Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:42:34 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0OFgV6C017382 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:42:33 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h0OFUxtt023136; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:30:59 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C2C3BF.367B1100" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id h0O3PCNR014696; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:23:31 +0100 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 9071 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:23:31 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id h0OFNU5f021160 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:23:30 +0100 Received: from iwsrz5.mppmu.mpg.de (iwsrz5.mppmu.mpg.de [134.107.2.78]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h0OFUjXM012658 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:30:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de (pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de [134.107.3.54]) by iwsrz5.mppmu.mpg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA7963260 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:30:38 +0100 (NFT) Received: from pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0OFUc2M017753 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:30:38 +0100 Received: from localhost (peb@localhost) by pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h0OFUcXS017750 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:30:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <15915.60496.798501.907773@lin2.idris.fr> <200301232349.20628.tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> <200301241412.36829.tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Jan 2003 15:42:34.0947 (UTC) FILETIME=[370B9130:01C2C3BF] X-Authentication-Warning: pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de: peb owned process doing -bs X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: -4 () EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT_PINE,X_AUTH_WARNING Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: LICR objects in math Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:30:38 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: LICR objects in math Thread-Index: AcLDvzclyz6E0RoqRx25AQEeFtE7iA== From: "Peter Breitenlohner" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4492 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2C3BF.367B1100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, David Kastrup wrote: > Timothy Murphy writes: > > > On Friday 24 January 2003 00:28, David Kastrup wrote: > > > > > If you take a look at printed mathematics in journals, you'll find > > > things like display equations spanning two of three columns. > > > > I have just taken a look at some mathematical journals, > > and none of them seemed to do anything like that. > > ..... Which journal are you referring to? > > I have seen stuff like that (IIRC some awfully expensive Elsevier > journal or similar) but don't have the library at hand right now. One important such (physics) journal with display equations spanning two = of three columns is Phys.Rev. (published by APS). Moreover they sometimes change the number of columns at such a display; all that is achieved by their 'revtex' documentclass (standard LaTeX). As for the virtue of such things: I personally find then hard to read. Peter Breitenlohner ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2C3BF.367B1100 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: LICR objects in math

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, David Kastrup wrote:

>         = Timothy Murphy <tim@BIRDSNEST.MATHS.TCD.IE> writes:
>
> > On Friday 24 January 2003 00:28, David = Kastrup wrote:
> >
> > > If you take a look at printed = mathematics in journals, you'll find
> > > things like display equations spanning = two of three columns.
> >
> > I have just taken a look at some = mathematical journals,
> > and none of them seemed to do anything like = that.
> > .....       = Which journal are you referring to?
>
> I have seen stuff like that (IIRC some awfully = expensive Elsevier
> journal or similar) but don't have the library = at hand right now.

One important such (physics) journal with display = equations spanning two of
three columns is Phys.Rev. (published by APS). = Moreover they sometimes
change the number of columns at such a display; all = that is achieved by
their 'revtex' documentclass (standard LaTeX).

As for the virtue of such things: I personally find = then hard to read.

Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>

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