# [OS X TeX] Ugly character spacing

Richard Seguin riseguin at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 3 05:25:16 CEST 2004

When I compile the following code with pdflatex, there is only a
miniscule amount of space between the "if" and the $\scr{Y}$, they
appear to almost run together, and it looks terrible. I have often
encountered this kind of problem within and without theorem
environments, and with or without the fourier package. It usually
involves a transition between regular text and a $...$ string. I can
fix this sort of problem by inserting a \; but I feel like I'm putting
a band aid on the problem when I shouldn't have to. Questions:

(1) Has anyone else been having this problem?
(2) Is this a known problem that might be fixed?
(3) Will every distribution produce the exact same results so that I
don't have to worry about inserting the \; and producing too much space
between the "if" and the \scr{Y} when someone else compiles it?

Richard Séguin

\documentclass[11pt,psamsfonts,oneside]{amsart}
\usepackage{fourier}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{eucal}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\usepackage[all]{xy}
\usepackage{bm}

\input protcode.tex

.....

\begin{proposition}\label{P:DecompositionSpacesIsomorphicToSubspaces}
....
Furthermore, if $\scr{Y} \in \fra{L}$ and $(\scr{Y}, T) \cong (\scr{X}, T)$, then
....
\end{proposition}

....
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