I tend to agree. I've always thought that the italic Greek letters in eqn output look very odd, and unlike anything I usually see in mathematical texts.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 5:48 PM DJ Chase <u9...@posteo.mx> wrote: > On Wed Jul 27, 2022 at 4:54 PM EDT, Robert Goulding wrote: > > That seems to work! The only downside (if it is one), is that Greek in > > mathematical expressions is now also unslanted (see attached). That's no > > big deal for me, as I almost never have Greek text and mathematics in the > > same document (and I prefer upright Greek in math anyway) -- but could > > someone who does write mathematical papers in Greek construe that to be a > > bug, or at least undocumented behavior? > > That’s good — ISO 80000-2:2009 specifies that variables should be in > italics, while constants and operators should be in roman. Since Greek > letters are frequently constants (π) or operators (Σ) it makes sense to > default to roman and specify italics when needed. > > Cheers, > -- > DJ Chase > They, Them, Theirs > -- Robert Goulding Director, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values; Director, Program in History and Philosophy of Science; Assoc. Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, Fellow, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame.
