On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > >From user's list where Andre' wrote:
> > For the same reason why math in \emph text is shown upright.
> > I.e. I do not understand the whole "font attribute business" and
> > nobody explained it to me so far or fixed math_support.C.
> >
> > Uhm... so is this a bug then? (should I bugzilla it?)
>
> Rather explain the font stuff to me.
I'm flattered you think I have a clue... my experience with latex is
all from Lyx :-)
> I.e. what font is \mathnormal? Does it depend on the surrounding text?
> What does \mathrm do? Just switch the family? Or something else, too?
> Same for \mathsc, \matit, \mathbf etc?
Googling, I found this: "Math font attributes"
http://www.latex-project.org/guides/fntguide/node13.html
The link seems highly relevant to your question above, but I'll have to
read it properly later tonight and think some more. Then I'll see if I can
come up with something that makes sense...
/Christian
--
Christian Ridderstr�m, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
