From: Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@lamar.colostate.edu>
Subject: RE: oldstyle figures
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:02:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4271E9CA@webmail.colostate.edu> (raw)
>===== Original Message From Eckhart Guthöhrlein <eckhart.guthoehrlein@uni-
>> should do everything you need: since u're not mixing text in \digits do you
>> really need a global math font reencoding?
>
>In principle yes. For example, $f(x)=3x+7$ should come out with oldstyle
>figures, if these are used by default, shouldn't it?
No, I don't think so (see below)
>Btw, striving for good typography, in which cases should oldstyle
>figures *not* be used?
I am no typography expert, but I think that old style figures are, generally
speaking, inappropriate for math mode. The various heights, etc. make more
work for the brain in complicated mathematics expressions. I can't recall ever
seeing good mathematics/physics done in old style figures. OS numerals are
actually _text_ figures, as Bringhurst points out. In my own academic journal
there is little to no math, but when someone mentions, e.g., the version of a
computer program, I put the version number in upright figures, thought the
rest of the journal is in os figures.
That's my two cents, for what it's worth:-)
Best
Idris
============================
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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2005-04-19 15:02 Idris Samawi Hamid [this message]
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2005-04-19 7:56 ` Eckhart Guthöhrlein
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2005-04-13 13:23 Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2005-04-13 16:49 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-04-18 13:04 ` Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2005-04-18 20:59 ` Ciro Soto
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