[texhax] superscripts and spacing problem

[Joey Coyle]

I have your example working, and it's works great!!!

I was wondering how this could work if things were considered  
boxes... but this explanation helps...  I understand what you are  
doing now, just need to walk through the commands in my Latex  
Companion to follow exactly

thanks!
joey



On Nov 29, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote:

> OK, hope you get there : all that I am doing is to
> set AV in one box (unkerned), AV in a second box (kerned),
> and measuring the difference of the width of the two
> boxes.  This gives me a measure of how much closer the
> font designer felt that a V could be placed to an A than
> would be the case if the A were a perfect rectangle.
> I then use this as a correction factor to negatively
> kern before typesetting the superscript 7.  In practice,
> this amount is insuffient, and a better algorithm
> pre-scales it by 2, as in :
>
>         \def \domsev #1%
>             {\setbox 0 = \hbox {#1{}V}%
>              \setbox 2 = \hbox {#1V}
>              \dimen 0 = \wd 0
>              \advance \dimen 0 by -\wd 2
>              \dimen 0 = 0 pt %%% pretend we did none of the above
>              $\hbox {#1}\kern -\dimen 0 ^7$
>             }
>
>         \def \DomSev #1%
>             {\setbox 0 = \hbox {#1{}V}%
>              \setbox 2 = \hbox {#1V}
>              \dimen 0 = \wd 0
>              \advance \dimen 0 by -\wd 2
>              $\hbox {#1}\kern -2\dimen 0 ^7$
>             }
>
>         \domsev {C}
>         \domsev {A}
>
>         \DomSev {C}
>         \DomSev {A}
>
>         \end
>
> ** Phil.
> --------
>
>
> Joey Coyle wrote:
>
>> Thanks Philip,
>> This is is taking the next step for me in my Latex learning   
>> curve...   Your examples contain commands I have never used, so  
>> it's  going to take a little studying on my part to truly  
>> understand  them...    I'll be back... ;-}
>> thanks again,
>> joey
>
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