On Sun, 28 May 2006, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> Speaking about personal preferences: I *very much* prefer \varkappa over
> \kappa, because the sign produced by \kappa is not kappa at all. I suppose
> this was me who put this \varkappa to mactex.lisp. OK, I'll have to patch my
> personal copy :-(
Really? I'd never seen \varkappa used before; all the texts I've seen
(including ones written in Greek) always use \kappa. Is it more common in
countries that use the Cyrillic alphabet?
-matt