Re: Single character in Italics. Ervin Doyle;
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- Subject: [mg14692] Re: [mg14664] Single character in Italics. Ervin Doyle;
- From: Jurgen Tischer <jtischer at col2.telecom.com.co>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 21:15:49 -0500
- Organization: Universidad del Valle
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Hi Ervin, have a look at Help, SingleLetterItalics to see when it happens and how to avoid it. As to your question why it happens: It's a tradition in mathematical typesetting to use italics for names of variables in formulas (Knuth developed a special math italic font for that use). Since variables mostly are given single letter names, it's reasonable to suppose it could be welcome by the user to have this as a build-in feature. If you want to know more about math typesetting I recommend "The TEXbook" by Donald E. Knuth, especially chapter 16 and above. Jurgen "Ervin F. Doyle" wrote: > > Hello: > I recently purchased Mathematica 3.0.1. When I type a single character > like "a" it comes out in italics. However, when I type two or more > characters like "ad" or "abc" I get the characters in bold face. This > italic single character appears when I'm setting up equations like f > := ... or g = ....Is there a reason for this? Do I have to use > double characters in my definitions etc. to avoid the italics when I > don't want them. > Thanks Ervin Doyle
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- Single character in Italics. Ervin Doyle;
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- Single character in Italics. Ervin Doyle;