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This is a funny mixture of "things that are easily fixed with a LaTeX library" and "things that are challenging because good writing is hard" If you write in L
by MengerSponge 3y ago
This is a funny mixture of "things that are easily fixed with a LaTeX library" and "things that are challenging because good writing is hard"
If you write in LaTeX, check out {SIunitX} and {cleveref}.
Also, it's not on this list, but a pet peeve of mine: math mode (italics) should be used for variables and indices. Abbreviations or names shouldn't be set in math mode. For example, the probability of hacker news P sub H should be set as $P_\mathrm{H}$, because H is a name, and not a variable/parameter.
Relatedly, differentials shouldn't be italicized. Its \int\mathrm{d}x, not \int dx.
- bradrn 3y ago> Relatedly, differentials shouldn't be italicized. Its \int\mathrm{d}x, not \int dx. I like using https://www.ctan.org/pkg/diffcoeff https://www.ctan.org/pkg/diffcoeff for this.
- adrianmsmith 3y ago> Relatedly, differentials shouldn't be italicized. Its \int\mathrm{d}x, not \int dx. Interesting. I went to school in the late 80s in the UK. As an adult, I was convinced I'd been taught as a child that the d of dx should not be italicised, as only variables like x should be italicised. But when I checked that belief, I couldn't really find any evidence that that was, or ever had been, the case. I had assumed until I read your comment that I'd misremembered it. If I google for "integration" or "differential equations", and click on the images tab, every result without exception has the d italicised (at least for me).