Announcements for required
required – Packages required
of a LaTeX distribution
These are packages that the LaTeX team have declared are
required
of any LaTeX distribution – in the sense
that any package writer is entitled to assume the
presence of these packages in support of her package.
The set comprises:
- AmsLaTeX, mathematical support from the AMS;
- The babel package for multilingual typesetting;
- Standard LaTeX support for using Cyrillic alphabet fonts;
- The standard LaTeX graphics and colour packages;
-
Basic support for using common Adobe Type 1 fonts with
LaTeX – the
psnfss
; and -
Basic
LaTeX latex-tools
.
For distribution details, see the individual packages’ catalogue entries.
| Package | required |
| Maintainer | The LaTeX Project Team Vladimir Volovich Sebastian Rahtz (deceased) Walter A. Schmidt (deceased) |
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