Standard Packages
Several packages are available which give other functionality or extra
commands. Packages are included by the command
\usepackage[option]{packagelist}
which may appear between the \documentclass{} and the
\begin{document} lines. There can be several \usepackage
lines, and each of them processes the options of the \documentclass
as well as its own line.
Some of the standard packages are
-
alltt: provides the alltt environment which is
similar to verbatim but \, { and }
have their usual meaning.
- amsfonts: several strange
mathematical symbols and the \mathbb command for blackboard
characters,
- exscale: use \big, \Big, \bigg, \Bigg in
formulas before delimiters (brackets, vertical lines, etc).
- fontenc: font encoding
- fleqn: flush left equations (not centered)
- flafter float object should come after reference
- graphpap: defines the \graphpaper command
to be used in picture environment
- ifthen: various conditional structures
- inputenc: input file encoding
- latexsym: use LaTeX symbol font
- leqno: formula numbers go to left, not right
- makeidx: produce indices
- showidx: the argument of the \index command
is printed also on the page where it occurs
- cyrillic: everything you need for typing cyrillic fonts
- color: producing colorful pictures
- pslatex: to use postscipt fonts
- graphics to include separate
graphics from a file