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>> 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
>
> * means multiply (as in '2*x')
> space means 'apply', that is, function application (as in 'sin x')
>
> You may not (want to) follow these conventions,
> but this will make your formulas semantically incorrect
> (e.g. if you would copy and paste them in a computer algebra session,
> then they won't be interpreted in the intended way).

that is exactly the answer i was waiting for
i will systematically write wiht* for multiply and space for apply
thank joris

i write you in private for something else

Sacha

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• [TeXmacs] ab=a times b, El.Douwen, 12/11/2011
  • Re: [TeXmacs] ab=a times b, Lukasz Stafiniak, 12/12/2011
    • Re: [TeXmacs] ab=a times b, Alvaro Tejero Cantero, 12/12/2011
      • Re: [TeXmacs] ab=a times b, Pedro Sanchez, 12/12/2011
  • Re: [TeXmacs] ab=a times b, Joris van der Hoeven, 12/12/2011
    • Re: [TeXmacs] ab=a times b, El.Douwen, 12/13/2011
    • Re: [TeXmacs] ab=a times b, El.Douwen, 12/17/2011
      • Re: [TeXmacs] ab=a times b, Lukasz Stafiniak, 12/17/2011
        • Re: [TeXmacs] ab=a times b, Adrian S., 12/17/2011
          • Re: [TeXmacs] ab=a times b, El.Douwen, 12/18/2011
          • Re: [TeXmacs] ab=a times b, Lukasz Stafiniak, 12/18/2011
      • [TeXmacs] Aspell and Ispell problem, Paolo Bacchetta, 12/17/2011
        • Re: [TeXmacs] Aspell and Ispell problem, Gubinelli Massimiliano, 12/17/2011
          • Re: [TeXmacs] Aspell and Ispell problem, Paolo Bacchetta, 12/19/2011

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