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I have read about the difference between italic and slanted fonts in TeX: how do the commands differ, as well as the effect when applied on the fonts; but it seems that there has not been much emphasis on "which to use". For instance, should I use \sl or \it (or LaTeX equivalent textsl and textit) for binomial nomenclature? I guess it does not matter as long as consistent font is used throughout the article, but I do wonder if there were any conventions on this, or if anyone has ever written a similar scientific article and what did they choose.above: slanted; below: italic

Futarimiti
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    For a start: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68931/what-is-the-difference-between-italics-and-slanted-text. Not all fonts have italics and slanted, sometimes \textsl is a synonym for \textit. BTW you should not use neither \sl nor \it, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/516/does-it-matter-if-i-use-textit-or-it-bfseries-or-bf-etc. There might be a convention on binomial nomenclature. You might want to define a wrapper macro to change the behaviour consistently. – CampanIgnis Apr 24 '23 at 12:53
  • @CampanIgnis \it and \sl are actually what TeXBook has taught me (yeah, I'm starting from plain TeX); would not use them in LaTeX of course ;) – Futarimiti Apr 24 '23 at 12:59
  • For me it's very simple: I never use slanted. – egreg Apr 24 '23 at 14:48
  • @egreg If one created it, there is use of it. – Futarimiti Apr 24 '23 at 15:07
  • @Futarimiti There's plenty of useless inventions… :-) – egreg Apr 24 '23 at 16:12

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