<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 8, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Peter Flom wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If you type, e.g.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">\LaTeX\:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(neglecting to put a space after the second \)</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Unless you're writing French, you don't want a space anyway. (Although $\:$ will in fact give you some space.)</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the error message is that a $ has been inserted because it thinks you want one!</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You do. :-)</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cryptic, eh?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>This is actually a LaTeX problem. A more optimal message might say:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"\: is used for extra horizontal space, but only in math mode." </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you try the same thing in Plain TeX, you get the error that \: isn't a defined control sequence, which may be more helpful. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Steve</DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></BODY></HTML>