[OS X TeX] Getting students to use LaTeX (and apa.cls)

Samuel Lelievre samuel.lelievre.tex at free.fr
Fri Aug 18 12:17:17 EDT 2006


"@ Rocteur CC" <macosx at rocteur.cc> wrote:

>If someone comes up with a way to show that this:
>
>\begin{letter}
>                {Mr. Joe Smith\\
>                2345 Princess St.  \\
>                Edinburgh, EH1 1AA}
>\end{letter}
>
>is an acceptable way of writing, then I think the
>battle will be won!


And what when you go on to say, now let's write

    Mr.\ Joe Smith

because when TeX sees a space after a full stop
it assumes it is the end of a sentence and puts
extra spacing, so when that is not the case one
should use backslash-space instead of space.

SL
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