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From: Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK
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Subject:      Re: \em and italic correction
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Werenfried Spit writes:
|> [...]
|> The writer does have to include possible italic corrections by
|> hand. So, in the end, she does have to remember which font
|> currently is in use and which font will be use to emphasise
|> in order to know if and where an italic correction should be
|> inserted. Exit logical formatting.

Indeed so.

|> Would it be feasible to do something about this? (I mean, it
|> would be very easy if \em was a command with an argument, like
|> \em{emphasized text}, but since its structure is different
|> I do not really know myself how difficult or expensive it would
|> be to give \em  the power to include an italic correction at
|> the end. An italic correction at its begin is easy, of course.)

It's not as easy as all that, since you don't want to correct if the
following token is a full stop or comma (or possibly others...).

I have a style to achieve this, which came via some network source from
Dan Bernstein long ago.  I've (largely) `productised' it, but it doesn't
(I'm amused to note) do italic correction at the beginning if it's
necessary.

In today's world it doesn't look terribly good, but I've put it on
ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/ital.sty for anyone who'ld like a prod.

R
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