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[โ€“] sga@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

well i have learnt something, thanks. i usually just unitalicise names (so here, that would be moon and me, but not N, kg, m). I have seen units italicised a lot (professor notes, even papers), so i assumed it was accepted. i have seen normal ones too, and bold also (that is usually for vector quantities i think).

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yup. The reason I unitalicise names is to stop the wide kerning. It's moon and me, not ๐‘šโ€Š๐‘œโ€Š๐‘œโ€Š๐‘› and ๐‘šโ€Š๐‘’.

In texts I've seen, bold variables are matrices.