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Re:Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007) by The_suffocated on Saturday February 08, 2025 @08:01PM (#42987578)
Personally I don't find greek letters problematic. In contrast, I was traumatised by upper-case Fraktur font in older abstract algebra texts.
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Re:Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007) by jks on Sunday February 09, 2025 @01:19AM (#42988876)
Fraktur is still used in model theory, but I don't believe that is easier to write than A' or  or something like that.

Set theory has aleph א and beth ℶ which are refreshingly not Greek but Hebrew letters.

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Re:Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007) by jks on Sunday February 09, 2025 @04:11AM (#42989472)
Heh, U+1D504 MATHEMATICAL FRAKTUR CAPITAL A seems to have been filtered out of my comment, perhaps because it's outside the BMP.
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