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1 \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
2 \ProvidesFile{tools-overview.tex}[2015/03/31 v1.0 Tools overview]
4 % Copyright (c) 2006-2014 Heiko Oberdiek
5 % (c) 2015-2016 The LaTeX3 Project
7 % This file is part of the Standard LaTeX `Tools Bundle'.
8 % -------------------------------------------------------
10 % It may be distributed and/or modified under the
11 % conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
12 % of this license or (at your option) any later version.
13 % The latest version of this license is in
14 % http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
15 % and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
16 % version 2005/12/01 or later.
18 % The list of all files belonging to the LaTeX `Tools Bundle' is
19 % given in the file `manifest.txt'.
21 % This file is derived from `tools.tex' and `tools-overview.cls'
22 % from the `latex-tds' bundle maintained by Heiko Oberdiek.
24 \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
26 % page layout
27 \usepackage[
28 ignoreall,
29 hmargin=1in,
30 vmargin={.75in,1in},
31 ]{geometry}
33 \pagestyle{empty}
35 \usepackage{calc}[2005/08/06]
37 \usepackage{hyperref}
38 \hypersetup{
39 colorlinks,
40 filecolor=blue,
41 pdftitle={LaTeX's Tools Bundle},
42 pdfsubject={Overview},
43 pdfauthor={Heiko Oberdiek},
44 pdfcreator={Project `latex-tds'},
46 \title{Contents of \LaTeX's Tools Bundle}
48 \makeatletter
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121 Place text after the current page.
123 \entry{array}{%
124 Extended versions of the environments array, tabular and tabular*.
126 \entry{bm}{%
127 Access bold math symbols.
129 \entry{calc}{%
130 Infix arithmetic expresions. Contributed to the distribution by
131 Kresten Krab Thorup and Frank Jensen.
133 \entry{dcolumn}{%
134 Alignment on \emph{decimal points} in tabular entries. Requires array.
136 \entry{delarray}{%
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140 Extended version of the enumerate environment.
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143 Suite of small files which may be used to control \TeX{}'s
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147 Package and test file for producing \emph{font samples}
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150 Place footnotes in the right hand column in two-column mode.
152 \entry{hhline}{%
153 Finer control over horizontal rules in tables. Requires array.
155 \entry{indentfirst}{%
156 Indent the first paragraph of sections etc.
158 \entry{layout}{%
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163 features if both are loaded.)
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171 Not recomended for new packages, but may help when updating old
172 files.
174 \entry{shellesc}{%
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176 based on \texttt{\string\write18} or \texttt{os.execute} depending
177 on the system in use.
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193 \entry{trace}{%
194 The package helps to suppress and to control the amount of tracing
195 output (\cs{tracingall}) by taming calc and making NFSS less noisy.
197 \entry{varioref}{%
198 \emph{Smart} handling of page references.
200 \entry{verbatim}{%
201 Flexible version of verbatim environment.
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204 eXternall References. Extend \cs{ref} to access \cs{label} commands in
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208 Smart space command that avoids the common mistake of missing
209 spaces after command names.
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