latest recorded version is 2.01. (3 Mar 1999)


psboxit

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Enables one to put a PostScript drawing behind a TeX box. The drawing is parameterised by the position and the size of the TeX box.


psfig

Included in the TeXLive distribution in generic3

No description available. (3 Mar 1999)


psfixbb

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Computes the BoundingBox of a PostScript file settin the BoundingBox comment in the file accordingly, using GhostScript, pnmfile and pnmcrop. (23 Jun 1998)


psfont

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Intended as a replacement for psfonts of psnfss, psfont uses one file for redefining all default fonts instead of one file for each font. It also contains all parts of psfonts.dtx which are not covered by this general concept (i.e., the pifonts, mathptm and two fd-files for Adobe Symbol and Adobe Zapf Dingbats). This file is specific to PostScript fonts. See also psfonts, and psnfss. (3 Mar 1999)


psfonts

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PostScript fonts for use with TeX and LaTeX. (13 May 1997)


psfrag

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Allows LaTeX constructions (equations, picture environments, etc.) to be precisely superimposed over Encapsulated PostScript figures, using your own favorite drawing tool to create an EPS figure and placing simple text ``tags'' where each replacement is to be placed, with PSfrag automatically removing these tags from the figure and replacing them with a user specified LaTeX construction, properly aligned, scaled, and/or rotated. Latest recorded version is 3.04. (24 Jun 1998)


psizzl

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A TeX format from SLAC. (3 Mar 1999)


pslatex

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A small package that makes LaTeX default to `standard' PostScript fonts. It is basically a merger of the times and mathptm styles from the psnfss suite of packages. You must have installed standard LaTeX and the psnfss PostScript fonts to use this package. The main novel feature is that the pslatex package tries to compensate for the visual differences between the Adobe fonts by scaling Helvetica by 90\%, and `condensing' Courier (i.e. scaling horizontally) by 85\%. The package is supplied with a (unix) shell file for a `pslatex' command that allows standard LaTeX documents to be processed, without needing to edit the file. (3 Mar 1999)


psmerge

Concatenate PostScript files as long as they have been generated by the same program (e.g., generated by dvips). (1 Nov 1996)


psnfss

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Font definition files, macros and font metrics for common PostScript fonts. (3 Mar 1999)


psnfssx

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Extra styles and encodings for PS fonts, including Y\&Y encoding support. (3 Mar 1999)


pspicture

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Replacement for core LaTeX picture macros to use PostScript \special commands. (3 Mar 1999)


pstotext

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A free (but copyright) Unix program that extracts ASCII text from PostScript and PDF (Acrobat) files. pstotext uses GhostScript, but does a more careful job with kerned characters and nonstandard font encodings than Ghostscript's ps2ascii utility. (31 Oct 1996)


pstricks

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An extensive collection of PostScript macros that is compatible with most TeX macro packages, including Plain TeX, LaTeX, AMS-TeX, and AMS-LaTeX. Included are macros for color, graphics, pie charts, rotation, trees and overlays. It has many special features, including: a wide variety of graphics (picture drawing) macros, with a flexible interface and with color support. There are macros for coloring or shading the cells of tables. See also color, colortab, fancybox, and shading. (30 May 1996)


psutils

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Utilities for manipulating PostScript documents, including page selection and rearrangement, resizing the page, arrangement into signatures for booklet printing, and page merging for n-up printing. Utilities include psbook, psselect, pstops, psnup, psresize, epsffit.


punk

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Donald Knuth's punk font (3 Mar 1999)