X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["721" "Thu" "10" "April" "1997" "09:23:55" "-0400" "Barbara Beeton" "bnb@MATH.AMS.ORG" nil "14" "Re: math fonts" "^Date:" nil nil "4" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA26072; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:24:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <13.B2AB3C04@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:24:08 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 123107 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:24:02 +0200 Received: from math.ams.org (math.ams.org [130.44.210.14]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with SMTP id PAA18367 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:24:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from axp14.ams.org by math.ams.org via smtpd (for relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.201]) with SMTP; 10 Apr 1997 13:23:56 UT Received: from AXP14.AMS.ORG by AXP14.AMS.ORG (PMDF V5.1-8 #16534) id <01IHJ7TI4G7K00010F@AXP14.AMS.ORG> for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:23:55 EST MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Mail-system-version: Message-ID: <860678635.34108.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <9704101205.AA08054@sgibulirsch6.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:23:55 -0400 From: Barbara Beeton Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: math fonts Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1911 johannes kuester writes: ... to include the upright "d" seems arbitrary, as other upright glyphs aren't taken into account. this is not arbitrary, and is there for the same reason that an upright partial sign is included among the "extra greek-like material" -- it is to represent the differential operator, which is upright according to an iso standard for math notation (whose reference number i don't remember at the moment). since that standard was developed by engineers, not mathematicians, actual practice in those two communities may differ, but the fact remains that the upright "d" is standardized and the (more familiar to me) italic "d" is not. -- bb