texlive-ncctools Subpackage of texlive

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.

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