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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/minifp/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/minifp/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f6b413bf9ee --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/minifp/README @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +The MiniFP package + +Purpose: + + minifp.sty defines macros for calculating with decimal real numbers. + It provides 8 decimal digits before and after the decimal point. + Minifp also provides a stack-based "assembly" language for writing + "programs". + + In its basic form, minifp makes only simple operations available. To + get additional operations (sine, cosine, angle, square root, log and + exp), the file mfpextra.tex is provided. + + Minifp should work in both latex and plaintex. + + This is version 0.9. It should work reasonably well, barring any bugs, + but I expect to spend some time fine-tuning it for version 1.0. + +License: + + All files of the minifp distribution (listed below) may be distributed + and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public + License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any + later version. The latest version of this license is in + http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt + and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX + version 2008/12/01 or later. + + While every effort has been made to make minifp useful, it comes with + no warranty, expressed or implied. + +Usage: + + You can use minifp as a LaTeX package with + \usepackage{minifp} + or use it in plain TeX with + \input minifp.sty + + You can access the extra commands from mfpextra.tex by issuing the + command + \MFPloadextra + after minifp.sty has been loaded. + +Installation: + + To install minifp, obtain minifp.tds.zip from CTAN and unzip it in any + TDS-compliant texmf tree. + + Or, in the presence of minifp.dtx, run tex or latex on minifp.ins to + unpack the files minifp.sty and mfpextra.tex. Copy those files to some + place where both tex and latex can find them. For example, in a TDS + compliant system, the directory /tex/generic/minifp/ under one of your + TEXMF root directories. + + The documentation is provided in minifp.pdf. Put minifp.pdf (and this + README and the files test*.tex, if you wish) wherever documentation of + packages is kept. For example, in the directory /doc/generic/minifp/ + under one of your TEXMF root directories. + + If you wish to regenerate the documentation, run latex (or pdflatex) + on minifp.dtx three times and then + makeindex -s gind.ist -o minifp.ind minifp.idx + and then (pdf)latex again on minifp.dtx. + +Manifest: + + These, together with the files minifp.sty and mfpextra.tex (generated + by tex-ing minifp.ins), constitute the minifp distribution to which the + license applies: + + minifp.dtx Contains minifp.sty and mfpextra.tex + minifp.ins The unpacking script: run tex or latex on it. + It reads in minifp.dtx and produces the files + minifp.sty and mfpextra.tex + minifp.pdf Documentation + test1.tex A suite of tests, including error messages (plain TeX) + test2.tex More tests, including long tests of speed (plain TeX) + README This file. + + This distribution, the latest updates, and possibly some past + versions, should also be available at my web site: + <http://comp.uark.edu/~luecking/tex/>. + +History: + + Version 0.9 : maximum possible accuracy achieved for angle, at some + cost to speed. + Version 0.8 : exp: now more accurate for many cases. + Version 0.7 : sqrt: now exact when possible and much more accurate. + Version 0.6 : Added angle to mfpextra. Changed package name to minifp. + Version 0.5 : Added sqrt, deg, rad to mfpextra. + Version 0.4 : Added log, exp, pow to mfpextra. + Version 0.3 : Added mfpextra.tex, defines sin and cos. + Version 0.2 : Added macros for printing, formatting the results. + Version 0.1 : First working set of macros. Package named mfp.sty. + +-- +Dan Luecking <luecking (at) uark (dot) edu> +Department of Mathematical Sciences +1 University of Arkansas +Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701-1201 +U.S.A. |