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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hepparticles/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hepparticles/README index f7071fa3894..f67cfcbd6aa 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hepparticles/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hepparticles/README @@ -2,32 +2,36 @@ hepparticles --- for typesetting high energy particle names by Andy Buckley <andy@insectnation.org> ----------------------------------------------------------- -hepparticles is a set of macros for typesetting high energy -particle names. It provides a robust (?) and consistent structure -within which to typeset the names and along the way solves many -problems with alignment and text styles which otherwise make -themselves known. +hepparticles is a set of macros for typesetting high energy particle names. It +provides a robust and consistent structure within which to typeset the names and +along the way solves many problems with alignment and text styles which +otherwise make themselves known. -Chief amongst the problems solved by hepparticles is that the -problems with boldness of particle names typeset in math mode -when used in section titles, headers and tables of contents -disappear. The typesetting convention by default uses upright -names for "concrete" particles and italic type for generic -particle labels but the convention can be specified at -package-include time, making this package suitable for journal -use. +Chief amongst the problems solved by hepparticles is that the boldness of +particle names typeset in math mode when used in section titles, headers and +tables of contents disappears. hepparticles ensures that particle names remain +bold, italic, or in sans-serif font to match the surrounding font context. The +typesetting convention by default uses upright names for "concrete" particles +and italic type for generic particle labels but the convention can be specified +at package-include time, making this package suitable for use with journals +which require alternative styles. + +hepparticles also applies small but significant horizontal shifts to sub- and +super-scripts and overlines and tildes for antiparticles and supersymmetric +particles respectively (as well as the extremely rarely used SUSY +antiparticles!) and makes use of the subdepth package to ensure that all particle +name sub- and super-scripts are typeset at the same heights. Fuller documentation for this package can be found in the files -hepparticles.{ps,pdf}, distributed with the package and some -examples (used for debugging) are in testhepparticles.{ps,pdf}, -with source code in testhepparticles.tex. +hepparticles.{ps,pdf}, distributed with the package and some examples (used for +debugging) are in testhepparticles.{ps,pdf}, with source code in +testhepparticles.tex. -You may also be interested in the heppennames and hepnicenames -packages, which use this package to define a large set of -common particle names. +You may also be interested in the hepnames package, which uses this one to +define a large set of standard particle names. -This material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License. -See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html -for the details of that license. +This material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License. See +http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html for the +details of that license. -Author: Andy Buckley <andy@insectnation.org>
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