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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

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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