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[Jeremy Henty <address@hidden>]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 12:53:57PM +0200, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:31:49PM +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> > I was able to do it by inserting a zero-width space between the "d"
> > and "x" of "dx" but that's an awful hack.
> 
> This is exactly what you *should* do, since dx *means* d applied to
> x.

And there's no less awkward way to do this?  That would make
typesetting calculus in TeXmacs rather painful.  And not just
calculus.  Surely I don't have to go through such convolutions just to
write "the area of a rectangle of height $h$ and width $w$ is $wh$".

> However, you should rather use "d tab tab", so as to distinguish
> the operator d from the letter d.

That generates an upright "d".  I want a math italic "d", just as it
is in every calculus text I've ever seen.

Jeremy Henty