X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["589" "Wed" "24" "November" "93" "17:38:43" "+0100" "Frank Mittelbach" "MITTELBACH@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE" nil "20" "Re: \\em and italic correction" "^Date:" nil nil "11"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA11713; Wed, 24 Nov 93 17:43:44 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA27138; Wed, 24 Nov 93 17:43:41 +0100 Message-Id: <9311241643.AA27138@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2408; Wed, 24 Nov 93 17:41:59 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 5096; Wed, 24 Nov 93 17:41:37 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 5094; Wed, 24 Nov 93 17:41:34 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 17:38:43 +0100 From: Frank Mittelbach Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: Re: \em and italic correction Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1185 To give you some good news (perhaps :-) all \text.. comannds as well as \emph in LaTeX2e will do proper italic correction on both sides of the command and will in addition have a customisable list of chars (not a fixed set). However, it is not completely trivial to produce this result and a blind use of \futurelet is a timebomb as you will find out after a while. consider a part of fancyheadings.sty that says ....\leftmark\fi ... now if you get \emph{foo} into that mark it will future let to \fi with interesting consequences ... anyway wait and see it is coming cheers Frank