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From: daw@houxs.UUCP (Dave Wolverton)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Constant-width macros for MM
Message-ID: <510@houxs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 13:45:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: houxs.510
Posted: Mon Aug 31 13:45:54 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 06:52:16 EDT
References: <507@houxs.UUCP> <59900001@hplabsb.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T End User Organization, Holmdel, NJ
Lines: 17
Summary: here's a workaround

In article <59900001@hplabsb.UUCP>, krishnan@hplabsb.UUCP (N K Krishnan) writes:
> In a sequence of the form
> 
> 	... blah \f(CWblah\fP ....
> 
> the space between the blah's is out of proportion to the spaces between
> the other words on the same line.

Someone (Bill Carpenter, I think) pointed out that the space is being set
in the trailing font (CW), and that a space from CW font doesn't look "right"
in normal text.  The following will force the space to be set in the first
font:
	... blah \&\f(CWblah\fP ...

Dave Wolverton
AT&T
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