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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:

> Hi *,
>
> > > However, I agree with Jay that the 'd' after the integrand should be in
> > > roman
> > > font. I do not know what is typographically correct, that is just my
> > > two
> > > cents.
> > This opinion can indeed be defended, but it is not the current
> > typographical tradition.
>
> Some publishers (e.g., Springer-Verlag) require exactly this: d in
> integrals and derivatives, i (the imaginary unit), e (exp(1)) *must* be in
> roman.

I know, especially for i and e (maybe I should create macros \i, \e and \d);
this happened to me for one paper (published by Elsevier).
However, a few weeks ago, a friend of mine made the same remark and
I have looked at a few dozen of books from different publishers in
my personal library; none of them used this convention.

-Joris-

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• \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Daniel Duparc, 03/01/2002
  • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Jay Belanger, 03/01/2002
    • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/01/2002
      • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, David Allouche, 03/01/2002
        • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/01/2002
          • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Andrey G. Grozin, 03/02/2002
            • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/02/2002
              • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Andrey G. Grozin, 03/02/2002
              • Convention for products and operators--, Álvaro Tejero Cantero, 03/02/2002
              • Re: Convention for products and operators--, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/02/2002
              • Wiki, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/02/2002
      • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Michael John Downes, 03/04/2002
        • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/04/2002

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