On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 04:53:49PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Note that you have to put in explicit multiplication marks in form of '*' > or '\cdot'. I haven't found a reliable way to guess the proper places to > put them in automatically.
I think that you can assume than $xy$ is x times y.
At least latex assumes so, as it put a large space between x and y.
To typeset a variable called 'xy' in latex, you need to use something as
$\mathit{xy}$.
