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[Herbert Schulz]

> On Sep 15, 2018, at 7:40 AM, jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> Le 15/09/2018 à 13:55, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>> PS: I never use \textit since you have to make sure to manually apply the italic correction when necessary. The \emph command does that automatically and nested \emph commands have reasonable behavior.
> 
> Hi Herb,
> 
> \textit does apply italic correction as this example shows
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> 
> \begin{document}
> \textit{f}g
> 
> fg
> \showoutput
> \end{document}
> 
> 
> gives
> 
> ....\hbox(0.0+0.0)x15.0
> ....\OT1/cmr/m/it/10 f
> ....\kern 2.11945
> ....\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 g
> ....\penalty 10000
> 
> Actually
> 
> \DeclareTextFontCommand{\textit}{\itshape}
> 
> and
> 
> \DeclareTextFontCommand{\emph}{\em}
> 
> (similarly for the others)
> 
> and
> 
> \DeclareTextFontCommand:
> macro:#1#2->\DeclareRobustCommand #1[1]{\ifmmode \nfss at text {#2##1}\else \hmode at bgroup \text at command {##1}#2\check at icl ##1\check at icr \expandafter \egroup \fi }
> 
> has \check at icl, \check at icr related to italic correction at start and end
> 
> and at some point they will involve this, where I keep only code comments
> 
> \def \maybe at ic {\futurelet\@let at token\maybe at ic@}
> \def \maybe at ic@ {%
> We first check to see if the current font is positively sloped. (But do not forget
> the message Rainer sent about an upright font with non-zero slope! Or is this an
> urban myth?) It has been suggested that this should test against a small positive
> value, but what?
> ... code lines ...
> }
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jean-François

Howdy,

Sigh... I'm remembering the declaration \it; {\it ....} may need to have the italic correction, \/, depending upon the following letter/punctuation. I don't think that has been changed in LaTeX.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)