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Summary
Typesetting
Debian Med support for typesetting and publishing

This metapackage will install Debian packages that might be helpful for typesetting and publishing in medical care and structural biology.

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Description

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If you discover a project which looks like a good candidate for Debian Med to you, or if you have prepared an unofficial Debian package, please do not hesitate to send a description of that project to the Debian Med mailing list

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Debian Med Typesetting packages

Official Debian packages with high relevance

king
??? missing short description for package king :-(
Versions of package king
ReleaseVersionArchitectures
bullseye2.23.161103+dfsg1-4all
sid2.24+dfsg2-4all
forky2.24+dfsg2-4all
trixie2.24+dfsg2-2all
bookworm2.24+dfsg2-1all
upstream2.25-rc8
Popcon: 15 users (6 upd.)*
Newer upstream!
 License: DFSG free
Git
texlive-latex-extra
??? missing short description for package texlive-latex-extra :-(
Versions of package texlive-latex-extra
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bullseye2020.20210202-3all
bookworm2022.20230122-4all
forky2026.20260328-5all
trixie2024.20250309-2all
sid2026.20260328-5all
Debtags of package texlive-latex-extra:
made-offont, tex
roleapp-data
usetypesetting
works-withfont, text
works-with-formatpdf, tex
Popcon: 4159 users (1380 upd.)*
Versions and Archs
 License: DFSG free
Git
Screenshots of package texlive-latex-extra
Remark of Debian Med team: For biologists specifically texshade.sty is interesting

The texlive-latex-extra package contains a lot of interesting LaTeX styles for different purposes. As a biologist you are most probably interested in

 TeXShade: http://www.uni-kiel.de/Pharmazie/chem/Prof_Beitz/texshade.htm

You might like to install texlive-latex-extra-doc as well and read the documents in

 /usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-extra-doc/latex/texshade/
texlive-science
??? missing short description for package texlive-science :-(
Versions of package texlive-science
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trixie2024.20250309-2all
bookworm2022.20230122-4all
bullseye2020.20210202-3all
forky2026.20260328-5all
sid2026.20260328-5all
Debtags of package texlive-science:
fieldbiology, chemistry, electronics, mathematics, physics
made-oftex
roleapp-data
sciencepublishing
usetypesetting
works-withgraphs, text
works-with-formattex
Popcon: 2648 users (825 upd.)*
Versions and Archs
 License: DFSG free
Git
Other screenshots of package texlive-science
VersionURL
2025.20260124https://screenshots.debian.net/screenshot/texlive-science/29131
2025.20260124https://screenshots.debian.net/screenshot/texlive-science/29133
 Screenshots of package texlive-science
Remark of Debian Med team: For biologists specifically biotex.sty and textopo.sty are interesting

The texlive-science package contains a lot of interesting LaTeX styles for different sciences. As a biologist you are most probably interested in

 TeXTopo: http://www.uni-kiel.de/Pharmazie/chem/Prof_Beitz/textopo.htm

You might like to install texlive-science-doc as well and read the documents in

 /usr/share/doc/texlive-science-doc/latex/textopo/

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

biber
??? missing short description for package biber :-(
Versions of package biber
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sid2.21-2all
forky2.21-2all
bullseye2.16-1all
trixie2.20-2all
bookworm2.18-1all
Popcon: 508 users (330 upd.)*
Versions and Archs
 License: DFSG free
Git
kbibtex
??? missing short description for package kbibtex :-(
Versions of package kbibtex
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trixie0.10.0-4amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
bullseye0.9.90-1amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
bookworm0.9.90-1.1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
forky0.10.0-4amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
sid0.10.0-4amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
Debtags of package kbibtex:
interfacex11
roleprogram
uitoolkitqt
useediting
works-withdtp, text
works-with-formatbib
x11application
Popcon: 48 users (108 upd.)*
Versions and Archs
 License: DFSG free
Git
Other screenshots of package kbibtex
VersionURL
0.9.90-1https://screenshots.debian.net/screenshot/kbibtex/21490
 Screenshots of package kbibtex
r-cran-qqman
??? missing short description for package r-cran-qqman :-(
Versions of package r-cran-qqman
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bullseye0.1.4-7all
bookworm0.1.8+dfsg-1all
trixie0.1.9+dfsg-1all
forky0.1.9+dfsg-2all
sid0.1.9+dfsg-2all
Popcon: 1 users (36 upd.)*
Versions and Archs
 License: DFSG free
Git
Please cite: Stephen D. Turner: qqman: an R package for visualizing GWAS results using Q-Q and manhattan plots. (eprint) bioRxiv (2014)

Packaging has started and developers might try the packaging code in VCS

bibus
bibliographic database
Versions of package bibus
ReleaseVersionArchitectures
VCS1.5.2+dfsg-1all
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 License: GPL-2+
Debian package not available
Git
Version: 1.5.2+dfsg-1

Bibus is a bibliographic database which has been developed with LibreOffice/ OpenOffice.org in mind. It can directly insert citations and format the bibliographic index in an open OpenOffice.org Writer document. The main features are

  • hierarchical organization of the references with user-defined keys
  • designed for multiuser-environments (share databases between users)
  • a search engine supporting live queries
  • on-line PubMed access
  • import of PubMed (Medline), EndNote/Refer, RIS and BibTeX records.

Bibus will use an SQLite-database by default for storage (via the SQLite3 module available in Python >2.5). But it also supports MySQL-databases. If you want to use a MySQL-database, make sure, that you have the python-mysqldb package installed.

Desktop tools that help inserting references in LibreOffice, or help managing PDF collections. This list is probably incomplete.
*Popularitycontest results: number of people who use this package regularly (number of people who upgraded this package recently) out of 284154