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sga@piefed.social 3 days agothey kinda are not. it is most likely typeset in latex, where in equation mode all letters by default get italicised. and it is kinda accpeted as appropriate typesetting.
Comment on We can't all be astronauts.
sga@piefed.social 3 days agothey kinda are not. it is most likely typeset in latex, where in equation mode all letters by default get italicised. and it is kinda accpeted as appropriate typesetting.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 days ago
Well, it’s not appropriate typesseting. Unlike unknowns and constants (𝑥, 𝑐), units need to be manually unitalicized. In DOCX, this also prevents wide kerning (which is OK for several multiplied constants/unknowns but not multi-letter units). I only use serif italics for liter (𝑙), and only outside equations (it’s not SI base anyway), because I think a simple “l” can be confused with “I” or “1” while the alternatives (L, ℓ) look terrible in typesetting.
sga@piefed.social 3 days ago
well i have learnt something, thanks. i usually just unitalicise names (so here, that would be moon and me, but not N, kg, m). I have seen units italicised a lot (professor notes, even papers), so i assumed it was accepted. i have seen normal ones too, and bold also (that is usually for vector quantities i think).
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 days ago
Yup. The reason I unitalicise names is to stop the wide kerning. It’s moon and me, not 𝑚 𝑜 𝑜 𝑛 and 𝑚 𝑒.
sga@piefed.social 3 days ago
well vectors and matrices are both tensors, so and iirc, while writing by hand, we use lines to denote dimesions (1 and 2 respectively), and we use bold while typing