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+============================================================
+
+ The contents of the CTAN directory "was"
+
+============================================================
+ Walter Schmidt
+ w.a.schmidt@gmx.net
+
+
+fixmath: A LaTeX package to provide italic uppercase Greek
+ letters in math and an additional bold italic math
+ alphabet \mathbold; to be used with the default CM math
+ fonts.
+
+icomma: With ordinary LaTeX, the comma cannot be used as a
+ decimal separator in math mode, because it is treated as a
+ punctuation character and LaTeX adds some extra space
+ after it. This can be overcome by defining an
+ `intelligent' comma, which adds the space only, if the
+ next input character is actually a blank. In contrast to
+ other known solutions, the LaTeX package icomma.sty does
+ not rely on the particular encoding of the CM math fonts,
+ and it works with decimal numbers of arbitrary length.
+
+upgreek: A LaTeX macro package to provide the upright Greek
+ letters from the Euler or Adobe Symbol fonts as additional
+ math symbols, with proper scaling in super- and
+ subscripts.
+
+gensymb: This LaTeX package provides generic commands
+ \degree, \celsius, \perthousand, \micro and \ohm, which
+ work both in text and math mode. The package should
+ co-operate flawlessly with the well-known units.sty.
+ Various means are provided to fake the symbols or take
+ them from external symbol fonts, if they are not available
+ in the default fonts used in the document. The package
+ makes optionally use of upgreek.sty.
+
+The style files can be unpacked by running the particular
+installation script (.ins) through LaTeX. The files will
+be created immediately in the appropriate TDS directory
+tex/latex/was, if this directory exists and the DOCSTRIP
+tool is properly configured -- otherwise they are written
+into the current directory.
+
+The documentation of a package can be generated by running
+the particular .dtx file through LaTeX.
+
+==finis