6. Logicians' miscellany

Laying out theorems, lemmas etc., and marking succeeding proofs:

  • amsthm.sty (the theorem setup of the AMS document classes amsart, amsbook, etc., in stand-alone package form, which should be in any LaTeX distribution) defines environments which are much more configurable than the basic LaTeX ‘theorem’ environment. There’s a description here, and a more extensive account in Chapter 3 of the Companion.
  • ntheorem.sty (Wolfgang May and Andreas Schedler) is another, even more flexible, package.
  • The thmtools bundle (Ulrich M. Schwarz 2010) contains a number of useful packages, in particular thm-restate.sty which allows you to label a theorem and then restate it later (with the same number).
  • If you just need a correctly-placed end-of-proof marker, then QED.sty (Paul Taylor, 1993-2003) supplies right-justified marks.

Setting algorithms

  • Use algorithms.sty (Peter Williams, 1996, 2004, Rogério Brito 2005) for laying out algorithms in a standard form).

Branching  quantifiers

  • The neatest way of setting these is suggested by Colin McClarty: use the pmatrix structure available in amsmath package, illustrated here: branching quantifiers.

Back to Frege

  • begriff.sty (Josh Parsons, 2003) sets Begriffsschrift-style expressions.

Finally,

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