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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bnumexpr/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bnumexpr/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6579fbceaf6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bnumexpr/README @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +The bnumexpr package +Version: 2014/09/21, v1.1 +Info: Expressions with big integers + +Copyright (C) 2014 by Jean-Francois Burnol <jfbu at free dot fr> + +This work 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. This version of this license is in + http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/lppl-1-3c.txt +and the latest version of this license is in + http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt +and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of +LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later. + +This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained". + +This Current Maintainer of this work is Jean-Francois Burnol. + +This work consists of the main source file bnumexpr.dtx +and the derived files + bnumexpr.sty, bnumexpr.pdf, bnumexpr.ins, bnumexpr.tex + +Usage +===== + +\usepackage{bnumexpr} + +Then \thebnumexpr <expression with +,-,*,/,(,)> \relax is like + \the\numexpr <expression with +,-,*,/,(,)> \relax +with the difference of accepting or producing arbitrarily big +integers. + +Example: + \thebnumexpr 30*(21-43*(512-67*(6133-812*2897)))\relax +outputs: + -202785405180 +which would create an arithmetic overflow in \numexpr. + +\bnumexpr...\relax is a scaled down version of \xintiiexpr...\relax +from package xintexpr. + +By default, bnumexpr.sty loads xint.sty for its arithmetic macros +doing addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. + +With option custom, xint.sty is not loaded and it is up to the user +to define \bnumexprAdd, \bnumexprSub, \bnumexprMul, \bnumexprDiv + +Option bigintcalc maps them to the macros from package bigintcalc. + +Option allowpower enables ^ as power operator. + +Installation +============ + +obtain bnumexpr.dtx, bnumexpr.ins and the README from CTAN: + http://www.ctan.org/pkg/bnumexpr + +- "tex bnumexpr.ins" generates the style file +(pre-existing file in the same repertory will be overwritten). + +- without bnumexpr.ins: "tex or latex or pdflatex or xelatex bnumexpr.dtx" +will also generate the style files (and bnumexpr.ins). + +bnumexpr.tex is also extracted, use it for the documentation: + +- with latex+dvipdfmx: latex bnumexpr.tex thrice then dvipdfmx bnumexpr.dvi +Ignore dvipdfmx warnings, but if the pdf file has problems with fonts +(possibly from an old dvipdfmx), use then rather pdflatex or xelatex. + +- with pdflatex or xelatex: run it directly thrice on bnumexpr.dtx, or run +it on bnumexpr.tex after having edited the suitable toggle therein. + +Finishing the installation: (on first installation the destination +repertories may need to be created) + + bnumexpr.sty --> TDS:tex/latex/bnumexpr/ + + bnumexpr.dtx --> TDS:source/latex/bnumexpr/ + bnumexpr.ins --> TDS:source/latex/bnumexpr/ + + bnumexpr.pdf --> TDS:doc/latex/bnumexpr/ + README --> TDS:doc/latex/bnumexpr/ + |