The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) is the central place for all kinds of material around TeX. CTAN has currently 5916 packages. 2718 contributors have contributed to it. Most of the packages are free and can be downloaded and used immediately.

Activity on CTAN An active TeX community takes care that CTAN is updated and extended regularly. CTAN receives usually more than 100 uploads per month. Here appears a respective diagram in newer browsers.

Search on CTAN The contents of CTAN can be searched with full-text search. This search considers the description, the documentation, and the contributors. If you want to have finer control on the parameters of the search you can use the advanced search form instead.

Browse CTAN This Web interface to CTAN provides a view on the directories and files in the archive. The files and some directories as a whole can be immediately be downloaded. You can immediately go to the archive directory

list of packages

list of topics

list of contributors

Contribute to CTAN CTAN lives from the contributions of software and package contributors. Thus you are strongly encouraged to submit your contribution to the TeX world to CTAN. You can use a Web form to upload your contribution: upload form

Background of CTAN If you are interested in the background of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network you can read more on What is CTAN?

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