mat@zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu (Mat Watson) (02/26/91)
I've gotten a couple of responses by mail so far (Thank you, I'll mail you soon :-)) and both of them mention using a roman 'exp' with the argument in lagre parens. This *is* the way many journals advise one to set exponentials. However, this is for my dissertation, and the larger 'e' looks real nice. --Mat mat@zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu
dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (02/26/91)
In article <MAT.91Feb24213314@zeus.organpipe.cs.arizona.edu>, mat@zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu (Mat Watson) writes: > I like to use bold italics to represent vector, and I've found a > way to do it: > \def\bfr{ \hbox{ \boldmath $r$ }} > where I use \bfr in my document to produce a bold italic 'r'. > However, there are two reasons why I don't like this solution. > One: it probably won't work in superscript or subscripts. > Two: it's not elegant. Nah, it's plenty elegant. As for not working in super- and sub-scripts, aside from Metafonting the other sizes yourself, you won't get smaller sizes anyway (cmmib is available only at 10pt by default(!)). If you do choose to MF the other sizes, the files in [anonymous.tex.mf.cm.sauter] will give you everything you need to generate *any* CM font at *any* design size (although it doesn't give optimal results outside the 5-20 point range for most fonts). This will also require fairly major surgery on lfonts.tex (unless you're using lfonts.new, in which case it's a trivial patch) and a regneration of the format file. To get the other sizes, look up \mathpalette in the TeXbook. > Who has a better way to do this? (Note: AMSLaTeX would work except > that it's incompatible with eepic.sty and it runs VERY slowly on my > machine.) Really? How bizarre. I'll have to look at that someday. -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.