you can do this with conditionals in latex. i don't know the conditionals offhand, but you can test which font is being used to typeset the current hbox, and use the appropriate kerns.
i know... i know... easier said than done. i think david soloman's "the advanced texbook" would have the required conditionals. that book has everything... pete begin Henry House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 06:00:51PM -0700, Shawn P. Neugebauer wrote: > [...] > > My current opinion (having blown a bit of time putting together > > this note) is to leave well enough alone. In other words, don't > > worry about the italic issue--even latex doesn't bother with that > > (see Test 7). Furthermore, I bet most of the time you should just > > spell such fractions out. But, if you really want or need a slanted > > fraction, I think the myslantfrac macro below looks just fine. > > The macro is to be used for typesetting a cookbook; comparable usage suggests > that fractions should be not be written out in words but should change to > italics in italic text. (Keeping maths in roman in italic blocks is of course > the correct usage in the mathematical papers for which LaTeX was designed.) > > Thanks for the suggestions! -- GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
