[pracjourn-forum] For our error collection

[Adam Lindsay]

Steve Peter said this at Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:35:56 -0400:

>On Sep 8, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Peter Flom wrote:
>
>> If you type, e.g.
>> \LaTeX\:
>>
>> (neglecting to put a space after the second \)
>
>Unless you're writing French, you don't want a space anyway.  
>(Although $\:$ will in fact give you some space.)

It's also indicative of another newbie mistake with acronym/logo-style
macros, over-generalizing from example documents. 'LaTeX' is find-and-
replaced with \LaTeX\, and spacing next to punctuation becomes a bit
strange. "LaTeX<space>" should be replaced with '\LaTeX' and '\<space>'.
(The old segmentation-and-misgeneralization-from-impoverished-input
learning problem, eh?)

I say "newbie" because I remember learning my way out of it not too long
ago...
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