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.
The author is Alexander I. Rozhenko.
License: lppl Version: 3.5 Catalogued: 2008-02-08