Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
'Writing R Extensions' tells you that $ needs to be escaped in Rd files
outside \code and similar. So I was surprised to find that ca 80 CRAN
packages have constructions like (from ISwR)
\item{\code{folate}}{
a numeric vector, folate concentration ($\mu$g/l).
}
This does not render sensibly in non-latex conversions, and it is what
we have \eqn{} for.
I suspect last I looked at this was in copy editing that getting the
LaTeX to look right took priority.
It renders as "$\mu$g/l" (for now) which is semi-sensible to my eyes. I
can see that I have \eqn{\mu}g/l in other places, but that comes out as
"mug/l" which looks like an inverted measure for coffee cups. I probably
gave up deciding a good incantation for "microgram per liter" in text
mode. Possibly \eqn{\mu}{u} is the best on can do.
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