• Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Yes (actually \ast though?), but unless you’re a maniac in LaTeX latin letters referring to variables in a math environment are cursive (actually a math font I think). Therefore if I am reading a single sentence that may or may not have been made using TeX I tend towards not if variables are in a standard font.