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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2008-10-02 00:05:56 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2008-10-02 00:05:56 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/isomath/README.txt b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/isomath/README.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0c83147af4f --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/isomath/README.txt @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +isomath: Math for scientists +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:Date: 2008-09-26 +:Copyright: © 2008 Günter Milde <milde@users.berlios.de> +:Licence: Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License + (v. 2 or later) +:Abstract: The isomath package enables formatting Greek and Latin + letters as symbols for vectors, matrices, and tensors + in the typefaces recommended for scientific papers + by the International Standard ISO 31. + For this, a *bold italic* and a *sans-serif bold italic* + math alphabet are defined. + +Files +===== + +:README.txt: Requirements, Installation, Usage +:README.html: browser friendly README + +:isomath.sty: isomath LaTeX package +:isomath.sty.txt: Documentation (source) +:isomath.sty.html: Documentation (HTML) +:isomath.sty.pdf: Documentation (PDF) + +:isomath-test.tex: Test example (source) +:isomath-test.pdf: Test example (PDF output) + +The bidirectional text <-> code converter PyLit_ can convert between +``isomath.sty`` and ``isomath.sty.txt``. + +The Python docutils_ and pdflatex were used to generate the HTML and PDF +documentation. + + +Requirements +============ + +This package builds on and extends fixmath_ by Walter Schmidt. +It also requires kvoptions_. + +The cmbright_ package is recommended for *sans-serif italic* and *sans-serif +bold italic* fonts matching with Computer Modern and derivatives. + +All required packages are part of TeXLive and MikTeX. + +Installation +============ + +* Unpack isomath.zip (preferabely in a TDS documentation folder). + +* Make sure LaTeX can find isomath.sty: + + + Copy/Move it to a suitable place in the TDS and run texhash, + + or place it in the current working directory (e.g. for testing). + + +Usage Example +============= + +Use cmbright for the sans-serif math alphabets and redefine the +``\vec`` macro to typeset its argument in *bold italic*:: + + \usepackage[sfdefault=cmbr]{isomath} + \renewcommand{\vec}{\vectorsym} + +More examples and usage hints are in the literate source and documentation +files. + + +.. References + ========== + +.. [typefaces] `Typefaces for Symbols in Scientific Manuscripts`: + http://physics.nist.gov/Document/typefaces.pdf + +.. _pylit: http://pylit.berlios.de +.. _reStructured Text: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html +.. _docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html + +.. _cmbright: http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/cmbright.html +.. _fixmath: http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/fixmath.html +.. _kvoptions: http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/kvoptions.html |