1.2 Programs

This is a comprehensive list of the programs that can be found in the distribution:


Programs using the kpathsea library


TEX 3.14159 the TEX compiler
METAFONT 2.7182 the font compiler
MetaPost 0.641 graphic language along METAFONT style, produce nice postscript figures,
METAFONTware support tools for METAFONT
TEXware support tools for TEX
e-TEX 2.1 the e-TEX extension to TEX
Omega 1.11 a TEX extension towards Unicode (and much more)
pdfTEX 0.14f a TEXcompiler that can produce PDF
mktex* support programs for generating missing font files, fmtutil for building formats
BibTEX 0.99C the bibliography compiler
BibTEX8 3.71 the same, but rewritten in C and designed for 8 bits character sets
ChkTEX a TEX and LATEX syntax checker
CJK Utilities set of tools to handle Far-East fonts
dtl translates DVI files into human readable format and vice-versa
dvi2tty previews DVI files on a text mode console
dvidvi helps with pagination problems
dviljk 2.6 prints on LaserJet printers
dvipdfm 0.12.8b converts DVI into PDF format
dvipdfm 5.86d converts DVI into Postscript format
gsftopk 1.19.1 rasterizes Type 1 fonts into PK fonts
HBF to GF font format converter
Ispell Spell checker with American, English, German and French dictionaries, to be used in conjunction with Emacs
lacheck cheks your LATEX files without actually compiling them
ltx2rtf 4.3 converts LATEX files to RTF files
makindexk 2.13 processes index files
musixflx helps writing music
odvipsk converts Omega extended DVI files to Postscript
owindvi 0.67 previews Omega extended DVI files
ps2pkm 1.5 another rasterizer for Type 1 files
seetexk various tools to manipulate DVI files
t1utils 1.20 tools to assemble and disassemble Type 1 fonts
ttf2pfb, ttf2pk, ttfdump a collection of tools to manipulate TTF fonts
TEX4ht converts TEX or LATEX files to HTML
texinfo the GNU technical documentation package relying on TEX
windvi 0.67 previews DVI files


Other programs supplied


psutils a collection of tools to manipulate Postscript files
gzip, bzip2 compressors with their DLLs
PNG tools supplementary tools to handle PNG files
TIFF tools supplementary tools to handle TIFF files
Jpeg to PS converter from the JPEG format to Postscript
NetPBM a collection of tools to handle, transform and convert graphic files of various format
ImageMagick anoter collection of tools to handle, transform and convert graphic files of various format
TeXSetup the setup program
EPS to PDF converter using Ghostscript


Supplementary packages of interest


Ghostscript and Ghostview Postscript viewer system, comes in GPL’ed version and non-free (latest) version
NTEmacs 20.7 The Editor, preconfigured to run with AUC-TeX and Ispell
XEmacs 21.2b34 An enhanced Emacs (?)
Perl 5.6.0 Complete with Win32 bonus and Tcl/Tk 8.3.1
French.sty Style to typeset in French
PFE Generic editor configured for TEX
WinShell 2.0 TeX oriented editor
texshell TeX oriented editor


Among those packages, these pages have been build using TEX4ht, the very nice TEX to HTML translator by Eitan GURARI.