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Re: inputenc text (and/or math)

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 At 17:16 -0500 2001/02/08, William F. Hammond wrote: >Whether or not text is in math mode is an important authoring issue >that requires explicit author indication. > >For example: > >\begin{quote} >Everyone knows that the 2 most important numbers are $0$ and $1$\@[log in to unmask] >\end{quote} Why not:   There are odd and even numbers and the oddest of them all is $2$. I tend to think that there in a text mode for natural language alone, there should be no numbers allowed, only letters and punctuation marks. Thus your AW quote should be   Everyone knows that the $2$ most important numbers are $0$ and $1$. or, as is recommended in language:   Everyone knows that the two most important numbers are $0$ and $1$. (By induction, the natural numbers are the most important numbers, as in order to be able to express the sentence   Everyone knows that the two most important numbers are $0$ and $1$. everybody realizes that two is the most important number next to zero and one. Whence:   Everyone knows that the three most important numbers are $0$, $1$, and $2$. Thus, via induction, this principle of importance generates the natural numbers 0, 1, 2, ... *) ) Also, for the \gamma, one might even need language modes   \begin{Greek}...\end{Greek}   \begin{English}...\end{English} -- The Greek environment would admit \gamma, or typeset "g" as \gamma, but the English environment would not admit \gamma. >...I assume that this discussion, which began with your questions >about changing over to the T1 fontenc, is about LaTeX3 and not about >the next 2E (unless the next 2E is to be 3). I think so to: Isn't it time to forget about 2e, and starting with 3? Changing 2e now will only annoy people that want a stable version. *) So called "mathematical joke".   Hans Aberg