BRONWEN@SBCCVM.BITNET (Bronwen Heuer) (03/20/91)
I have a user who is very dissatisfied with the space allowed around equal signs, plus signs and some other places in LaTeX. She has gone in manually and added thickspace and medium space in many locations but would like a more global solution. Any suggestions? bronwen heuer ECC-117 phone(516)632-8054 user services/computing srv, state university of ny bronwen@sbccvm stony brook, ny 11794-2640 bronwen@ccvm.sunysb.edu
eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) (03/20/91)
BRONWEN@SBCCVM.BITNET (Bronwen Heuer) writes: >I have a user who is very dissatisfied with the space allowed >around equal signs, plus signs and some other places in LaTeX. Is your user anywhere near typographically qualified? What TeX does is extremely close to what high quality math typesetting in math journals looks like. Maybe your user is conditioned by the apalling spacing of some dtp product used earlier? >She has gone in manually and added thickspace and medium space >in many locations but would like a more global solution. In fact, I can bring up arguments why the TeX default spacing is somewhat too large. >Any suggestions? Yes. Look up the parameters \thickmuskip, \medmuskip, and \thinmuskip in the plain format, and change their values. The thing that is hard-wired about math spacing is the decision process where to insert wht sort of space. See for this the table on page 170. Of Knuth's book thatis. LaTeX users must have this book, because Lamports book is only about the extensions contained in LaTeX. Victor.