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In-Reply-To:  Message of 24 Nov 1993 10:33:51 +0000 from
              <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
Date:         Wed, 24 Nov 93 12:41:06 EST
From: Werenfried Spit <SPIT@VM.CI.UV.ES>
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Subject:      Re: \em and italic correction
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On 24 Nov 1993 10:33:51 +0000 <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK> said:
>|> 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...).
>

Oops, big oversight on my part. I was thinking about testing
only on the fonts that are used, and forgot that the necessety
of an italic correction also depend on the precise tokens.

So, the question is even more interesting than I thought; and
even more pressing to resolve since the writer has even more
to think about.

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