# Bosisio's LaTeX packages

by F. Bosisio at the "Politecnico di Milano", Italy.

For informations on the whole LaTeX packages see any CTAN archive, like http://www.tex.ac.uk

At now the available packages are

mathenv
Extended and more powerful math-environments
mathcmd
Extended math-mode commands
sobolev
Commands to deal with Sobolev and Hilbert spaces
graphfig
Simple and powerful way of using graphics files inside figures
dblfont
An easy way to define blackboard-bold letters
accenti
This package is only available here and not in the CTAN archive, since its only aim is to simplify the usage of accents in the Italian language.

If you have any suggestions, find any bugs or make any improvment on any of my packages, please let me know about it by sending an E-mail at the following address: bosisio@mate.polimi.it

# The "mathenv" package

This package provides some environments and commands which I found very useful in math-mode.

The new math environments are used to make multi-line formulas and systems of equations, both numbered or unnumbered. Also the standard equation environment may be redefined so that it has the same optional argument as the other ones (this optional argument is simply a label for cross-referencies).

Also a very simple way of making adjustable-size matching braces is available.

The source file is mathenv.dtx, which also deserves as an installation driver: simply run it through LaTeX in order to get the corresponding mathenv.sty file and also the documentation driver mathenv.drv (which you must run throught LaTeX to get the documentation).

# The "mathcmd" package

This package provides some commands which I found very useful in math-mode.

The new commands include derivatives, vectors operators, arrow-limits, integrals and sums.

The source file is mathcmd.dtx, which also deserves as an installation driver: simply run it through LaTeX in order to get the corresponding mathcmd.sty file and also the documentation driver mathcmd.drv (which you must run throught LaTeX to get the documentation).

# The "sobolev" package

This package provides some commands which I found very useful when dealing with higher Mathematics that envolves the use of Hilbert and Sobolev spaces.

The new commands include norm, semi-norm, scalar products, crochet symbols, besides the various Sobolev spaces.

The source file is sobolev.dtx, which also deserves as an installation driver: simply run it through LaTeX in order to get the corresponding sobolev.sty file and also the documentation driver sobolev.drv (which you must run throught LaTeX to get the documentation).

# The "graphfig" package

This package provides some very powerful commands to deal with figures and graphics files in LaTeX.

It provides a new Figure environment and a \graphfile command: the combined use of these authomatically produce a correct centering of the graph(s) with respect to the page. Moreover, subfigures can be handled in the same way and hard-to-discover errors (such as a \label preceding a \caption) are eliminated.

The source file is graphfig.dtx, which also deserves as an installation driver: simply run it through LaTeX in order to get the corresponding graphfig.sty file and also the documentation driver graphfig.drv (which you must run throught LaTeX to get the documentation).

# The "dblfont" package

This package provides a simple way to define new commands whose goal is to print a letter in the blackboard-bold font.

The source file is dblfont.dtx, which also deserves as an installation driver: simply run it through LaTeX in order to get the corresponding dblfont.sty file and also the documentation driver dblfont.drv (which you must run throught LaTeX to get the documentation).

# The package "accenti"

This package provides a shorter version of the accents-making commands of LaTeX. They were explicitly build for Italian language, so that only the accents that occurr in it are handled (the standard LaTeX accents commands still remains available, though): for this reason this was not made a standard package available throught CTAN archives.

Nevertheless, I let it here since italian writers may find it useful, expecially if they work with an italian keyboard (i.e. one without a key for the backquote character). In such a case, a suitable option is given to let LaTeX understand the extended ASCII characters that represents accented letters: however, if you use it remember that this may fail on some systems (e.g. when copying the file on a UNIX machine).

The source file is accenti.dtx, which also deserves as an installation driver: simply run it through LaTeX in order to get the corresponding accenti.sty file and also the documentation driver accenti.drv (which you must run throught LaTeX to get the documentation).

F. Bosisio / Politecnico di Milano (Italy) / bosisio@mate.polimi.it/ revised April 1998