The EQC Handbook

Jan Rheinländer

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Changes

2. Installation

• 2.1 How to obtain EQC
• 2.2 Requirements
• 2.3 Compilation and installation
• 2.4 Using EQC with xemacs auctex mode
• 2.5 Cross-compiling for Windows
• 2.6 Compiling with Cygwin
• 2.7 Binary packages
• 2.8 Bugs

3. Usage

• 3.1 General Usage
• 3.2 Physical units
• 3.3 Library of substitutions
• 3.4 Formatting of floating point numbers
• 3.5 Formatting of equations

4. Reference

• 4.1 Basic syntax
• 4.2 Keywords in the Latex file
• 4.3 Keywords inside equations
• 4.4 Command line arguments

5. Examples

6. Questions and Answers

• 6.1 Why is the spacing between numbers and units ugly?
• 6.2 Why is the spacing between units ugly?
• 6.3 Why doesn't substitution of x^2 = y work in 1/x^2?
• 6.4 How do I get EQC to accept a variable name like \varphi'?
• 6.5 EQC complains about a wrong number of arguments for a self-defined function
• 6.6 EQC does not use my library functions for finding variable values
• 6.7 How do I use bibtex with EQC?
• 6.8 Why do my equations look ugly?
• 6.9 AMS math complains about multiple labels
• 6.10 Why does my self-compiled EQC crash immediately?
• 6.11 When I try to build the package, the command ccache is not found
• 6.12 The program does not build.
• 6.13 Autoconf says that the GiNaC library is not present or has a wrong version, but that's not true.
• 6.14 KDevelop throws a fit after I run dpkg-buildpackage or do a configure by hand

7. Copyright