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\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesFile{tools-overview.tex}[2015/03/31 v1.0 Tools overview]

% Copyright (c) 2006-2014 Heiko Oberdiek
%           (c) 2015-2016 The LaTeX3 Project
%
% This file is part of the Standard LaTeX `Tools Bundle'.
% -------------------------------------------------------
%
% It may be distributed and/or modified under the
% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
% The latest version of this license is in
%    http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
% and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
% version 2005/12/01 or later.
%
% The list of all files belonging to the LaTeX `Tools Bundle' is
% given in the file `manifest.txt'.
%
% This file is derived from `tools.tex' and `tools-overview.cls'
% from the `latex-tds' bundle maintained by Heiko Oberdiek.
%
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}

% page layout
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  hmargin=1in,
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]{geometry}

\pagestyle{empty}

\usepackage{calc}[2005/08/06]

\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
  colorlinks,
  filecolor=blue,
  pdftitle={LaTeX's Tools Bundle},
  pdfsubject={Overview},
  pdfauthor={Heiko Oberdiek},
  pdfcreator={Project `latex-tds'},
}
\title{Contents of \LaTeX's Tools Bundle}

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  Place text after the current page.
}%
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  Extended versions of the environments array, tabular and tabular*.
}%
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  Access bold math symbols.
}%
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  Infix arithmetic expresions. Contributed to the distribution by
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  Alignment on \emph{decimal points} in tabular entries. Requires array.
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