Timeline for Does the usage of mathematical symbols work differently in books than in theses?
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| May 17, 2019 at 12:34 | comment | added | user2768 | @MazenDraw Personally, I find any label in a subscript annoying. | |
| May 17, 2019 at 11:35 | comment | added | Mazen Draw | @user2768 Well, in theory they could be integers but I am using x,y,z notation for 3D second order tensors. I wanted to use something like this for example \tau_{\mathrm{r},xx}. Would this also be confusing? | |
| May 17, 2019 at 9:02 | comment | added | user2768 | @MazenDraw Do you mean something like τ_{v,i} and τ_{r,j}, where i and j are integers? (If so, don't, it becomes really hard to read.) | |
| May 17, 2019 at 6:37 | comment | added | Vladimir F Героям слава | @dmckee The subscripts shall be upright if they are abbreviations of a word (like here). If they are just another variables, they should keep their own formatting. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 23:11 | vote | accept | Mazen Draw | ||
| May 16, 2019 at 23:11 | comment | added | Mazen Draw | @SolarMike I have decided to use a comma between the subscript and indices. I will discuss this with my mentor as most of you suggested. Thank you all for your insight and for taking the time to answer quesions that might be trivial to you! | |
| May 16, 2019 at 22:56 | comment | added | Anyon | @MazenDraw You have many other possibilities. You could, for example, keep the tensor component indices as subscripts and put v/r as a superscript, use another typesetting trick like primes or tildes to tell different taus apart, or another letter altogether. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 22:17 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | @dmckee It's an ISO standard that can be found also in the SI brochure and the IUPAC Green Book. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 20:39 | comment | added | Solar Mike | @MazenDraw You are responsible for your writing, clarity and notation. Check with your advisor and your institutions standards. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 20:36 | comment | added | Mazen Draw | I tried your suggestion and since I am writing about these tensors' components, it seemed not eloquent having so many subscripts/indices with different meanings. | |
| S May 16, 2019 at 18:48 | history | suggested | SamYonnou | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2019 at 18:38 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @Solar That convention comes from a standards document. I think. But I can't recall which one just now, so I could be fooling myself. In any case, I don't usually both to follow it. Too much trouble and as I say, readers don't notice. But I'd never attempt serious mathematical typesetting in Word, even though the tooling has improved a bit. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 18:32 | comment | added | Solar Mike | @dmckee are you assuming Latex or Word? All I wanted was to show an example. It may be better to make sure subscripts follow the standards set by the particular institution where the thesis is being submitted. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 18:29 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten |
In principle labeling subscripts are typeset in an upright font (\mathrm or \text if you're a LeTeX user) and indexes in italics. But few readers actually pay enough attention for that to be reliable.
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| May 16, 2019 at 17:41 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| May 16, 2019 at 17:28 | comment | added | Solar Mike | @user2768 So seems to work fine for things like Cp and Cv... And if you have properly defined it in the nomenclature then there should be no confusion - perhaps for those who don't read it properly... | |
| May 16, 2019 at 17:26 | comment | added | user2768 | The subscript might be confused as an index | |
| May 16, 2019 at 14:40 | history | answered | Solar Mike | CC BY-SA 4.0 |