On Mar 25, 5:20 pm, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 25, 6:05 am, Henryk Trappmann <bo198...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Because Bourbaki and Serre said so? > > Sorry guys but thats the strangest justificiation Iv ever heard. > > I don't know quite where you heard it, because it's not what I wrote, > especially the part about Bourbaki.
Its quite close to what you wrote. And the impression of you blindly trusting authorities is deepened by your subsequenct post. > However, if a leading > mathematician like Serre expresses an opinion about something, I think > it's worth paying attention. Its worth paying attention to hear the perhaps high quality arguments. But you didnt mentioned any arguments of Serre or Knuth. Just: they said it, hence we should follow. Thats what I call a strange justification. Also I dont see that this question falls into Serres base competence. I mean would you ask Obama to decide this question? > For what it's worth, Knuth also seems to > dislike the use of blackboard bold fonts in printed material, and he's > probably thought more about technical typesetting than all of us put > together. I think it's dangerous to dismiss his view without further > consideration. If you could bring some arguments of Knuth ...; "dislikes" is not especially a good argument and I see no technical difficulties to use bb fonts. (Except your personal technical problem with jsMath.) > That is, blackboard bold was invented as a substitute for bold when > bold was not available. From this point of view, preferring blackboard > bold over plain bold is like preferring margarine to butter. Thats life, things change form, everything becomes substituted. Do you stay with all things as there were originally invented (telefone, money, clothes, ...)? > I also > happen to think that bold looks better: it fits with the roman and > italic fonts better. Well this is a matter of personal taste. > Unambiguity of mathbb is worth something, but I don't recall ever > being confused by a bold face Z or R or ... because its nearly not used anymore ;) > > By the way, widespread use is not a convincing argument; many people > use Z_p to represent the integers mod p, and I will *not* agree that > this is acceptable usage. I thought we discuss here the usefulness to the mathematical community and not the individual aversions. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
