I love the fact that our precious λ symbol (for function abstraction) arose due to a series of typographical errors: www-users.mat.umk.pl/~adwid/materia
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A mathematician went to a typesetter that couldn't typeset a circumflex? This story seems a little tall to me
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Interesting. All the badly typeset mathematical books I can remember (besides the typewritten ones with hand-written symbols) looked like they were produced with Word.
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I'm guessing it would have been more of a cost thing - how much you were willing to pay for the intricate work of arranging the equations.
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The docs for the MATH table in OpenType shows this example of how old equations were arranged: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typograp
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Well, it might have been professionally done, but professionals will make shortcuts if their budget demands it.