Your stated convention is correct, but Jn and Hn are not considered "multi-character function names," but rather single-character function names with a subscript, and as such they should be typeset in italic.
Bruce Pourciau Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 01:16:04PM +0200, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > > Hello, list, > > > > Does anybody know, what is the convention for putting special functions such > > as Bessel and Hankel functions in math formulas. Are they supposed to be > > italicized like variables, or in math-text font, like sin, cos, tan, etc. Cos > > there is no macro for Jn and Hn in the math palette. > > My convention says "all multi-char function names are upright". > > Andre'
