Directory fonts/esrelation
The ESRELATION package
by Byron Cook, Tauba Auerbach, David Reinfurt
About
The program termination problem, also known at the uniform halting problem, can be defined as: Using a finite amount of time: determine whether a given program will always finish running or could possibly execute forever.
The METAFONT programming and LaTeX package writing and TeX macro programming (especially the TeX macro programming) required to produce these symbols looked like it might, itself, never end. It took more than a year of work in fits and starts to understand how the jalopy of bits and pieces go together to make a font work with LaTeX. The Comprehensive LaTeX2ε Symbol List does not currently include this set, but on completion all of these files will be ready to upload in the correct formats for inclusion. These are implemented as a standard TeX math symbol font, implemented with custom METAFONT sources, rendered on-the-fly as needed by LaTeX. Also provided in this package is a PostScript Type-1 version of the font. Symbols are accessed through macros defined in this package.
Installation
- run latex on esrelation.ins to generate sty, mf, fd files
$ latex esrelation.ins
- run latex (or pdflatex) on esrelation.dtx to generate documentation (including detailed installation instructions)
- determine the location of your local TeX tree by running
$ pdflatex esrelation.dtx
$ kpsewhich –var-val TEXMFLOCAL
(this value will henceforth be referred to as ‘TEXMFLOCAL’)
- install esrelation.sty and uesrelation.fd in
TEXMFLOCAL/tex/latex/esrelation
- install esrelation.mf and esrelation10.mf in
TEXMFLOCAL/fonts/source/public/esrelation
- install esrelation10.pfb in
TEXMFLOCAL/fonts/type1/public/esrelation
- install esrelation.map in
TEXMFLOCAL/fonts/map/dvips/esrelation
NB: all created directories should be set to mode 755 and all of the above files should be set to mode 644.
- update LaTeX font database
$ sudo -H mktexlsr
- update TeX font map
$ sudo -H updmap-sys –enable Map=esrelation.map
- udpate the font database again
$ sudo -H mktexlsr
Resources
Up-to-date source code is hosted on GitHub.
More information about installing TeX fonts can be found here.
License
This work 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 here and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later.
Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (188.9k).
esrelation – Provides a symbol set for describing relations between ordered pairs
Around 2008, researcher Byron Cook and several colleagues began developing a new set of interrelated algorithms capable of automatically reasoning about the behavior of computer programs and other systems (such as biological systems, circuit designs, etc).
At the center of these algorithms were new ideas about the relationships between structures expressable as mathematical sets and relations. Using the language of mathematics and logic, the researchers communicated these new results to others in their community via published papers, research talks, etc. Unfortunately, they found the symbols already available for reasoning about relations lacking (in contrast to sets, which have a long-ago developed and robust symbol vocabulary). Early presentations were unnecessarily cluttered.
To more elegantly express these ideas around relations, Cook recruited artist Tauba Auerbach to help develop a set of symbols. This package provides an math symbol font for describing relations between ordered pairs by using METAFONT.
| Package | esrelation |
| Version | 2015-05-06 |
| Licenses | The LaTeX Project Public License 1.3 |
| Maintainer | David Reinfurt |
| Contained in | TeX Live as esrelation MiKTeX as esrelation |
| Topics | MF Font Font Type1 Font Maths Font |
