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;

• 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;

• centered page layouts;

• un-numbered top-level section.

This package extends and modifies the BaskervaldADF font (a Baskerville substitute) with more accented glyphs, with small caps and oldstyle figures in all shapes. It includes OpenType and PostScript fonts, as well as LaTeX support files.

The package provides means to draw linguistic syntactic trees with ease and to support hopefully sufficient functionalities, that the linguist may need.

This LaTeX package provides a command to convert dates to names of Japanese holidays. Another command, converting dates to the day of the week in Japanese, is available as a free gift.

This package provides a number of macros for rendering flags of countries and their associated artefacts using PSTricks. Formatting of the resulting drawings is entirely controlled by TeX macros. A good working knowledge of LaTeX should be sufficient to design flags of sovereign countries and adapt them to create new designs. Features such as color or shape customisation and dynamic modifications are possible by cleverly adjusting the options supplied to the TeX macros.

This bundle allows marking-up of CWEB code in LaTeX. The distribution includes the ``Counting Words'' program distributed with CWEB, edited to run with LaTeX.

This package attempts to make it easy for even a LaTeX novice to prepare proficiency tests, especially in combination with the exam document class. Thus, almost all command names are very similar. After defining skills in the preamble or in an external file, they are declared using labels, and can optionally be set as global skills. A skills table is generated to summarize the evaluated competencies and to allow for writing down the resulting proficiency level.

Endheads provides running headers of the form Notes to pp. xx-yy for endnotes sections. It also enables one to reset the endnotes counter, and put a line marking the chapter change in the endnotes, at the beginning of every chapter.

The package adds to PSTricks the ability to draw 3-dimensional views of the five Platonic solids.

The package supports typesetting documents whose counters are represented in base twelve, also called dozenal. It includes a macro for converting positive whole numbers to dozenal from decimal (base ten) representation. The package also includes a few other macros and redefines all the standard counters to produce dozenal output. Fonts, in Roman, italic, slanted, and boldface versions, provide ten and eleven. The fonts were designed to blend well with the Computer Modern fonts, and are available both as Metafont source and in Adobe Type 1 format.

The package deals with EAN barcodes; Metafont sources for fonts are provided, and a set of examples; for some codes, a small Perl script is needed.

Tango is a LaTeX document class for use by mathematics teachers.

The Obyknovennaya Novaya (Ordinary New Face) typeface was widely used in the USSR for scientific and technical publications, as well as textbooks. The fonts are encoded to KOI8-R (which is a long-established Russian font encoding, rather than a TeX/LaTeX encoding). To use the fonts, the user needs Cyrillic font support.

This package provides a LaTeX thesis template for Ningxia University in order to make it easy to write theses for graduate students.

The mahjong package provides a LaTeX interface for typesetting mahjong tiles using an extended version of MPSZ algebraic notation. Its features include spaces, rotated, blank, and concealed tiles, as well as red fives. The size of the mahjong tiles can be controlled using a package option and an optional argument of \mahjong. It is primarily aimed at Riichi (aka Japanese) Mahjong but can be used to typeset any style of mahjong.

The Orkhun font covers an old Turkic script. It is provided as Metafont source.

The environment will center text, if immediately preceded and followed by \clearpage.

This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX support for the Caladea family of fonts.

The decision-table package allows for an easy way to generate decision tables in the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) format. This package ensures consistency in the tables (i.e., fontsize), and is thus a better alternative to inserting tables via images.

The decision-table package adds the \dmntable command, with which tables can be created. This command expands into a tabular, so it can be used within a table or figure environment. Furthermore, this allows labels and captions to be added seamlessly. It is also possible to place multiple DMN tables in one table/figure environment.

The aim of this LaTeX package is to help debug complicated macros. This is done by letting the user step through the execution of some TeX code, going through the details of nested expansions, performing assignments, as well as some simple typesetting commands. To use this package, one should normally run TeX in a terminal.

The script extracts the preamble of the document and runs all \begin{postscript}...\end{postscript}, \begin{pspicture}...\end{pspicture} and \pspicture...\endpspicture separately through LaTeX with the same preamble as the original document; thus it creates EPS, PNG and PDF files of these snippets. In a final pdfLaTeX run the script replaces the environments with \includegraphics to include the processed snippets.

The basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, power to an integer) are implemented by TeX macros in this package. Operands may be numbers with arbitrary numbers of digits; scientific notation is allowed. The expression scanner is also provided.

The built-in determination of the bounding box in TikZ is not entirely accurate. This is because, for Bezier curves, it is the smallest box that contains all control points, which is in general larger than the box that just contains the curve. This library determines the exact bounding box of the curve.

Pkfix is a useful utility for replacing resolution-dependent bitmapped fonts in a dvips-produced PostScript file with the corresponding resolution-independent vector fonts. Unfortunately, pkfix needs to parse certain PostScript comments that appear only in files produced by dvips versions later than 5.58 (circa 1996); it fails to work on PostScript files produced by older versions of dvips. Pkfix-helper is a program that attempts to insert newer-dvips comments into an older-dvips PostScript file, thereby making the file suitable for processing by pkfix. pkfix-helper can sometimes process documents fully autonomously but does require the user to verify and, if needed, correct its decisions.