The rigidnotation LaTeX package

This package provides LaTeX macros to easily and concisely typeset vectors and matrices in a flexible way such as to follow the RIGID notation convention. The package enables the user to define custom commands that can then be used in any math-mode environment to efficiently and rigorously typeset the notational elements commonly used in robotics research (and many other fields) for position vectors, rotation matrices, pose matrices, etc.

Documentation

This package is available on CTAN, and a PDF manual is accessible here.

Local Installation

If you want to install the package manually on your local computer, you can follow the steps outlined below.

1. Run kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME to get the path to your TeX package home. Assuming that your TeX package home is $TEXHOME,
2. Run mkdir -p $TEXHOME/tex/latex/rigidnotation/ to create a directory for this package.
3. Run tex rigidnotation.ins to generate the rigidnotation.sty macro file.
4. Run cp rigidnotation.sty $TEXHOME/tex/latex/rigidnotation/ to install the package.
5. Run pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode rigidnotation.dtx to build the documentation.
6. Run texhash $TEXHOME to update the LaTeX package tree.

Requirements

This package depends on mathtools and xparse packages, both of which are widely used.

License

Copyright (C) 2024 Philippe Nadeau

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 2008-05-04 or later.