[PRL] mathit
Riccardo Pucella
riccardo at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Apr 12 08:38:54 EDT 2006
On 8:24 04/12/06 Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Apr 12, Dave Herman wrote:
> > Is \mathit{E} equivalent to \mbox{\textit{E}}?
>
> Yes -- if you're using Emacs with AucTex, it has commands for changing
> the font -- C-c C-f C-i changes to italics by inserting textit or
> mathit depending on the context.
Yes, but the results (whether or not they *look* the same) also depends
on which fonts Dave chose. Thus, if you use times fonts for text and
modern for math, then \mathit will use modern-italics and
\mbox{\textit{...}} will use times-italics, no?
Cheers,
R
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