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+The PM-ISOmath package, version 1.00 of 2017-08-22
+Original author: Claudio Beccari, 2017
+LaTeX Project Public Licence LPPL v.1.3 (or later)
+
+The PM-ISOmath name stands for "Poor Man ISO Math". In substance
+ this package is a poor man solution to the task of typesetting
+ math fulfilling the ISO regulations "for physical sciences and technology" (formerli regulations ISO 31/XI, now ISO\,80000).
+ These regulations refer mostly to the family, series and shape
+ of fonts to be used with symbols of various nature.
+
+This package gets inspiration from the ISOmath package by Günter
+Milde, but tries to get the same results without using any math
+[font] groups (or families). As pdfLaTeX users may recall, this
+typesetting program may se at maximum 16 math [font] groups (or
+math font families); sometimes this number results in an error
+that forbids the user to use the symbols s/he needs.
+
+The trick used in this package consists in employing text fonts
+within the \text command (defined by the amsmath package that, therefore, is a dependence to which pmisomath is subjected) and
+chose text font families, series, and shapes to be used within
+that command argument.
+
+The commands are such as to fulfil some math requirements; for
+example while in the scope of the \boldmath declaration, the
+series is automatically set to bold without any user intervention.
+The font size is automatically taken care by \text, so that fonts
+have the correct size also while typesetting exponents or subscripts.
+
+Nevertheless, through proper advanced command options, the user
+remains the person principally responsible of using the right
+font for the right symbol in a document that must fulfil the
+ISO regulations.
+
+This package is usable only with pdfLaTeX; LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX
+can access OpenType math fonts through the package unicode-math,
+and with the "math-style=ISO" option they have the math switching
+commands agree with the ISO regulations.
+
+pdfLATeX users have available some packages to fulfil the ISO requirements; principally the ISOmath package thet is subject
+to a number of limitations due the the particular math environment
+of the user, and libertinust1math that produces a complete set-up
+with math fonts that match very well text fonts that are darker
+than the standard default Computer Modern ones (including the
+CM-super and the Latin Modern ones).
+
+This package works very well with the Latin Modern fonts; in
+practice in math mode it uses the same Latin text fonts, and
+the corresponding families, series, and shapes of the LGR
+encoded CBfonts; it may work also with the CM and the CM-super
+fonts, but the original author never uses them, therefore he
+cannot guarantee any suitable result.
+
+For installation of this package, simply run the pmisomath.dtx
+through pdfLaTeX (and only pdfLaTeX); move the produced sty file
+to the .../tex/latex/pmisomath/ folder; if it does not exist,
+create it; similarly move pmisomath.dtx to .../source/latex/pmisomath/
+and pmisomath.pdf to .../doc/latex/pmisomath/.
+
+
+