# Readme for the package nicematrix Author: F. Pantigny (`fpantigny@wanadoo.fr`). CTAN page: `https://ctan.org/pkg/nicematrix` ## License The LaTeX extension `nicematrix` is distributed under the LPPL 1.3 license. ## Presentation The LaTeX package `nicematrix` provides new environments similar to the classical environments `{tabular}`, `{array}` and `{matrix}` but with some additional features. The extension `nicematrix` creates PGF/Tikz nodes corresponding to the cells of the array and uses them to provide new functionalities. ## Installation The package `nicematrix` is present in the distributions MiKTeX, TeXLive and MacTeX. For a manual installation: * put the files `nicematrix.ins` and `nicematrix.dtx` in the same directory; * run `latex nicematrix.ins`. The file `nicematrix.sty` will be generated. The file `nicematrix.sty` is the only file necessary to use the extension `nicematrix`. You have to put it in the same directory as your document or (best) in a `texmf` tree.