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Subject: Spacing in math mode in LaTeX
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Date: 6 May 89 14:46:50 GMT
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In article <1404@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu>, charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) writes:
> In article <3847@utastro.UUCP> hgcjr@utastro.UUCP (Harold G. Corwin Jr.) 
> writes:
>  
>> But easy?  TeX?  No way.  Made any easier using the TeXbook?  Only if 
>> your job is typesetting and you're being paid to wade through a jungle 
>> of lions and dangerous curves.  End of flame.
>  
> Unless you write mathematics.  Then chapters 16--19 of the {\TeX}book
> are {\it must\/} reading.
>  
> The \LaTeX\ manual is simply insufficient.  It doesn't even cover putting 
> thin spaces in such simple formulas as
> \[ {\cal F} = \{\, f_\theta : \theta \in \Theta \,\} \]
> and
> \[ \int f \, d\mu \]
> or the double quad space in
> \[ \theta_i \le \theta_{i+1}, \qquad i = 1, \ldots, n-1. \]
>  
> No reason why it should of course.
>  

(meekly) Excuse me, on page 52 of LLs LaTeX manaul is a section entitled
3.3.7 Spacing in Math mode........

--Markus Buchhorn
Mt Stromlo Observatory, Canberra A.C.T., Australia
MARKUS@MSO.ANU.OZ, MYB100@CSC.ANU.OZ