On Fri, 02 Nov 2001 13:58:33 +0100 wrote Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Rich Shepard wrote: > > Thank you very much. In the general case, should I make a list of all > > LaTeX packages on CTAN and scan those to learn what's available? Otherwise, > > what is the most effective way to learn how to do all the things that can be > > done with existing packages? > > a simple search on CTAN does it: > > http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/CTANcataloguesearch.pl?CATSTRING=draft Another nice possibility to browse all that is there (without knowing what to search for) is The TeX Catalogue Online by Graham Williams (CSIRO Australia). It has a short description of many (all?) the packages and helpers in the CTAN (+ some more) with links to homepages and ftp-downloads. (with some indizes: The Alphabetic Index (80K) lists the name of each entry with a link to the full entry. The Brief Index (300K) has a short description of each entry and a link to the full entry. The Hierarchical Index (200K) is based on the CTAN hierarchy with links to full entries. ) I have it "on board" with my tetex installation (by SuSE) as file:/usr/share/texmf/doc/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html but it also is part of every CTAN mirror, e.g. Dante has it as ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html Guenter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
