On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:25:53PM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Paul Johnson schrieb: > > >I was lazy and typed several pages with ordinary text for variables x, > >y, and z. Later, I wanted to convert those to math, and I try to > >highlight the things and hit C-m. That does create the math box, but it > >does not convert the existing character to the math font. The only fix > >I could find was to manually retype all the letters I wanted converted. > > Why do you want to use formulas for variables?
Because that's the correct way (TM). > I assume that you only want them to be italic, right? Then simply > highlight them and use the button with the exclamation mark. This is a really bad advice pretty much in line with "You don't really want Section headings, you just want things in 18 pt bold font". Andre'
