[OS X TeX] More pronounced margin kerning in TL 2004?

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 9 nov. 04, à 08:23, Jérôme Laurens a écrit :

> Le 8 nov. 04, à 17:01, Bruno Voisin a écrit :
>
>> I usually get margin kerning in LaTeX with:
>>
>>   \input{protcode}
>>   \newcommand{\setupfont}{
>>     \setprotcode\font}
>>   \newcommand{\setupfam}{
>>     \setupfont
>>     {\itshape\setupfont}
>>     {\bfseries\setupfont}
>>     {\itshape\bfseries\setupfont}
>>     {\scshape\setupfont}}
>>   \AtBeginDocument{
>>     \setupfam
>>     {\LARGE\setupfam}
>>     {\large\setupfam}
>>     {\small\setupfam}
>>     {\footnotesize\setupfam}
>>     {\indexsize\setupfam}}
>>   \pdfprotrudechars=2
>
> I don't think my remark will help, it is more a mater of TeX coding.
> I never use a begin group to end a line, I always use a comment after 
> "{%".
> Using a "{" alone to end the line will sometimes add an unexpected 
> white space.

Yes, that's true, a safer option is to always comment out ends of lines 
in macro definitions. Call me picky, but in that particular case I had 
tried, for each line in the above definition, to put and then suppress 
"%" at the end, to see whether the resulting TeX output was altered; 
which doesn't mean, in any case, that I hadn't made errors in the final 
result.

A better strategy, of course, would be to understand exactly how ends 
of lines are taken into account by TeX in each case. Sometimes, at the 
end of a whole day of TeX macro coding and use of the TeXbook, I have 
the impression I have understood the underlying rules for this, but 
then the next time I have some coding to do I realize I have forgotten 
all of that supposedly acquired "wisdom".

Bruno Voisin
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