CTAN: Comprehensive TeX Archive Network CTAN provides complete ready-to run T e X systems for various platforms: T e X Live a cross-platform T e X system It includes support for most Unix-like systems, including GNU Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows Mac T e X an easy to install T e X system for Mac OS X, based on T e X Live
The CTAN archive CTAN on the Web The home page for CTAN is at https: ctan org, which provides several features: Browsing the CTAN directory; Browsing in the Catalogue (by package, author, or topic) Searching in the Catalogue; An extensive list of mirrors; Searching CTAN
CTAN: Package texlive Beware: the download from CTAN is large (several GB); it comes in the form of an ISO image, and is available from CTAN mirrors through the `Sources' link below Other ways to acquire T e X Live include network installation, tarballs, and mirroring
CTAN: Starting out with TeX, LaTeX, and friends Finally, this site, CTAN, is our community's archive; if you are looking for something then chances are good that we have it But wait, there's more! The T e X Users Group has a more extensive introduction than this page
CTAN: Sites This list contains the known active mirrors of the CTAN They are listed by location (alphabetically, by continent, then by country) Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America
CTAN: TeX Location: CTAN T e X What are T e X and its friends? T e X and associated programs such as L a T e X is a system for computer typesetting of documents It is well known for its skill with mathematical and scientific text and other difficult typesetting jobs: long or complicated and multi-lingual documents
CTAN: Package geometry Location: CTAN Packages geometry geometry – Flexible and complete interface to document dimensions The package provides an easy and flexible user interface to customize page layout, implementing auto-centering and auto-balancing mechanisms so that the users have only to give the least description for the page layout
CTAN: Package xcolor Location: CTAN Packages xcolor xcolor – Driver-independent color extensions for L a T e X and pdf L a T e X The package starts from the basic facilities of the color package, and provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of color tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors