On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It is true that font variations carry a meaning in mathematics,
> but it is a meaning that is determined in each book separately.
> One paper will use fraktur c for the cardinality of the continuum,
> another paper will use italic c, while in a third paper a symbol
> is given in fraktur if and only if it denotes a Lie algebra.
An interesting point. This suggests that the mathematicians need to pay a
bit more attention to the text-formatting community, and in particular to
the difference between procedural markup and descriptive markup -- they
are making the same old mistakes.
What is wanted is not a way of saying "Fraktur Lowercase C", but a way of
saying "Lie Algebra Lowercase C"... which a particular formatting style
might print as a Fraktur lowercase C.
Henry Spencer
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