On 7/2/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> >
> >>>It works perfect except in a single case: \title{\molecule{SF_6}}
> >>
> >>I had seen that, but not yet bothered to fix it. Still, it is
> >>fairly easy to change the macro, try the version below.
>
> Sorry, I thought you were talking about the spacing between F and 6.
;) great. You solved two problems now ;)
> > Didn't work in titles either (or I did something strange) :(
> > But If I write a couple of explicit \lohi-s, it will still be OK.
>
> Good, but it can be fixed, by changing the definition of
> \domolecule to:
>
> \def\domolecule#1%
> {\expandafter\scantokens\expandafter
> {\detokenize{#1\finishchem}}\egroup}
>
> This re-tokenizes the argument (needed because it was grabbed
> by \title already before \molecule had a chance to change the
> catcodes.)
Seems like understanding \expandafter would solve 90% of my problems.
I tried to understand that part in TeX book, but it's so cryptic (too
short) ... I understand the concept, but I'm not able to write the
code for it yet :(
Thanks!
> > I didn't really understand the \iffluor-part of the code ... but don't
> > bother too much.
>
> It is there to trigger a negative italic superscript correction
> (TeX doesn't have a primitive for that :-))
Oh, great!
> > Thanks a lot for the trickery again (I'm still impressed by the
> > \uppercase part),
>
> That is actually a fairly standard trick, not something I invented
But it's nevertheless nice ;) I never saw it (probably because I
didn't read and write enough of TeX sources).
Mojca
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