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The TeX Live software distribution offers a complete TeX system for a variety of Unix, Macintosh, Windows and other platforms. It encompasses programs for editing, typesetting, previewing and printing of TeX documents in many different languages, and a large collection of TeX macros and font libraries. The distribution includes extensive general documentation about TeX, as well as the documentation for the included software packages.
The beamer LaTeX class can be used for producing slides. The class works in both PostScript and direct PDF output modes, using the pgf graphics system for visual effects. Content is created in the frame environment, and each frame can be made up of a number of slides using a simple notation for specifying material to appear on each slide within a frame. Short versions of title, authors, institute can also be specified as optional parameters. Whole frame graphics are supported by plain frames. The class supports figure and table environments, transparency effects, varying slide transitions and animations. Beamer also provides compatibility with other packages like prosper. The package now incorporates the functionality of the former translator package, which is used for customising the package for use in other language environments. Beamer depends on the following other packages: atbegshi, etoolbox, hyperref, ifpdf, pgf, and translator.
The package contains the Bera Type 1 fonts, and a zip archive containing files to use the fonts with LaTeX. Bera is a set of three font families: Bera Serif (a slab-serif Roman), Bera Sans (a Frutiger descendant), and Bera Mono (monospaced/typewriter). Support for use in LaTeX is also provided. The Bera family is a repackaging, for use with TeX, of the Bitstream Vera family. date: 2008-01-28 20:53:41 +0100
The package contains the Bera Type 1 fonts, and a zip archive containing files to use the fonts with LaTeX. Bera is a set of three font families: Bera Serif (a slab-serif Roman), Bera Sans (a Frutiger descendant), and Bera Mono (monospaced/typewriter). Support for use in LaTeX is also provided. The Bera family is a repackaging, for use with TeX, of the Bitstream Vera family.
Typeset a LaTeX2e document with the Concrete fonts designed by Don Knuth and used in his book "Concrete Mathematics".
BibLaTeX is a complete reimplementation of the bibliographic facilities provided by LaTeX. Formatting of the bibliography is entirely controlled by LaTeX macros, and a working knowledge of LaTeX should be sufficient to design new bibliography and citation styles. BibLaTeX uses its own data backend program called "biber" to read and process the bibliographic data. With biber, BibLaTeX has many features rivalling or surpassing other bibliography systems. To mention a few: Full Unicode support Highly customisable sorting using the Unicode Collation Algorithm + CLDR tailoring Highly customisable bibliography labels Complex macro-based on-the-fly data modification without changing your data sources A tool mode for transforming bibliographic data sources Multiple bibliographies and lists of bibliographic information in the same document with different sorting Highly customisable data source inheritance rules Polyglossia and babel suppport for automatic language switching for bibliographic entries and citations Automatic bibliography data recoding (UTF-8 -> latin1, LaTeX macros -> UTF-8 etc) Remote data sources Highly sophisticated automatic name and name list disambiguation system Highly customisable data model so users can define their own bibliographic data types Validation of bibliographic data against a data model Subdivided and/or filtered bibligraphies, bibliographies per chapter, section etc. Apart from the features unique to BibLaTeX, the package also incorporates core features of the following packages: babelbib, bibtopic, bibunits, chapterbib, cite, inlinebib, mcite and mciteplus, mlbib, multibib, splitbib. The package strictly requires e-TeX BibTeX, bibtex8, or Biber etoolbox 2.1 or later logreq 1.0 or later keyval ifthen url Biber, babel / polyglossia, and csquotes 4.4 or later are strongly recommended.
BibTeX allows the user to store his citation data in generic form, while printing citations in a document in the form specified by a BibTeX style, to be specified in the document itself (one often needs a LaTeX citation-style package, such as natbib as well). BibTeX itself is an ASCII-only program; there is, however, a version that copes with 8-bit character sets. However, BibTeX's facilities rapidly run out as one moves away from simple ASCII (for example, in the various national sorting rules for languages expressed in different parts of ISO-8859 -- the "ISO Latin" series). For more flexibility, the user is urged to consider using biber with biblatex to typeset its output. In fact, it is best to avoid BibTeX in favour of biber and biblatex, if at all possible.
A convenient interface for typesetting bidirectional texts with plain TeX and LaTeX. The package includes adaptations for use with many other commonly-used packages.