Re: First report on Conm

Quoting Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:
> >
> >
> >>En réponse à Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:
> >>
> >>
> >>>In France, in handwriting vectors are nearly always marked with an
> >>
> >>arrow
> >>
> >>>above,
> >>>and tensors with two (or three, or four, depending on the number of
> >>>parameters)
> >>>macrons. The people I've seen underlining vectors (a mechanics
> >>>convention too
> >>>in France) underline tensors twice or more. I find it rather good
> >>>because it
> >>>allows to see immediately how many "dimensions" the tensor has.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Oh, and note that in my handwriting, f''' and f^III are extremely
> >>different!
> >>My ' are bended and look like ending quotes, while my I are vertical
> and
> >>always
> >>serifed.
> >
> >
> > Ah, sorry, I didn't see this 'fore I sent my reply to your first
> post.
> >
> > My ' are more or less vertical*, and while I usually serify my Roman
> numerals,
> > the superscript ones we're talking about are so small that serifs
> would
> > make 'em illegible.
>
> I always turn the serifs in roman numerals into full-fledged overline
> and underline, so III is written with three vertical strokes and two
> horizontal strokes. It's usually legible at small sizes, and easy to
> recognize as numerals.
I usually do that too (so you can tell the Roman numeral X apart from the
Latin letter X, usw), but when superscript they get oh-so-tiny, which combined
with the fact that tend to use pretty board pencils (.7mm) means that serifs
are unhelpful.

                                                          Amdreas