Re: latex packages

[Graham Williams <Graham.Williams@cmis.CSIRO.AU>]

Received Thu 24 Jan 2002 12:12pm +1100 from martin f krafft:
> also sprach nori heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> [2002.01.24.0203 +0100]:
> > copying the list because i don't know, and i certainly didn't write it
> > myself.  i just have it, and i find that explicitly setting the
> > margins gives much better results -- i hate those huge top margins,
> > too.  anyone know where to get extra LaTeX packages?
> 
> the geometry package is in Debian's 'tetex-extra' package.
> 
> and check [1] for more TeX packages, which Debian doesn't provide...
> 
>   1. http://www.ctan.org/

The geometry package is often the right way to go. Also, have a look
at

      /usr/share/doc/texmf/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html

for a list of many LaTeX packages.

Regards,
Graham