William Adams skrev:
On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Niklas Huldén wrote:
I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled
\usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole
document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood
correctly one should not use oldstylenums except in the main text body.
Why?
Well, I asked myself the same question when looking at older books which
appear to use "oldstylenums" (called "gemena siffror" in swedish) in
tables also (and I think they look beautiful). But googling I found some
advice to never use theese in tables or graphs. Maybe we have some
confusion with the fact that you should not use them in mathematical
writing. There are a lot of strict rools going around in there :)
I continue happily with my script.
Thank you and my best regards!
Niklas
So long as things line up decently (I forget if the oldstyle figures in
mathpazo are proportional or lining) things should be fine.
Charles Babbage (among others) advocated strongly for the additional
differentiation which osf provide in tabular material.
William
