isomath: Math for scientists
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:Date:      2009-06-19
:Copyright: © 2008, 2009 Günter Milde <milde@users.berlios.de>

:Licence:   This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
	    conditions of the `LaTeX Project Public License`_, either 
	    version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version.
	    
:Abstract:  The isomath package enables formatting Greek and Latin 
            letters as symbols for vectors, matrices, and tensors 
            in the typefaces recommended for scientific papers 
            by the International Standard ISO 31.
	    For this, a *bold italic* and a *sans-serif bold italic* 
	    math alphabet are defined.

History
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.. class:: borderless

===  ============  ========================================================
0.1    2008-09-25  first public version.
0.2    2008-10-02  bugfix: a usage example was uncommented;
\                  updated documentation;
\                  define \mathsans only if OMLmathsans is true;
\                  option reuseMathalphabets -> reuseMathAlphabets.
0.3    2009-06-19  documentation update;
\                  fix OMLmathrm and OMLmathsans definitions;
\		   switch license to LPPL		   
===  ============  ========================================================


Files
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:README.txt:       Requirements, Installation, Usage
:README.html:      browser friendly README

:isomath.sty:      isomath LaTeX package
:isomath.sty.txt:  Documentation (source)
:isomath.sty.html: Documentation (HTML)
:isomath.sty.pdf:  Documentation (PDF)

:isomath-test.tex: Test example (source)
:isomath-test.pdf: Test example (PDF output)

The bidirectional text <-> code converter PyLit_ can convert between
``isomath.sty`` and ``isomath.sty.txt``. 

The Python Docutils_ and pdflatex were used to generate the HTML and PDF
documentation.


Requirements
============

This package builds on and extends fixmath_ by Walter Schmidt.
It also requires kvoptions_. 

The cmbright_ package is recommended for *sans-serif italic* and *sans-serif
bold italic* fonts matching with Computer Modern and derivatives.

All required packages are part of TeXLive and MikTeX.

Installation
============

* Unpack isomath.zip (preferabely in a TDS_ documentation folder).

* Make sure LaTeX can find isomath.sty:

  + Copy/Move/Link it to a suitable place in the TDS_ and run texhash,
  + or place it in the current working directory (e.g. for testing).


Usage Example
=============

Use cmbright for the sans-serif math alphabets and redefine the
``\vec`` macro to typeset its argument in *bold italic*::

  \usepackage[sfdefault=cmbr]{isomath}
  \renewcommand{\vec}{\vectorsym}

More examples and usage hints are in the documentation files.


References
==========

.. _LaTeX Project Public License: http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

.. [typefaces] `Typefaces for Symbols in Scientific Manuscripts`:
   http://physics.nist.gov/Document/typefaces.pdf

.. _pylit: http://pylit.berlios.de
.. _reStructured Text: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
.. _docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

.. _cmbright: http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/cmbright.html
.. _fixmath: http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/fixmath.html
.. _kvoptions: http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/kvoptions.html

.. _TDS: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tds