ncctools

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.