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.

Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (2.7M).