On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:20 PM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't know quite where you heard it, because it's not what I wrote, > especially the part about Bourbaki. However, if a leading > mathematician like Serre expresses an opinion about something, I think > it's worth paying attention. For what it's worth, Knuth also seems to > dislike the use of blackboard bold fonts in printed material, and he's > probably thought more about technical typesetting than all of us put > together. I think it's dangerous to dismiss his view without further > consideration.
Not sure who is that Knuth you mention, but a bit of googling reveals that he seems to be picky about fonts (e.g. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cm.html). Seriously, I can't find a quote of him about the use of blackboard bold, but I think I read something about it (maybe in his math writing class notes?) > People became so used to seeing it in lectures and so on that they > created computer fonts to replicate it. I still remember using these in early 90s (before amsfonts, I guess): \def\C{I\!\!\!\!\!\:C} \def\R{I\!\!R} \def\Z{Z\!\!\!Z} > By the way, widespread use is not a convincing argument; many people > use Z_p to represent the integers mod p, and I will *not* agree that > this is acceptable usage. I'm starting to think this is a lost one... Gonzalo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
