to tilde or not to tilde

[Bruce Miller]

On 10/6/19 6:35 PM, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
> Yeahhh...journals accept a bunch is BS, serious ones do refuse it. Plos 
> is a serious outlet, but have no experience with TeX.
> 
> You should get a few well typeset texts - specially from the 
> 19th century and check them out.

I guess, then, that The Art of Computer Programming
(eg. Vol I (3rd ed), p. 5 for a start)
is not to be considered "well typeset"?
The author does, however, have some experience with TeX.

bruce

> PN
> 
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2019, 7:29 PM Schneider, Thomas (NIH/NCI) [E] 
> <schneidt at mail.nih.gov <mailto:schneidt at mail.nih.gov>> wrote:
> 
>     Paulo:
> 
>      > NO centered mathematical formula should contain any punctuation at
>      > the end of the line -- even if it is to terminate a sentence.
>      >
>      > Punctuation have a role in typography -- to introduce a pause at
>      > reading -- and with a centered formula that pause already EXIST. The
>      > correct is:
>      >
>      > \begin{equation}
>      > A = \pi r ^2
>      > \end{equation}
>      >
>      > even if it is ending a sentence or a paragraph.
> 
>     I think we will just have to agree to disagree.  I find the comma
>     useful for pausing while the period ends a sentence and otherwise I
>     feel I'm hanging.  In any case, the journal accepts them.
> 
>     Tom
> 
>        Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
>        Senior Investigator
>        National Institutes of Health
>        National Cancer Institute
>        Center for Cancer Research
>        RNA Biology Laboratory
>        Biological Information Theory Group
>        Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
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