Regarding font and italics in LaTeX (2 Viewers)

[asianese]

I refer you to this article:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14821/whats-the-proper-way-to-typeset-a-differential-operator

What do you guys think?

I reckon that consistency is the most important thing. So if you'd write a paper you should just be using the same notation throughout.

There's an interesting comment about how Leibniz didn't think of the 'd' as an operator, rather 'dx' together as a differential, an infinitesimal (probably technically wrong but you get my drift). Also with i and e - these aren't 'variables' but should they be in italics? There's a comment about ONLY variables should be italicised.

 

[SpiralFlex]

So you want the D aye? ;-)

 

[asianese]

No, I just want to use my d's appropriately.

 

[GoldyOrNugget]

\mathrm{d}x for me

 

[asianese]

Yeah now that I've seen I prefer it to . I don't know about or vs though.

 

[Trebla]

Hasn't the convention always been to italicise pronumerals to distinguish them from text?

 

[seanieg89]

Personally I italicise all of them.

 

[asianese]

Hasn't the convention always been to italicise pronumerals to distinguish them from text?

If that's the case, then is 'd' a pronumeral?