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From: gae@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Slanted + signs in italic text?
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Date: 17 May 89 12:14:57 GMT
References: <47700053@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: gae@sphere.UUCP (Gerald Edgar)
Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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In article <47700053@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>to slanted ones ($\theta$ {\it +} $\theta$) and to my eyes it looks
>more normal. What do the cognoscenti out there think of this?

REAL math books do not use slanted + signs.  Of course, with TeX,
you can do whatever you want.  But I think you should do things as
much like everyone else as possible, or the reader will be distracted.



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