The NCCtools bundle contains many packages for general use
under LaTeX; many are also used by NCC LaTeX. The bundle
includes tools for: - executing commands after a package is
loaded; - watermarks; - counter manipulation (dynamic counters,
changing counter numbering with another counter); -
improvements to the description environment; - hyphenation of
compound words; - new levels of footnotes; - space-filling
patterns; - "poor man's" Black Board Bold symbols; - alignment
of the content of a box; - use comma as decimal separator; -
boxes with their own crop marks; - page cropmarks; -
improvements to fancy headers; - float "styles", mini floats,
side floats; - manually marked footnotes; - extension of
amsmath; - control of paragraph skip; - an envelope to the
graphicx package; - dashed and multiple rules; - alternative
techniques for declarations of sections, captions, and toc-
entries; - generalised text-stretching; - generation of new
theorem-like environments; - control of the text area; -
centred page layouts; and - an un-numbered top-level section.
date: 2008-02-08 09:08:04 +0100
