The Complementary Package Number 2 of AsTeX contains in particular:

• TeXBook and Metafont Book de D.Knuth, in tex form.
• The package ArabTeX by K.Lagally, to use Arabic with a transliteration system using Latin characters.
• The package FarsiTeX by M.Ghodsi and R.Pournader to write Arabic text directly on screen.
• The interfaces Burgundy Editor by J.Simon, and MéTeX, by G.Frugier, which make it possible very conveniently to create documents in TeX, and to launch additional tasks. Burgundy Editor can display the TeX (and also the key words of C) with other colors as the text. MéTeX is endowed with integrated buttons, which make it possible to enter TeX commands with a click of mouse.
• The WinEdt interface for TeX, by A.Simonic (shareware).
• Dview, the previewer of dvi files by B.Malyshev, which displays TeX documents containing bitmap or PostScript color images, and using special effects produced by the packages graphics, color and PSTricks.
• Amharic fonts by A.Alamnehe to write in Amharic (Ethiopian).
• MetaPost by J.Hobby, to create graphs in PostScript using an extension of the Metafont language.
• LaTeXCad by J.Leis, which makes it possible to create drawings in LaTeX with the mouse, under Windows.
• Image Magick by J.Cristy, a set of utilities to handle images and to convert their formats. TeX4ht by E.Gurari, to convert to HTML format, documents written in Plain TeX or LaTeX, and which contain mathematical formulas.