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Article #6389Re: Slanted + signs in italic text?
From: Gerald Edgar
Date: Wed, 17 May 1989 12:14
Date: Wed, 17 May 1989 12:14
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In article <47700053@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>to slanted ones ($\theta$ {\it +} $\theta$) and to my eyes it looks
>more normal. What do the cognoscenti out there think of this?
REAL math books do not use slanted + signs. Of course, with TeX,
you can do whatever you want. But I think you should do things as
much like everyone else as possible, or the reader will be distracted.
--
Gerald A. Edgar
Department of Mathematics TS1871@OHSTVMA.bitnet
The Ohio State University gae@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu
Columbus, OH 43210 ...!{att,pyramid}!osu-cis!sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu!gae
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu!gae From: gae@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Slanted + signs in italic text? Message-ID: <566@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu> Date: 17 May 89 12:14:57 GMT References: <47700053@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: gae@sphere.UUCP (Gerald Edgar) Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math. Lines: 16