This package provides a class that produces overhead slides (transparencies), with many facilities. Seminar is not nowadays reckoned a good basis for a presentation — users are advised to use more recent classes such as powerdot or beamer, both of which are tuned to 21st-century presentation styles.

The overpic environment is a cross between the LaTeX picture environment and the \includegraphics command of graphicx. The resulting picture environment has the same dimensions as the included graphic. LaTeX commands can be placed on the graphic at defined positions; a grid for orientation is available.

This package provides commands to typeset proof trees in the style of sequent calculus and related systems. The commands allow for writing inferences with any number of premises and alignment of successive formulas on an arbitrary point. Various options allow complete control over spacing, styles of inference rules, placement of labels, etc.

This package ensures that all acronyms used in the text are spelled out in full at least once. It also provides an environment to build a list of acronyms used. The package is compatible with PDF bookmarks. The package requires the suffix package, which in turn requires that it runs under e-TeX.

The package is used to change the format of \today’s date, including the weekday, e.g., Saturday, 26 June 2008, the UK format, which is preferred in many parts of the world, as distinct from that which is used in \maketitle of the article class, June 26, 2008, the US format.

This package is an extension of the keyval package and offers additional macros for setting keys and declaring and setting class or package options. The package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to the name of the macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key definitions; these all help use in documents where several packages define their own sets of keys.

The main purpose of the preview package is the extraction of selected elements from a LaTeX source, like formulas or graphics, into separate pages of a DVI file. A flexible and convenient interface allows it to specify what commands and constructs should be extracted. This works with DVI files postprocessed by either Dvips and Ghostscript or dvipng, but it also works when you are using PDFTeX for generating PDF files.

The package aims to provide a one-stop solution to requirements for footnotes. It offers multiple footnote apparatus superior to that of manyfoot. Footnotes can be formatted in separate paragraphs, or be run into a single paragraph. Note that the majority of the bigfoot package's interface is identical to that of manyfoot; users should seek information from that package's documentation.

The bigfoot bundle also provides the perpage and suffix packages.

This package provides macros to read and compare the modification dates of files. The files may be .tex files, images or other files (as long as they can be found by LaTeX). It uses the \pdffilemoddate primitive of pdfLaTeX to find the file modification date as PDF date string, parses the string and returns the value to the user. The package will also work for DVI output with recent versions of the LaTeX compiler which uses pdfLaTeX in DVI mode. The functionality is provided by purely expandable macros or by faster but non-expandable ones.

LaTeX, by default, restricts the sizes at which you can use its default computer modern fonts, to a fixed set of discrete sizes (effectively, a set specified by Knuth). The type1cm package removes this restriction; this is particularly useful when using scalable versions of the cm fonts (Bakoma, or the versions from BSR/Y&Y, or True Type versions from Kinch, PCTeX, etc.). Note that the LaTeX distribution now contains a package fix-cm, which performs the task of type1cm, as well as doing the same job for T1- and TS1-encoded ec fonts.

This is the principal package in the AMS-LaTeX distribution. It adapts for use in LaTeX most of the mathematical features found in AMS-TeX; it is highly recommended as an adjunct to serious mathematical typesetting in LaTeX. When amsmath is loaded, AMS-LaTeX packages amsbsy (for bold symbols), amsopn (for operator names) and amstext (for text embedded in mathematics) are also loaded. This package is part of the LaTeX required distribution; however, several contributed packages add still further to its appeal; examples are empheq, which provides functions for decorating and highlighting mathematics, and ntheorem, for specifying theorem (and similar) definitions.

Typewriter-style fonts are best for program listings, but Computer Modern Typewriter prints ` and ' as bent opening and closing single quotes. Other fonts, and most programming languages, print ` as a grave accent and ' upright; ' is used both to open and to close quoted strings. The package switches the typewriter font to Computer Modern Typewriter in OT1 encoding, and modifies the behaviour of verbatim, verbatim*, \verb, and \verb* to print in the expected way. It does this regardless of other fonts or encodings in use, so long as the package is loaded after the other fonts were. The package does not affect \tt, \texttt, etc.

The package allows rows and columns to be coloured, and even individual cells.

The varwidth environment is superficially similar to minipage, but the specified width is just a maximum value -- the box may get a narrower natural width.

This package implements a new bookmark (outline) organization for the hyperref package. Bookmark properties such as style and color. Other action types are available (URI, GoToR, Named).

The bundle comprises various LaTeX packages, providing among others: better accessibility support for PDF files; extensible chemists reaction arrows; record information about document class(es) used; and many more.

The package provides extensive facilities, both for constructing headers and footers, and for controlling their use (for example, at times when LaTeX would automatically change the heading style in use).

This package offers the command \DeclareFloatingEnvironment, which the user may use to define new floating environments which behave like the LaTeX standard foating environments figure and table.

This LaTeX reference sheet is for writing a thesis using the KOMA-Script document classes (scrartcl, scrreprt, scrbook) and all the packages needed for a thesis in natural sciences.

Fontspec is a package for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. It provides an automatic and unified interface to feature-rich AAT and OpenType fonts through the NFSS in LaTeX running on XeTeX or LuaTeX engines.

This package provides seven predefined chapter heading styles. Each style can be modified using a set of simple commands. Optionally one can modify the formatting routines in order to create additional chapter headings.

This package records the value that was last set, for any counter of interest. Since most such counters are simply incremented when they are changed, the recorded value will usually be the maximum value.

This package provides variants of \fbox: \shadowbox, \doublebox, \ovalbox, \Ovalbox, with helpful tools for using box macros and flexible verbatim macros. You can box mathematics, floats, center, flushleft, and flushright, lists, and pages.

The document is designed as a publicity flyer for LaTeX, but also serves as an interesting showcase of what LaTeX can do. The flyer is designed for printing, double-sided, on A3 paper, which would then be folded once.