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Date:         Wed, 24 Nov 93 10:37:52 LCL
From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
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Subject:      Re: \em and italic correction
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%>From:          Werenfried Spit <SPIT@VM.CI.UV.ES>
%>Subject:       \em and italic correction

%>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.
%>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.)
%>

Not so easy as that! Consider, for example,

{\em llll {\em llll}}
{\em llll\/ {\em llll}}
{\em llll \/{\em llll}}

Only the second version gives the right italic correction. Thus
\Emph{text}
would have to skip back over the space and put the italic correction in.

But didn't I read somewhere on this list recently that the macros had been
written, and were included in LaTeX2e?

Mike Piff
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