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Typst authors being germans, one can hardly accuse them in the "everyone uses English" attitude. Typst `dif` math operator (as in dx/dt) produces upright 'd', quite unexpected to ones used to slanted 'd' tradition.


> Typst authors being germans, one can hardly accuse them in the "everyone uses English" attitude.

On the other hand, one can easily understand why, bein German, they assume Figure, Equation, etc. will always be capitalized.

> Typst `dif` math operator (as in dx/dt) produces upright 'd', quite unexpected to ones used to slanted 'd' tradition.

I would indeed expect an upright 'd'. It's an operator, not a variable. I don't recognize the tradition you're mentioning.


> I would indeed expect an upright 'd'. It's an operator, not a variable. I don't recognize the tradition you're mentioning.

That's strange. I've never seen a math article in English with upright 'd' differential, only have seen it in German and Spanich articles. It's also math italic in TeX (you can check Knuth's TeXbook).




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