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Old 09-04-2014, 06:23 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by Toxaris View Post
Really? I was always taught that Math was the universal language...
You would think, you would think... there is the basic stuff like some countries using ',' as a decimal separator, instead of '.'. I think everyone knows that one.

But then you have more nuanced changes like should you italic or not italic integrals/derivatives... the good ol' "slanted" vs. "upgright" debate:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questi...ntial-operator

Or you might use slightly different symbols for the same thing, or use slightly different notations, or some differences in how Matrices are displayed, and lots of other interesting stuff. I barely scratched the surface on math typography (since I don't really work on complex math works), although I have absorbed some info over the past few months just reading the TeX Stack Exchange.

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