X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["429" "Fri" "27" "November" "1998" "15:48:39" "+0000" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "10" "Re: What is \"base\" LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (root@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.158]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25334; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:09:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05079; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:09:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <12.A3DF2B3C@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:51:28 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411765 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:49:32 +0100 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02318 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:49:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]; by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP; for ""; sender "s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk"; id PAA26651; hop 0; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:41:01 GMT Received: from srahtz (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:48:55 +0000 X-Mailer: emacs 20.3.2 (via feedmail 9-beta-3 I); VM 6.61 under Emacs 20.3.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <199811262254.IAA20689@bigted.maths.uq.edu.au> Message-ID: <13918.51671.471599.718308@srahtz> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:48:39 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: What is "base" LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2965 Hans Aberg writes: > Believe it or not, 24pt Lucida New Math is not convenient for displaying > math formulas: One should use 10 pt, and regardless how you magnify it to amazing. now I have seen it all. "One should use 10 pt". I'll get on the phone to all the typographers and designers I have ever met, and tell them. I'll see if its too late to cancel some of the journal issues coming out of Elsevier this week. sebastian