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hepparticles --- for typesetting high energy particle names
by Andy Buckley <andy@insectnation.org>
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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.
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.
You may also be interested in the heppennames and hepnicenames
packages, which use this package to define a large set of
common 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.
Author: Andy Buckley <andy@insectnation.org>
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hepparticles.sty |
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hepparticles.tex |
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testhepparticles.pdf |
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testhepparticles.tex |
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HEPparticles – Macros for typesetting high energy physics particle names
HEPparticles is a set of macros for typesetting high energy
particle names, to meet the following criteria:
1. The main particle name is a Roman or Greek symbol, to be
typeset in upright font in normal contexts.
2. Additionally a superscript and/or subscript may follow the
main symbol.
3. Particle resonances may also have a resonance specifier
which is typeset in parentheses following the main symbol. In
general the parentheses may also be followed by sub- and
superscripts.
4. The particle names are expected to be used both in and out
of mathematical contexts.
5. If the surrounding text is bold or italic then the particle
name should adapt to that context as best as possible (this may
not be possible for Greek symbols).
A consequence of point 5 is that the well-known problems with
boldness of particle names in section titles, headers and
tables of contents automatically disappear if these macros are
used.
| Documentation |
Package documentation Readme |
| License | The LaTeX Project Public License |
| Maintainer | Andy Buckley |
| Contained in | TeXLive as hepparticles |
| MiKTeX as hepparticles | |
| Topics |
support for typesetting physics documents |
| See also |
maybemath |