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Re: radical thoughts

At 05:34 PM 98/01/20 +0100, you wrote:

>> I know it used by physicists for elementary particles, but I haven't 
>> seen it in math. Also, the bold upright lower case Greek is used for 
>> vectors (I suppose in anology with math italic becoming upright bold 
>> when we turn a symbol into one denoting a vector).  But regular weight 
>> upright lower case Greek?

>I thought we were doing something that was supposed to be usable for
>physicists as well as for mathematicians.  Besides there are certain
>differences in the typographic traditions in various coutries.

Physisicts use the upright Greek letters when naming particles, not in math.

Regards, Berthold.
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