thermodynamics - A package for chemical engineers and others

Thermodynamics texts (textbooks, articles, and so forth) are typically filled with underlined and overlined symbols, partial derivatives surrounded by delimiters and containing subscripts, sums over multiple components, and a myriad of symbols, including superscript and subscript modifiers. This package provides a robust, flexible set of macros to define notation for symbols, partial derivatives, sums, and products frequently encountered in mixture thermodynamics. Changing one's notes from one textbook to another or from one notation style to another can be achieved relatively easily by changing package options, without any changes to the user's code (other than perhaps adjusting line breaks).

Installation

The package is suppled in dtx format with an accompanying ins file to install the package. Run latex thermodynamics.ins to extract the package; instructions for building the documentation are included in the ins file. Note that the package itself (sty file) is required to typeset the documentation.

This package requires the amstext and expl3 packages.

Typesetting the documentation requires several other packages:

• geometry
• fontenc
• textcomp
• amsmath
• pxfonts
• array
• booktabs
• footmisc
• caption