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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 \usepackage{slashed}
 \usepackage{txfonts}
 \usepackage{amsfonts}
-\usepackage{nath}
+\usepackage{mdwlist}
 %\usepackage{accents}
 
 \renewcommand{\ge}{\geqslant}
@@ -45,14 +45,21 @@
 
 \section{Notation}
 
-$ C \hasparents \set X $ The parents of commit $C$ are exactly the set
+\begin{basedescript}{
+\desclabelwidth{5em}
+\desclabelstyle{\nextlinelabel}
+}
+\item[ $ C \hasparents \set X $ ]
+The parents of commit $C$ are exactly the set
 $\set X$.
 
-$ C \ge D $ $C$ is a descendant of $D$ in the git commit
+\item[ $ C \ge D $ ]
+$C$ is a descendant of $D$ in the git commit
 graph.  This is a partial order, namely the transitive closure of 
 $ D \in \set X $ where $ C \hasparents \set X $.
 
-$ C \has D $ Informally, the tree at commit $C$ contains the change
+\item[ $ C \has D $ ]
+Informally, the tree at commit $C$ contains the change
 made in commit $D$.  Does not take account of deliberate reversions by
 the user or in non-Topbloke-controlled branches; these are considered
 normal, forward, commits.  For merges and Topbloke-generated
@@ -60,11 +67,20 @@ anticommits, the ``change made'' is only to be thought of as any
 conflict resolution.  This is not a partial order because it is not
 transitive.
 
+\item[ $ \p, \py, \pn $ ]
+A patch $\p$ consists of two sets of commits $\pn$ and $\py$, which
+are respectively the base and tip git branches.  $\p$ may be used
+where the context requires a set, in which case the statement
+is to be taken as applying to both $\py$ and $\pn$
+All these sets are distinct.
+
+\end{basedescript}
+
 \section{Invariants}
 
-No replay: $ C \has D \implies C \ge D $
+No replay: \[ C \has D \implies C \ge D \]
 
-Unique base: $ \mathop{\forall}\limits_{C \in \py} \pends{C}{\pn} = \{ B \} $
+Unique base: \[ \mathop{\forall}_{C \in \py} \pends{C}{\pn} = \{ B \} \]
 
 \section{Test more symbols}