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[Lukasz Stafiniak <address@hidden>]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 6:11 PM, El.Douwen <address@hidden> wrote:
> hi
> i had asked for the writing of AB and Marc suggested to write A[space]B so 
> that the italic of A be the same than i the other parts of the document.
> for the little letters i have always written a*b and the * is invisible. 
> Typing a space b gives the same result but is quite shorter and easier to do
> is there a typographic reason to prefer the use of * than the use of space 
> or is it ok ?
> Sacha

I observed that in recent TeXmacs, [space] is translated as "apply" in
the status bar, rather than "multiply" (and it just is a space in the
source). I like this suggestion (I actually use "apply", like in
ML/Haskell languages), although I'm not sure if typographically
"apply" should be shorter.