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
- un-numbered top-level section.
The author is Alexander I. Rozhenko.
License: lppl Version: 3.5 Catalogued: 2013-12-16