After checking The LaTeX Companion, 2nd edition,
I should take back part of what I said in my last message:
> The LaTeX markup $\mathit{hello}$ is insufficient for
> knowing whether or not "hello" is intended to
> be the name of a mathematical symbol.
The LaTeX Companion seems to say that with th
Michal Hoftich writes:
> . . .
> Details:
>
> As was pointed out by David Carlisle, there are spurious `` elements in
> the output of $\mathit{hello }\mathbf{world}$ when converted to mathml:
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";
> display="inline" >>h>e>l>l>o...
>
> it should be
>
>
