isomath: Math for scientists

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

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

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

[typefaces]

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

Index of /sites/ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/isomath