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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu ( Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Abolition of Math Italic?
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.050746.11274@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 90 05:07:46 GMT
Sender: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu ( Michael A. Covington)
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 I am just starting to use LaTeX and do a lot of linguistics and
 formal logic. My idea of a formula is something like

      $\exist x ~ donkey(x) \wedge owns(p,x)$

 with a lot of English words in it.

 Is there something simple I can do that will make LaTeX use
 regular italics rather than Math Italic in formulas?
 English words look oddly spaced when set in Math Italic.
 I know I can switch to regular italic in any particular
 instance using \it or \mbox as the case may be, but what I'd like
 is to make Math Italic go away, with one broad stroke.