The package starts from the basic facilities of the colorcolor package, and provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of color tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors. It allows a user to select a document-wide target color model and offers complete tools for conversion between eight color models. Additionally, there is a command for alternating row colors plus repeated non-aligned material (like horizontal lines) in tables.

The package creates three environments: framed, which puts an ordinary frame box around the region, shaded, which shades the region, and leftbar, which places a line at the left side. The environments allow a break at their start (the \FrameCommand enables creation of a title that is “attached” to the environment); breaks are also allowed in the course of the framed/shaded matter. There is also a command \MakeFramed to make your own framed-style environments.

The package provides an interface to embed interactive Flash (SWF) and 3D objects (Adobe U3D & PRC), as well as video and sound files or streams in the popular MP4, FLV and MP3 formats into PDF documents with Acrobat-9/X compatibility. Playback of multimedia files uses the built-in Flash Player of Adobe Reader and does, therefore, not depend on external plug-ins. Flash Player supports the efficient H.264 codec for video compression.

The package is based on the RichMedia Annotation, an Adobe addition to the PDF specification. It replaces the now obsolete movie15 package.

The beamer LaTeX class can be used for producing slides. The class works in both PostScript and direct PDF output modes, using the pgf graphics system for visual effects. Content is created in the frame environment, and each frame can be made up of a number of slides using a simple notation for specifying material to appear on each slide within a frame. Short versions of title, authors, institute can also be specified as optional parameters. Whole frame graphics are supported by plain frames. The class supports figure and table environments, transparency effects, varying slide transitions and animations.

The PSNFSS collection includes a set of files that provide a complete working setup of the LaTeX font selection scheme (NFSS2) for use with common PostScript fonts. The base set of text fonts covered by PSNFSS includes the AvantGarde, Bookman, Courier, Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, Symbol, Times Roman and Zapf Dingbats fonts. In addition, the fonts Bitstream Charter and Adobe Utopia are covered. Separate packages are provided to load each font for use as the main text font. The package helvet allows Helvetica to be loaded with its size scaled to something more appropriate for use as a Sans-Serif font to match Times, while pifont provides the means to select single glyphs from symbol fonts. The bundle as a whole is part of the LaTeX required set of packages.

This package provides hooks for adding code at the beginning of .aux files.

This package defines a command \captionof for putting a caption to something that's not a float.

The hanging package facilitates the typesetting of hanging paragraphs. The package also enables typesetting with hanging punctuation, by making punctuation characters active.

This package provides a brief set of recommendations for users who need online documentation of LaTeX. The document supports the need for documentation of LaTeX itself, in distributions.

Simply changing \parskip and \parindent leaves a layout that is untidy; this package (though it is no substitute for a properly designed class) helps alleviate this untidiness.

This package provides the code for the color option that is used by packages hyperref and bookmark. It is not intended as a package for the user.

This is a simple package to set up document margins. This package is considered obsolete; alternatives are the typearea package from the koma-script bundle, or the geometry package.

This is a translation to German of Winston Chang's LaTeX cheat sheet (a reference sheet for writing scientific papers). It has been adapted to German standards using the KOMA script document classes.

The sidecap package defines environments called SCfigure and SCtable (analogous to figure and table) to typeset captions sideways. Options include outercaption, innercaption, leftcaption and rightcaption.

The program is run within a Git repository, and outputs the entire version history, as a LaTeX table. That output will typically be redirected to a file; the author recommends typesetting in landscape orientation.

This package allows figures or tables to have text wrapped around them. It does not work in combination with list environments, but can be used in a parbox or minipage, and in two-column format.

The package adds one or more user commands to LaTeX's shipout routine, which may be used to place the output at fixed positions. The grid option may be used to find the correct places.

This package provides control over the typography of the Table of Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables, and the ability to create new List of .... The ToC \parskip may be changed.

This package provides a package to facilitate placement of boxes at absolute positions on the LaTeX page. There are several reasons why this might be useful, an important one being to help the creation of large-format conference posters.

This package provides the \collect@body command (as in amsmath), as well as a \long version \Collect@Body, for collecting the body text of an environment. These commands are used to define a new author interface to creating new environments.

Amsrefs is a LaTeX package for bibliographies that provides an archival data format similar to the format of BibTeX database files, but adapted to make direct processing by LaTeX easier. The package can be used either in conjunction with BibTeX or as a replacement for BibTeX.

The XMP (eXtensible Metadata platform) is a framework to add metadata to digital material to enhance the workflow in publication. The essence is that the metadata is stored in an XML file, and this XML stream is then embedded in the file to which it applies.

The wasy (Waldi Symbol) font by Roland Waldi provides many glyphs like male and female symbols and astronomical symbols, as well as the complete lasy font set and other odds and ends. The wasysym package implements an easy to use interface for these symbols.

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.