

The use of tlmgr is covered in the Installation chapter. With TeX Live manually installed, use tlmgr to manage packages individually. For example, to install something related to internationalization, you might have to install a package like texlive-lang. With TeX Live, it is common to have the distribution packed into a few big packages. As a convenient feature, upon the compilation of a file requiring non-installed packages, MikTeX will automatically prompt to install the missing ones. With MikTeX there is a package manager that allows you to pick the package you want individually. If on an operating system with a package manager or a portage tree, you can often find packages in repositories.

To find out what other packages are available and what they do, you should use the CTAN search page which includes a link to Graham Williams' comprehensive package catalogue.Ī package is a file or collection of files containing extra LaTeX commands and programming which add new styling features or modify those already existing.

The directory name "texmf" stands for “TEX and METAFONT”.

They should all be stored in subdirectories of texmf/tex/latex named after each package. Dozens of these are pre-installed with LaTeX and can be used in your documents immediately. Collaborative Writing of LaTeX DocumentsĪdd-on features for LaTeX are known as packages.Scientific Reports (Bachelor Report, Master Thesis, Dissertation).
