The bundle comprises packages to provide:
– : better accessibility support for PDF files;
– : ‘alias counters’;
– : multiple-alphabetic counting (a…z,aa…zz,… — up to the full extent of a TeX counter);
– : replaces \includeonly by an interactive user interface;
– : a modern reimplementation of package ;
– : provides \AtEndDvi command;
– : attach files to PDF files;
– : hooks the very end of a document;
– : stick stuff at the start of the .aux file;
– : expandable arithmetic operations with big integers that can exceed TeX's number limits;
– : defines and implements the data type bit set, a vector of bits;
– : get bitmap size and resolution data;
– : alternative bookmark (outline) organization for package hyperref;
– : collects the contents of a file and puts it in a macro;
– : a horizontally-centred \not symbol;
– : extensible chemists’ reaction arrows;
– : record information about document class(es) used;
– : poor man’s mathematical relation symbols;
– : dvips colour stack management;
– : embed files in PDF documents;
– : define counter-printing operations producing English ordinals;
– : collect arguments delimited by end of line;
– : conversion with epstopdf on the fly;
– : adds a prefix to eTeX’s commands, to avoid conflicts with existing macros;
– : setting and clearing flags in bit fields and converting the bit field into a decimal number;
– : clean up the string containing the title of a section, etc.;
– : macros for adding and reordering the list of graphics file extensions recognised by the package;
– : extend file name processing in the bundle;
– : build collections of packages;
– : extra documentation macros;
– : bookmark-enabled logos;
– : safely apply package patches;
– : implements the color option stuff that is used by packages and ;
– : bookmarks in sectioning commands;
– : anjusting anchors of captions;
– : optimising ’s pdftex driver destinations;
– : hyper-references in the LaTeX standard package;
– : experimental package for links to embedded files;
– : substitute hyphenation patterns;
– : switch for option draft;
– : provides expandable checks for the current language;
– : looks for LuaTeX regardless of its mode and provides the switch \ifluatex;
– : provides the ifpdf switch;
– : provides the \ifvtex switch;
– : provides a complete set of macros for informations, warnings and error messages with support for plain TeX;
– : enhanced handling of input encoding;
– : provides expandable arithmetic operations with integers;
– : define key-value keys in the same manner as ;
– : use package options in key value format ;
– : a variant of the \setkeys command;
– : Let assignment for LaTeX macros;
– : (partially) extends the package to UTF-8 encoding;
– : exports some utility macros from the LaTeX kernel into a separate namespace and also provides them for other formats such as plain-TeX; – : implements colour support based on LuaTeX’s node attributes;
– : utilises new and extended features and resources that LuaTeX provides;
– : allows to access magic numbers by a hierarchical name system;
– : make a command robust;
– : prints a page grid in the background;
– : select pages of a document for output;
– : using ’s color stack for footnotes;
– : macros for setting and maintaining new color stacks;
– : PDFTeX COLour MarK — fake a colour stack using marks (not needed for PDFTeX 1.40.0 and later);
– : fixes colour problems in package ;
– : fixes colour problems in package ;
– : setting PDF encryption;
– : pdfTeX’s escape features using TeX or e-TeX;
– : landscape pages in PDF;
– : control PDF rendering modes;
– : provide PDFTeX primitives missing in LuaTeX;
– : dimens for picture macros;
– : poor man’s box drawing characters;
– : define a command that protected against expansion;
– : using the numeric values of references;
– : checksum based rerun checks on auxiliary files;
– : automatically resize overly large equations;
– : performs simple rotation cyphers;

– : redefines environment ‘theindex’ of package ‘index’, if a class from KOMA-Script is loaded;
– : select the input encoding by specifying pairs of input characters and their glyph names;
– : set \hbox in outer horizontal mode;
– : getting box sizes;
– : extends package and adds some support for UTF-8;
– : extensions of the \stackrel command;
– : selects the files for \include by inspecting the timestamp of the .aux file(s);
– : provides \StringEncodingConvert for converting a string between different encodings;
– : tabulars with height specification;
– : key value interface for tabular parameters;
– : print German telephone numbers;
– : using a color stack for transparency with ;
– : commands with two optional arguments;
– : provides unlimited unique counter;
– : a proposed new reference system.

Each of the packages is represented by two files, a .dtx (documented source) and a PDF file; the .ins file necessary for installation is extracted by running the .dtx file with Plain TeX.

The author is Heiko Oberdiek.