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Subject: Re: Word 3.0 Bug Query
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Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 11:03:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 11:03:05 1987
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>In article <907@mtung.UUCP> slj@mtung.UUCP (S. Luke Jones) writes:
>>the damned thing STILL doesn't put any space between the last character
>>of italics and the first character of roman text.  Is it just me or

In article <18081@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> munson@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Ethan Munson) writes:
>Text-processing languages like TeX can handle this but I think it's a
>lot to ask of a word processing program.  The best solution uses varied

Not quite.  TeX does not handle kerning across font boundaries for the simple
reason that kerning values are part of an individual font design.  TeX fonts
have an other feature called "italic correction" (all fonts have this, slanted
or not).  Going from italics to roman is {\it italicised\/} text.  The \/ will
add as much space as required to accomodate the slant of the current font.
This is usually far less than a space, and for "straight" fonts no extra space
is added.  Rules like "no correction before punctuation" would be nice, but
some kind of override would then have to be provided

Jean-Francois Lamy                           lamy@ai.toronto.edu (CSNet, UUCP)
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