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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Donald Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Spacing in math mode in LaTeX
Message-ID: <1292@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 17 May 89 00:26:22 GMT
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In article <1431@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) writes:
>It is true though, that anyone who has any serious math to typeset had
>better read the TeXbook (or the AMS TeX manual I suppose).  How about the
>other two examples?  And there are dozens of others.  The point is
>that it's not enough to know that you can put some space wherever you want,
>you need to know where you should put space and exactly how much.

The cases where one needs to insert extra spacing are rare enough that one
can avoid not knowing how or where to use things like \, etc. This is why
in my LaTeX courses, I don't even touch on spacing other than for special
cases like where one uses \qquad. Extra spacing should be added by the editor
of the final copy rather than the author. I read (I think in TeXline) that
some journals find it more economical to re-key articles than try and deal
with author-supplied manuscripts which are rife with all sorts of spurious
fine-tuning!

-dh