On 11/07/2012 18:30, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
... For example, in formula mode, when you type “x”, Word by default
changes it to mathematical italic x. It does *not* used a normal “x”
of the font it uses in formulas (Cambria Math)—that font lacks italic,
and if you “italicize” it, you get fake italic, algorithmically
slanted normal letter, which is very different from mathematical
italic letters of the font.
That is amusing. I spent a lot of time trying to find math symbol "x"
when preparing a document in MSWord for publication, before discovering
I didn't have to search for that at all!
:-)
mg
It’s interesting to see such usage—it’s probably the most common use
of non-BMP characters that people encounter, even thought we are
usually ignorant of what’s really happening here, and it *looks* like
play with fonts only.
Yucca
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