Re: eqn formatting issues with grops and gropdf

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2022-07-27T21:48:52+0000, DJ Chase wrote:
> On Wed Jul 27, 2022 at 4:54 PM EDT, Robert Goulding wrote:
> > That seems to work! The only downside (if it is one), is that Greek
> > in mathematical expressions is now also unslanted (see attached).
> > That's no big deal for me, as I almost never have Greek text and
> > mathematics in the same document (and I prefer upright Greek in math
> > anyway) -- but could someone who does write mathematical papers in
> > Greek construe that to be a bug, or at least undocumented behavior?
> 
> That’s good — ISO 80000-2:2009 specifies that variables should be in
> italics, while constants and operators should be in roman. Since Greek
> letters are frequently constants (π) or operators (Σ) it makes sense to
> default to roman and specify italics when needed.

We now have two new Savannah tickets open about this.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64231
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64232

Regards,
Branden

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