CTAN package update: NCCTOOLS
Date: January 19, 2006 2:08:31 PM CET
The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should
soon be at your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hef{}feron
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: NCCTOOLS bundle
Author's name: Alexander I Rozhenko
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ncctools
Summary description: Release 3.5
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
This is the significant release of the bundle. The bug in the nccthm package that occasionally appears in the previous release was fixed. The addtopackage package introduced in the previous release and its \AddToPackage command are renamed to afterpackage and \AfterPackage respectively. New names more exactly reflect the meaning of the package. I did it because the package is a new enough and I think it is used rarely yet. In nccfloats package, the syntax of \FloatStyle is expanded with optional float-type parameter. Float styles are applied now to the base floating environment also. The generic \newminifloat command is introduced. In nccsect package, \SetTOCStyle and \ChapterPrefixStyle commands are introduced. They are moved from ncclatex bundle. Section style creation commands \newhangsectionstyle and \newplainsectionstyle are introduced. They essentially improve the possibility of making new section styles such as sections with marginal section numbers, flushed right section headers and many others. The 'centerlast' section style is introduced. The customization of section and caption tag suffices is now allowed with \sectiontagsuffix and \captiontagsuffix commands. Margins of display sections can be adjusted using the \adjustsectionmargins command. Compatibility with xtab package is added. Caption width can now exceed a line width.
See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ncctools . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This is the significant release of the bundle. The bug in the nccthm package that occasionally appears in the previous release was fixed. The addtopackage package introduced in the previous release and its \AddToPackage command are renamed to afterpackage and \AfterPackage respectively. New names more exactly reflect the meaning of the package. I did it because the package is a new enough and I think it is used rarely yet. In nccfloats package, the syntax of \FloatStyle is expanded with optional float-type parameter. Float styles are applied now to the base floating environment also. The generic \newminifloat command is introduced. In nccsect package, \SetTOCStyle and \ChapterPrefixStyle commands are introduced. They are moved from ncclatex bundle. Section style creation commands \newhangsectionstyle and \newplainsectionstyle are introduced. They essentially improve the possibility of making new section styles such as sections with marginal section numbers, flushed right section headers and many others. The 'centerlast' section style is introduced. The customization of section and caption tag suffices is now allowed with \sectiontagsuffix and \captiontagsuffix commands. Margins of display sections can be adjusted using the \adjustsectionmargins command. Compatibility with xtab package is added. Caption width can now exceed a line width.
See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ncctools . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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 |