Andy Buckley writes, through the magic of the www.tex.ac.uk upload daemon:
The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: hepparticles Author's name: Andy Buckley Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hepparticles Summary description: Macros for typesetting high energy physics particle names License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
hepparticles is a set of macros for typesetting high energy particle names, to meet the following criteria:
- The main particle name is a Roman or Greek symbol, to be
typeset in upright font in normal contexts.
Additionally a superscript and/or subscript may follow the main symbol.
Particle resonances may also have a resonance specifier which is
typeset in parentheses following the main symbol. In general the parentheses may also be followed by sub- and superscripts.
- The particle names are expected to be used both in and out of
mathematical contexts.
- If the surrounding text is bold or italic then the particle name
should adapt to that context as best as possible (this may not be possible for Greek symbols).
A consequence of point 5 is that the well-known problems with boldness of particle names in section titles, headers and tables of contents automatically disappear if these macros are used.
You can have a look at the package at http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hepparticles although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/README.mirrors
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team