Miscellaneous

Compatibility PS-LaTeX General PS-LaTeX is a PostScript-based version of LaTeX, which uses PostScript fonts rather than Computer Modern ones wherever possible. This is particularly useful to users of the iso style as ISO's preferred fonts are Univers, Helvetica and Times Roman (see ``Notes to TC 97 Project Editors on presentation of draft International Standards (DIS)'', probably available from ISO/TC 97 Secretariat).

PS-LaTeX was written by Mario Wolczko of the University of Manchester and copies are available from the Clarkson archive (archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu), the Aston archive (texserver@spock.aston.ac.uk), me (ndn@seg.npl.co.uk) or Mario himself (mario@ux.cs.man.ac.uk). Pre-requisites for running PS-LaTeX are: LaTeX, a PostScript output device and a DVI->PostScript driver which recognises PostScript fonts (available from the above addresses).

Compatibility The iso style detects when it is running under PS-LaTeX and redefines the commands necessary to ensure unchanged output. As a result, an iso style file can be run under LaTeX or PS-LaTeX with no alteration.

Style options Style options fall into two classes:

Those which add facilities to LaTeX such as vdm and zed.
Those which change spacings (\textwidth etc) such as a4 and a4wide.

The iso style can be used with style options of the first variety with only one proviso: some of these styles assume that the document is set in one of 10, 11 or 12 point; the default for iso documents is 9 point so the iso style masquerades as 10 point for the benefit of these other styles.
$\begin{note} For LaTeX hackers: this is implemented by setting \verb\vert\@ptsize\vert to zero. \end{note}$

A little more caution should be used with the second variety of style option: since both they and the iso style change layout parameters, the end result is unlikely to look like either an ISO standard or the type of document promised by the style option. However, there should not be any catastrophic results.

Sources The iso style is based on ``Notes to TC97 Project Editors on presentation draft International Standards (DIS)'' and ``Rules for drafting and presentation of International Standards''. It was produced by extensive modification of Leslie Lamport's ``article'' style for LaTeX.

Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Tony Mansfield and Roger Scowen for their patience during development of the iso style and their sterling work in testing it.

Author The iso style was written by:
Nicolas North,
Division of Information Technology and Computing,
National Physical Laboratory,
Teddington,
Middlesex, TW11 0LW,
U.K.
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