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Re: Display glitch: \[ImaginaryI] appears as just "i"

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg70618] Re: Display glitch: \[ImaginaryI] appears as just "i"
• From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
• Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 05:14:12 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Stanford University
• References: <eh7b04$ebo$1@smc.vnet.net> <eha51o$b1n$1@smc.vnet.net>

In article <eha51o$b1n$1 at smc.vnet.net>, email at email.com wrote:

> It appears indeed as a "tiny screen font" problem. With Windows 5.2
> version, increasing the zoom to 125% brings back the "ii" form. Also,
> printing (I only tried PDF) gives the good "ii" form.
> 
> GL

Not to wish troubles on others, but it's at least reassuring to know 
that someone else sees this glitch.   Can be disconcerting to encounter 
it when you're doing a calculation that depends critically on choosing 
the correct square root of a complex factor, and suddenly the output 
results start looking weird.