Andreschulz
Joined 2 August 2011
Latest comment: 11 years ago by Michael Hardy in topic notation conventions
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notation conventions
editHello.
I did some copy-editing on Petersen's theorem. Notice in particular:
- You shouldn't indiscriminately italicize everything that's in non-TeX mathematical notation. Variables are italicized; digits and parentheses and the like are not; thus one writes: 4(x + 3), not 4(x + 3). The point is to make it consistent with the usage found in TeX:
- A minus sign looks different from a hyphen, and things like "+", "−", "<", etc. should be preceded and followed by a space. Thus
- U-V
- does not look the same as
- U − V.
- (I usually make the spaces non-breakable.)
- \deg is a standard operator name, thus
- So there is no occasion to write \text{deg}. Notice that a space precedes and follows above, put there automatically by the software.
These things are codified in WP:MOSMATH. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:05, 13 February 2013 (UTC)