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From: ejo@ims.alaska.edu (Eric Olson)
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Subject: Re: What is the name of this symbol?
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In article <1991May3.220706.28541@cl.cam.ac.uk> cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson) writes:
>In article <1991May03.103344.5567@cs.ruu.nl> nico@cs.ruu.nl (Nico Verwer) writes:
>>It is nabla, as several posters have pointed out. In TeX, it is \nabla, see
>>the LaTeX book p. 45.
>P-LEASE! Either
> In TeX, it is \nabla, see p. 435 of the TeXbook
>or
> In LaTeX, is is \nabla, see p. 45 of the LaTeX book

>I spend far too much of my life telling people "No, not everything that
>works in Plain TeX works in LaTeX", and "No, not everything that works 
>in LaTeX works in Plain TeX" and "RT(right)FM".


uh...
But in this case, it IS exactly the same in both cases, and who cares
where you look it up?

There's a time for correctness, and a time when you're just being
silly.

Eric Olson <ejo@ims.alaska.edu> Gryphon Gang Fairbanks AK 99775