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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2011-02-02 01:05:03 +0000
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-This README file is for version 1.0, 2011/01/25
+This README file is for version 1.1, 2011/02/01
of the package `mathastext' for LaTeX2e
Copyright (C) 2011 by Jean-Francois Burnol.
@@ -17,27 +17,107 @@ LaTeX version 2003/12/01 or later.
USAGE
-mathastext.sty will make your document use the main text
-font also in mathematics mode. It also provides a
-mechanism to easily use distinct fonts (for mathematics
-and also for text) in the same document. The goal is to
-make documents exhibit a less polished look than is usual
-with LaTeX, with the (vain?) hope that the reader will
-concentrate more on the (mathematical) content.
+Include in the preamble
-One corollary of the mechanism is that you can now typeset
-documents (containing simple mathematics formulas) with a
-quite arbitrary TeX text font, without worrying too much
-that nobody ever designed accompanying math fonts.
+\usepackage{mathastext}
-A final aspect is that using mathastext usually reduces
-the size of the final PDF file.
+after other font related packages. This will make your
+document use the main text font also in mathematics
+mode. The default is that the letters in text and math mode
+have the same shape but option `italic' will make the
+letters use the italic shape in math mode. Digits and
+log-like operator names will be upright (if the text font is
+upright). So one can now typeset documents (containing
+simple mathematics formulas) with a quite arbitrary TeX text
+font, without worrying too much that nobody ever designed
+accompanying math fonts.
+
+Options are provided to pick up the Greek letters from
+either the Euler or the Symbol font, and they can be scaled
+by an arbitrary factor to let them fit with the document
+text font. It is also possible to have other packages set up
+the fonts for Greek letters, as mathastext by default only
+modify the font for Latin letters and typographical
+characters.
+
+The goal (somewhat altered by the `italic' option) was to
+make documents with the difference between math and text
+blurred out, so that the reader would be forced to
+concentrate more on the contents: text AND math. There is no
+reason to use another font for math: as the text is also an
+equation in its own way, everything should be given equal
+weight. For example, the package gives results corresponding
+to that goal when used with typewriter fonts (possibly of
+variable width like Latin Modern Typewriter
+Proportional). It also gives interesting results for
+calligraphical fonts.
+
+Another feature is that mathastext provides a simple
+interface to use many different fonts in the same document,
+be it for math or text (not that we recommend abusing it!).
+
+Using mathastext without the `italic' option usually reduces
+the size of the final PDF file. The option `symbolmax' will
+get quite a few mathematicals glyph from the postscript
+Symbol font included in all LaTeX distributions, so that for
+documents with simple mathematics, the default math fonts
+might be completely avoided. This sometimes leads to smaller
+PDF files.
INSTALLATION
Run latex on mathastext.ins to create mathastext.sty from
mathastext.dtx and put it where LaTeX can find it.
-To generate documentation run latex on mathastext.dtx
-Further documentation is available at
+To generate documentation, including the commented source
+code, run latex on mathastext.dtx
+
+Illustrative examples are available at
http://jf.burnol.free.fr/mathsastext.html
+
+
+VERSION HISTORY
+
+ {1.0}{2011/01/25}{Initial version.}
+
+ {1.1}{2011/02/01}{
+ * option |italic|: this is the main change for the user. Internally we now
+ have two distinct fonts, however they differ only in shape.
+ * the mechanism of math versions is extended to accomodate this: the
+ macros \cs{MathastextWillUse} and \cs{MathastextDeclareVersion} now
+ accept an optional argument for specifying the letters' shape
+ * |frenchmath| sets the uppercase Latin letters nevertheless in the
+ digits font
+ * \cs{mathnormal}, \cs{mathrm}, \cs{mathbf} work in the same way as in
+ standard \LaTeX{}, but with the |mathastext| font. But I do nothing
+ with the other default alphabet changing commands.
+ * the minus sign can be represented as an en-dash. This seems to be clever
+ enough to accomodate all 8bit encodings, not limited to OT1 or T1.
+ * the |noplusnominus| option is split into two
+ * I change the way the encoding is chosen for the math accents: I use the
+ default encoding at the time of loading. So there is nothing more in the
+ code at AtBeginDocument for this. I do not know an automatic way to go
+ from the encoding to the accent slots, and I did not want to manually
+ incorporate here all possible or at least many encodings, so basically
+ only OT1 and T1 are ok. Default to OT1. Of course in case on more than one
+ math versions, they should have the same encoding for everything to work
+ everywhere.
+ * same change for \cs{imath}: but defaults to T1.
+ * some attention devoted to |hbar|. Works ok, or at least reasonably with
+ the fonts I tested. Adjusts to whether or not the |italic| option was used.
+ * |defaultvec| deprecated, rather we now have \cs{fouriervec} command to
+ access the vec accent from the Fourier font.
+ * new alphabet commands \cs{mathnormalbold}, \cs{MathEulerBold}, and
+ \cs{MathEuler} and \cs{MathPSymbol} have new names.
+ * names for the capital Greek letters which look like their Latin versions.
+ * bug fixed: the character slot for \cs{Xi} in the Symbol font was wrong.
+ **** limitations:
+ * the \cs{pmvec} accent will not change its size when
+ used in subscripts or exponents
+ * now that internally we have two fonts for letters and
+ digits they could be entirely unrelated, it is just a
+ question of providing the user macros to pass the info to
+ the package, and to duplicate some variables. As this
+ goes really against the initial design goals, and adds
+ complications, I did not do it.}
+
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