A LaTeX package that includes macros for a variety of fundamental constants.
Copyright (C) 2020 by Brian W. Mulligan bwmulligan@astronaos.com
This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in:
http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2006/05/20 or later.
physunits
package also available at CTAN
- some LaTeX distribution.
hyperref
package for LaTeXxcolor
package for LaTeXmdframed
package for LaTeXimakeidx
package for LaTeX
makefile GNU makefile to simplify building and installation
on linux
README.md This file.
CHANGELOG.md List of changes
physconst.ins The installer file
physconst.dtx The package code and documentation
physconst.pdf The package user manual
make
- Run
latex
onphysconst.ins
to create the.sty
file. e.g.latex physconst.ins
. - The following steps apply only if you want the documentation (recommended).
- Run
latex
onphysconst.dtx
to create the.pdf
file. e.g.xelatex physconst.pdf
. - Run
makeindex
to create the index, e.g.makeindex -s gind.ist -o physconst.ind physconst.idx
. - Run
makeindex
to create the change log, e.g.makeindex -s gglo.ist -o physconst.gls physconst.glo
. - Run
latex
onphysconst.dtx
to create the.pdf
file with index and change log. e.g.xelatex physconst.pdf
. - Run
latex
onphysconst.dtx
to get the labels sorted out. e.g.xelatex physconst.pdf
.
Instructions that might help can be for windows can be found at this post on StackExchange.
First build the project as described above.
- Copy the
physconst.sty
into your project where your.tex
files are located.
make localinstall
Instructions that might help can be for windows can be found at this post on StackExchange.
- Figure out where your LaTeX local packages are installed.
- Create a directory named
physconst
in that location. - Copy the
.sty
file into the directory you just created. - Figure out where your LaTeX local package documentation is installed.
- Create a directory named
physconst
in that location. - Copy the
.pdf
file into the directory you just created. - Run
texhash
or the equivalent to let LaTeX know the package is there.
make localuninstall
- Figure out where your LaTeX local packages are installed.
- Delete the directory named
physconst
in that location. - Figure out where your LaTeX local package documentation is installed.
- Delete the directory named
physconst
in that location. - Run
texhash
or the equivalent to let LaTeX know the package is gone.