[texhax] Cases for italic correction

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Fri Jul 20 14:51:29 CEST 2012


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:41:59AM -0400, Michael Barr wrote:
> The following illustrated another use for italic correction:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> 
> \begin{document}
> $d^3=d\/^3=d{}^3$
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> I am sorry, but you have really have to see the output to appreciate
> the difference.

I see no difference at all between the three. The fact is, TeX applies
italic correction before placing superscripts so I fail to see how
applying it manually would have made any difference.

Regards,
 Khaled


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