Timeline for Editor asks for π to be written in roman
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| Dec 4, 2020 at 21:42 | comment | added | user128581 | @JeffE and Massimo I happen to know (because I tried it a couple of days ago) that the document class for Springer journals plays nicely out of the box with isomath and mathdesign. | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 17:38 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | @JeffE Interesting, didn't know that. Probably, every journal class would need a specific solution, and the publisher will likely use proprietary fonts anyway. | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 17:12 | comment | added | JeffE |
Apparently upgreek not only changes the style of π, but also changes the typeface from Computer Modern Math Italic to Euler Math. Unless all your math is in Euler, this looks ugly. The documentation for the isomath package has several suggestions that retain consistency, the simplest of which is to use the mathdesign package, which defines the macro \piup with a consistent math+text typeface.
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| Dec 4, 2020 at 7:52 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano |
@ChrisH Yes, in fact I'm quite fussy about having i and e upright in my papers, but less so when it comes to pi, also because certain journal LaTeX classes are not easily compatible with upgreek.
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| Dec 4, 2020 at 7:15 | comment | added | Chris H | Also in many LaTeX fonts, while the roman (upright) and and italic letters are distinct from each other, the upright pi can still look rather italic. Compare the right hand illustration, upright but with a sloping left stroke and a hook on the top, to the last paragraph of the answer in which (sans serif) pi looks like a table. This means it's common not to bother if pi only means what we're used to from school. In physics we're normally good about getting our "e"s upright, but lazy enough to just use \pi even if it should really be upright | |
| Dec 3, 2020 at 21:42 | vote | accept | Antonio Ragagnin | ||
| Dec 3, 2020 at 11:22 | comment | added | user128581 | I'll take this opportunity to flag up a possible source of subtler confusion: in the TeX/LaTeX user community, the word "roman" is used specifically to describe an upright font with serifs; but in the ISO 80000 series standards, the word "roman" is used to describe any upright font, regardless of whether or not it has serifs. | |
| Dec 3, 2020 at 10:48 | history | edited | Massimo Ortolano | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 3, 2020 at 10:34 | history | answered | Massimo Ortolano | CC BY-SA 4.0 |