Well, it’s not appropriate typesseting. Unlike unknowns and constants (𝑥, 𝑐), units need to be manually unitalicized. In DOCX, this also prevents wide kerning (which is OK for several multiplied constants/unknowns but not multi-letter units). I only use serif italics for liter (𝑙), and only outside equations (it’s not SI base anyway), because I think a simple “l” can be confused with “I” or “1” while the alternatives (L, ℓ) look terrible in typesetting.
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).
Well, it’s not appropriate typesseting. Unlike unknowns and constants (𝑥, 𝑐), units need to be manually unitalicized. In DOCX, this also prevents wide kerning (which is OK for several multiplied constants/unknowns but not multi-letter units). I only use serif italics for liter (𝑙), and only outside equations (it’s not SI base anyway), because I think a simple “l” can be confused with “I” or “1” while the alternatives (L, ℓ) look terrible in typesetting.
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).
Yup. The reason I unitalicise names is to stop the wide kerning. It’s moon and me, not 𝑚 𝑜 𝑜 𝑛 and 𝑚 𝑒.
In texts I’ve seen, bold variables are matrices.