CTAN package update: NCCTOOLS
Date: December 20, 2004 3:59:01 PM CET
A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.
Thanks for the update,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: NCCTOOLS
Author's name: Alexander I Rozhenko
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ncctools
Summary description: All packages are documented and revised
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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In release 3.0, all packages are documented in .dtx files and revised. The
new package, nccstretch, is introduced. The short guide ncctools.tex is
prepared
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You can have a look at the package at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ncctools
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror
of CTAN that is near to you; see
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
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
- un-numbered top-level section.
| Package | ncctools |
| Version | 3.5.3 2019-08-03 |
| Maintainer | Alexander I. Rozhenko |