nc­c­tools – A col­lec­tion of gen­eral pack­ages for LaTeX

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.