5 Mar
2015
5 Mar
'15
7:57 p.m.
... while in many ways I love Don Knuth, he was a total idiot when he designed his fonts making u and v look too similar, ...
I don't understand. I have attached a pdf (and the underlying low-TeXnique manuscript) with the letters u and v in roman, text italic, and math italic. They don't look any more alike to me in Computer Modern fonts than in any others.
"\ell" in LaTeX to try to compensate for his own idiocy, but it was too little too late.
I don't understand this either. Would you have made a cursive letter l the letter l in math italic? Whit