Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!cje From: cje@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Spacing in math mode in LaTeX Message-ID: Date: 17 May 89 17:49:05 GMT References: <433@pbseps.UUCP> <3847@utastro.UUCP> <1404@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> <2286@csc.anu.oz> <1431@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> Organization: Miskatonic U. Computer Operations & User Services Lines: 22 Cc: cje In article <1431@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) writes: > 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. May I suggest that such knowledge is outside the scope of the LaTeX manual? The manual is supposed to be a guide to the features of the program. As such, it is entirely appropriate for it to stop at telling you how to put space wherever you want. *Where* such spaces should go seems to me to be the province of a manual on "typesetting theory", something the LaTeX manual never claimed to be. Anyone have a good suggestion for a "theory" manual? -- Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin, Chris Jarocha-Ernst UUCP: {ames, cbosgd, harvard, moss, seismo}!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!cje ARPA: JAROCHAERNST@CANCER.RUTGERS.EDU