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Re: itma.sty and nfss problem

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From: Sven Gohlke
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 16:24
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In <D.LOVE.93Apr28182313@dlpx1.dl.ac.uk> d.love@dl.ac.uk (Dave Love) writes:

>I doubt this is what's wanted.  If you want a new `math version',
>which uses non-math italic *for letters only* rather than having to
>use \itmath all the time, then in the current NFSS (I think) you have
>to use the low-level commands.  itma.sty looks as though it was lifted
>from Spivey's zed.sty.  I have patches to this to use NFSS, but
>Sebastian Rahtz has done similar things -- check out oz.sty in his
>PSNFSS distribution in the archives.

No, the only safe way to do such thing is to write your own environment.
Of course you have to do MUCH more things but your environmentstyle can be
easy implemented in LaTeX in a save way.

It's just a little bit philosophy, I don't like those ugly hacks.

Sven
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Subject: Re: itma.sty and nfss problem
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