![]() Not only was my work on producing good line and page breaks completely wasted, but the new fonts did not include blackboard bold, and the publisher had not even noticed – the paper appeared with blank spaces where blackboard bold letters should have been. One from my own experience involved a publisher who, between getting my proof corrections and issuing the journal containing the paper, changed all the fonts. ![]() In fact, it doesn’t greatly matter what you do, since when you publish the paper, the journal will put it into their own house style. The general principle may suggest that mathematicians should stick to their current way of working, but is there a case for more variety? On the other hand, the rest of the world rather likes uncontrolled experimentation in the choice of fonts: Garfield points out that the advent of font design programs puts this in everybody’s reach. Now the majority of written mathematics today is typeset in LaTeX, with Computer Modern fonts. People read most efficiently what they are used to. This was partly inspired by reading Simon Garfield’s book Just my type over the holidays.Ībout the only generally accepted principle in typography is ![]() I don’t apologise for revisiting one of my pet topics.
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