CTAN package update: NCCTOOLS
Date: June 9, 2005 6:45:05 PM CEST
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 bundle
Author's name: Alexander I Rozhenko
Author's email: roj at front.ru
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ncctools
Summary description: Release 3.1
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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This release of the bundle contains many significant improvements listed
below.
Three new packages are introduced: the `ncccomma' package provides a
smart comma that can work in math as an ordinary symbol or as a punctuation
mark (this comma is a bit smarter than in the `icomma' package); the
`mboxfill' package wraps TeX's hfill with leaders (all leader types are
supported and one more case is provided --- stretched leaders); the
`nccrules' package implements multiline dash rule command, dash rule
fill command, and provides two commands generating new footnote rules
(these rules are useful in the `manyfoot' package).
In the `nccmath' package, new medium-size commands are introduced:
\mfrac is an intermediate fraction between \dfrac and \tfrac; \mbinom
is the medium-size binom; the \medint and \medop produce medium-size
integrals and sum-like operators; mmatrix and medsize environments allow
smaller matrices and formulas.
In the `nccsect' package, the compatibility with the `supertabular' and
`longtable' packages is provided; captions control is improved; \epigraph
and \beforechapter hooks are introduced; \StartFromTextArea and
\StartFromHeaderArea commands are introduced.
In the `manyfoot' package, the \SetFootnoteHook command is introduced.
In the `dcounter' package, an existing counter can work now as a dynamic
counter.
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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 |