X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["961" "Fri" "27" "November" "1998" "18:03:31" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "21" "Re: What is \"base\" LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00158; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:03:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.C3836B2B@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:03:56 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411936 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:03:50 +0100 Received: from mail0.nada.kth.se (mail0.nada.kth.se [130.237.222.70]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10375 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:03:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.82] (sl111.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.137]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA04082 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:03:37 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: <199811262254.IAA20689@bigted.maths.uq.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <13918.51671.471599.718308@srahtz> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:03:31 +0100 From: Hans Aberg 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: 2967 At 15:48 +0000 1998/11/27, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > > 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. One alternative would be that you learn to not always read things too literally but try to see the intention as well (it might save you some work :-) ): My guess is that I had in my mind writing One should use 10 pt or something, and regardless how you magnify it to or something. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: