Re: First report on Conm

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.

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