limap: A package for typesetting Information Maps

The Information Mapping® method provides a methodology for structuring and presenting information. It claims to be useful for readers who are more concerned about finding the right information than reading the document as a whole. Thus short, highly structured, and context free pieces of information are used.

limap provides a LaTeX style and a LaTeX class. The style contains definitions to typeset maps and blocks according to the Information Mapping® method. The class provides all definitions to typeset a whole document.

Samples

A few sample files are provided which contain dummy documents typeset with limap. They are contained in the sub-directory samples. You can have a look at the documentation of limap itself to see another example.

Installation

Most probably limap is already included in your TeX distribution. Thus consult the documentation of your TeX distribution first to install or update this package.

You can install the package manually. Apply the following steps:

• Run LaTeX on limap.ins

    latex limap.ins

• Move the files limap.cls and limap.sty into a directory read by LaTeX.

• Run LaTeX and makeindex on limap.dtx to produce the documentation

    latex limap.dtx
    makeindex -s gind.ist limap
    makeindex -s gglo.ist -o limap.gls limap.glo
    latex limap.dtx

CTAN Download

limap can be obtained from the CTAN archives:

• https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gene/limap

or via the limap home page

• http://www.gerd-neugebauer.de/software/TeX/limap

or via the source repository at Sourceforge for the most recent development version

• https://sourceforge.net/p/gene-tex-lib/svn/HEAD/tree/limap

Licenses

The sources and derived files of limap are distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License version 1.3c.

The samples in the directory samples are in the Public Domian (Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal))

The documentation is distributed under the Creative Commons Attributation-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Enjoy it!

Gerd Neugebauer