Timeline for How does one write the "gothic" letters ($\mathfrak{g}$) in handwriting?
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| Dec 26, 2022 at 15:56 | history | reopened |
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| Dec 26, 2022 at 9:20 | comment | added | BCLC | what's the opposite SE site of tex.stackexchange.com ? haha. but seriously gothic is the most insane font i've seen in lie theory or anywhere. i just do script or write the literal word gothic beside the letter. | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 7:31 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | I needed to learn to write $\mathfrak{m}, \mathfrak{p}, \mathfrak{q}$ for commutative algebra. :) I just add "more corners" (hard to explain in words). | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 6:42 | comment | added | Peter Kropholler | I don't get the closure either. Btw, the underlining convention goes back to the time before computer typesetting when authors needed an efficient way of indicating to typesetters what symbols to use. Another examples, Greek letters were often handwritten and then underlined in red to mean "please note this is a Greek letter". | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 6:36 | comment | added | Najib Idrissi | I don't get this closure. The accepted answer clearly shows that there is an answer that is specific to research-level math. Where else would an underlined letter be understood as a letter in fraktur font? If this is to be closed, then a lot of questions that aren't strictly math questions need to be closed, and I don't think that this would improve MO. How many questions about latex or publishing are on this website? | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 1:50 | comment | added | Callum | I tend to write b, p and q with corners to them but I've never found this reliable for g (which is the letter we really need to distinguish) so I write it in a very distinctive way. For h,m,n, etc. I add a flick to the start of the letter. I don't think I write most other letters any different from usual. This has served me quite well and is certainly enough for personal handwritten notes. | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 1:38 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Dec 26, 2022 at 0:18 | history | closed |
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| Dec 26, 2022 at 0:07 | answer | added | Emily | timeline score: 38 | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 23:58 | comment | added | LSpice | @JoeSilverman, re, if I minded when people disagreed with me about which posts were suitable for MO, then I'd have a hard time of it. Friendly disagreement in the course of establishing the norms is just how things go. 😄 | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 23:18 | comment | added | Joe Silverman | @LSpice I hope you won't mind if I disagree, but I think that this is a great question for MO. If I'm trying to explain advanced mathematics to a class or my own research to another mathematician while writing on a blackboard, this is knowledge that I'd find very useful. In fact, I already knew of and have used a few of the letters in Gerald Edgar's answer (A, B, G, H), there are others that are new to me and may prove useful in the future. | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 22:41 | answer | added | Gerald Edgar | timeline score: 23 | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 21:09 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
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| Dec 25, 2022 at 20:47 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 25, 2022 at 20:38 | answer | added | Noah Snyder | timeline score: 16 | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 20:28 | comment | added | LSpice | I tend to write them in a sort of angular cursive. It's nothing that would impress anyone in terms of accuracy of script, but it stands apart from other letters, which is all that's needed. However, while this is definitely a question that troubles all mathematicians in Lie theory, I do not think it can be said to be about research mathematics proper, and so probably does not belong on MO. | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 20:28 | history | edited | user496902 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 25, 2022 at 20:13 | history | edited | user496902 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Dec 25, 2022 at 20:11 | history | asked | user496902 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |