Funny, while reading about how lowercase L, capital I and numeral 1 all look so similar, I am seeing it in my email font where they're entirely different, and all distinct from the vertical bar. It can be done. Lowercase L, by the way, looks like this: -+ | | | | | \_ What I mean is, that is the actual, true appearance of lowercase L, which has only recently been discovered, apparently. I think in a pinch you can leave off the serif at the top. Here are some modern fixed-width fonts that follow the same conventions for 1, l, I and |, and similar differences between capital O and zero 0. Apple Menlo Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Bera, for use with LaTeX DejaVu Sans Mono I guess the reason there are more fixed-width fonts with these graces is that there are more programmers than mathematicians, and programmers... think of notation as malleable and utilitarian?. Be unambiguous and explicit, I say. That's why I like ln and lg. Also, check out http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/04/23/why-j-for-imaginary-unit/ . --Steve
On 3/3/2015 6:57 PM, Steve Witham wrote:
Funny, while reading about how lowercase L, capital I and numeral 1 all look so similar, ...
i use lucida console ( 1 l I | 0 O log ln lg L) in eclipse and tbird . not sure how it will render at your end. thanks -- Honesty is a very expensive gift. So, don't expect it from cheap people - Warren Buffet http://tayek.com/
Espcially l and 1 look so similar that I never use lowercase L, and hate to encounter it, in math writing. When I really want to use a non-capital L — typically when giving a talk — I like a scriptish L, like this if it survives e-mail: ℓ ("Script small L" on my Mac). --Dan
On Mar 3, 2015, at 6:57 PM, Steve Witham <sw@tiac.net> wrote:
Funny, while reading about how lowercase L, capital I and numeral 1 all look so similar, I am seeing it in my email font where they're entirely different, and all distinct from the vertical bar. It can be done.
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