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 * prosper ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00007.html Victor Munoz])  * [http://packages.debian.org/etch/prosper prosper] Prosper is a LaTeX class for writing transparencies. It is written on top of the seminar class by Timothy Van Zandt.
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 * latex-beamer (debian package exists) [http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ upstream]  * [http://packages.debian.org/stable/latex-beamer latex-beamer] ([http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ upstream]) The beamer class is a LaTeX class that allows you to create a beamer presentation. It can also be used to create slides.
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 * [ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/ite/index.html ite] (not yet packaged) Position figure labels interactively.
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 * [http://packages.debian.org/sid/jabref jabref] JabRef is a GUI to manage BibTeX databases, the standard LaTeX bibliography reference format. JabRef is built to be platform independent (requires Java 1.5). It merges and extends the functionalities of BibKeeper (Morten O. Alver) and JBibtexManager (Nizar Batada).

Known users from DebianScience listed in parenthesis.

Typesetting

Typesetting tools already packaged in Debian

Viewers

Useful for slides and posters

Emacs extensions for LaTeX

Others

Publishing tools that could be considered for inclusion in Debian

Drawing Feynman diagrams

Bibliographies

Managing bibliographies

Tools for handling bibliographies that could be considered for inclusion in Debian

Name

Task

Licence

Package

[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=69446 Biomail] [http://biomail.sourceforge.net/biomail/ upstream]

Surveying

GPL

[http://refdb.sourceforge.net/ RefDB]

Database

GPL

[http://refdb.sourceforge.net/install.html#debian upstream]

[http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~tapted/bib2endnote.html bib2endnote]

Converter

GPLv2

depens on Java

[http://bioinformatics.org/librarian/ Librarian]

PDF article indexing

GPL

depends on php/mysql/apache

[http://gpapers.org/ gPapers]

Bibliography management

GPL

depends on python