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Article #5428Re: Roman letters in TeX math mode?
From: Jeffrey L. Brown
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1988 21:33
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1988 21:33
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/ hpccc:comp.text / gordan@maccs.McMaster.CA (gordan) / 7:55 pm Nov 7, 1988 /
Is it possible to wave a magic wand so that all letters in TeX math mode
are in Roman font by default rather than math italic?
No, this isn't my idea.
Slapping {\rm ...} around everything isn't really palatable. Help.
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Gordan Palameta
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I haven't actually tried to do this, so I'm sorry if it doesn't work....
How about
<normal text>
\load{\normalsize}{\rm} % go to roman font for math stuff
<math in roman font>
\load{\normalsize}{\mit} % go back to math italic font
<normal text>
There is one gotcha: all charactiers, including super- and subscripts, are
printed in the same font, so stuff might not look too good. I found this
little tidbit in Section C.14.4 in the LaTeX manual.
Jeff Brown
HP Corporate Computing Center
brown%hpccc@hplabs.hp.com, ...hplabs!hpccc!brown
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