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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: Abolition of Math Italic?
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Date: 7 Dec 90 17:58:30 GMT
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mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu ( Michael A. Covington) writes:


> 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.

This is a broad stroke:
\everymath{\it\textfont1=\the\font}
\everydisplay=\everymath

I think LaTeX doesn't use the \evrymath and \everydisplay itself,
so this may be sufficient. Otherwise put the sequence of commands
in a convenient small macro.

But are you sure that you don't use any other symbols from the
math italic font? Otherwise you could do this:
\mathcode`a="0061
and so on for all letters. The "00 is the crucial part, the
61 is the hexadecimal ascii code for small 'a'.

Victor.