Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f4HIKjf09518 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:20:45 +0200 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4HIKh708252 . for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:20:43 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C0DEFE.16AEFC80" Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f4HIKh009963 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:20:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.57]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA23037 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:20:42 +0200 (MEST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f4HIKg009959 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:20:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <14.122DE28B@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:18:59 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 495953 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:20:38 +0200 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03997 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:20:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA125154 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:20:38 +0200 Received: from obelix.ee.duth.gr (asterix.ee.duth.gr [193.92.243.98]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f4HIKZP12022 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:20:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (apostolo@localhost) by obelix.ee.duth.gr (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA00733 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 21:21:52 +0300 (EET DST) In-Reply-To: Return-Path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary 2.2 Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 19:21:52 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Apostolos Syropoulos" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4080 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0DEFE.16AEFC80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 17 May 2001, Hans Aberg wrote: > At 18:59 +0200 2001/05/17, Lars Hellstr=F6m wrote: > >>The \epsilon and \varepsilon are definitely semantically different = in > >>(pure) math, > > > >Are they? Please give a verifiable example! > > Here are two examples: > $\epsilon\varepsilon R$ > $\varepsilon R$ > > Today one would probably write one of > $\epsilon\in R$ > $\varepsilon\in R$ > (perhaps with $R$ in black-board bold). I believe your example is incorrect. The right way to write the first formula should be: $\varepsilon \epsilon R$. A.S. **************************************************************** *Apostolos Syropoulos * *snail mail: 366, 28th October Str., GR-671 00 Xanthi, HELLAS * *email : apostolo@ocean1.ee.duth.gr * *phone num.: +30-(0)541-28704 * *home page : http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo * **************************************************************** ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0DEFE.16AEFC80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary 2.2

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Hans Aberg wrote:

> At 18:59 +0200 2001/05/17, Lars Hellstr=F6m = wrote:
> >>The \epsilon and \varepsilon are = definitely semantically different in
> >>(pure) math,
> >
> >Are they? Please give a verifiable = example!
>
> Here are two examples:
>   $\epsilon\varepsilon R$
>   $\varepsilon R$
>
> Today one would probably write one of
>   $\epsilon\in R$
>   $\varepsilon\in R$
> (perhaps with $R$ in black-board bold).

I believe your example is incorrect. The right way to = write the first
formula should be:
$\varepsilon \epsilon R$.
A.S.

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