isomath

Mathematical style for science and technology

Date: 2012-09-04
Copyright: © 2008, 2012 Günter Milde <milde@users.sf.net>
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 provides tools for a mathematical style that conforms to the International Standard ISO 80000-2 and is common in science and technology: capital Greek letters in italic shape, bold italic and sans-serif bold italic math alphabets with Latin and Greek characters, and macros for markup of vector, matrix and tensor symbols.

Files

README.txt	Requirements, Installation, Usage
README.html	Requirements, Installation, Usage (HTML)
isomath.sty	literate source (the actual LaTeX package)
isomath.sty.txt	literate source (text version)
isomath.sty.html	literate source (HTML)
isomath.txt	user documentation (source)
isomath.html	user documentation (HTML)
isomath.pdf	user 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 Docutils and pdflatex were used to generate the HTML and PDF documentation from the reStructuredText sources.

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

If possible, get this package from your distribution using its installation manager.

Otherwise, make sure LaTeX can find the file isomath.sty:

Download and unpack isomath.zip or just download isomath.sty.
Copy/Move/Link isomath.sty to a suitable place in the TDS and run texhash, or place it in the current working directory (e.g. for testing).

Usage

Load the package and (optionally) change the default \vec macro with:

\usepackage{isomath}
\renewcommand{\vec}{\vectorsym}  % optional

Option description, more examples and usage hints are in the user documentation.