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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/12/2024 11:36, Bob Tennent wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-size:large">Hi. I need to include the
text "8 b/c" in a TeX document without extra space
around the /. After some experimentation, I got
reasonable output using 8\,b$\!/\!$c; is there a
better approach?</div>
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<p>Using plain XeTeX with unspecified font (and therefore with
CMR10), I see no extra space around the slash — TeX uses its
natural width. If you want tighter kerning, then you could
manually kern, as in 8 b\kern -0,1 em /\kern -0,1 em c.</p>
<p><font face="monospace">8 b/c<br>
\end</font><br>
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<p><font face="monospace">8 b\kern -0,1 em /\kern -0,1 em c<br>
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<p>-- <br>
<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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