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From: duchier@cs.yale.edu (Denys Duchier)
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Subject: Re: Abolition of Math Italic?
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Date: 7 Dec 90 17:45:03 GMT
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In-reply-to: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu's message of 7 Dec 90 05:07:46 GMT

In article <1990Dec7.050746.11274@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu ( Michael A. Covington) writes:
 >  [...] to make Math Italic go away, with one broad stroke.

No guarantees, but try:

\everymath{\it}
\everydisplay{\it}

This is not a very good idea.  For example single letters in \it don't
look as good as in \mit (for math, that is).

--Denys