# New on CTAN: mathdots.sty

Date: March 1, 2002 3:29:52 PM CET
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror on the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint at tug.ctan.org ========================================================================= The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: mathdots.sty Author's name: Danial H. Luecking Location on CTAN: macros/generic Summary description: Defines an "inverse \ddots" and improves \ddots and \vdots. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The mathdots packages provides the command \iddots for diagonal dots slanting the opposite of \ddots. It also modifies the LaTeX/plainTeX \ddots and \vdots so that they change size with LaTeX's size changing commands (such as \large), and also change size appropriately in sub- and superscripts. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

## mathdots – Commands to produce dots in math that respect font size

Redefines \ddots and \vdots, and defines \iddots. The dots produced by \iddots slant in the opposite direction to \ddots. All the commands are designed to change size appropriately in scripts, as well as in response to size changing commands. The commands may also be used in plain .

 Package mathdots Version 0.9 Copyright 2001–2014 Daniel H. Luecking Maintainer Daniel H. Luecking

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