Timeline for Why are (most) spaces eliminated in \mathrm formatting? [duplicate]
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| May 19, 2016 at 16:49 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @Peter Things have gotten much better in more recent versions, so much better that I now generally feel safe using italic (vs roman) fonts. But I still haven't been able to uniformly remove the extra initial and terminal spacing since it ends up looking too ugly in some cases. Next time I encounter a really bad one I will let you know. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 16:44 | comment | added | Peter Krautzberger | @Bill I see. Yes I suppose it might be a difference in taste. Maybe you could share a screenshot of what you see as too tight? Just to be sure we see the same thing. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 16:40 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @PeterKrautzberger Everywhere, since the dawn of MJ, on all browsers. But it probably is more a matter ot stylistic opinion than a bug. You can find it in almost all of my posts, e.g. here. Oh for the day that the default spacing is beautiful. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 16:36 | comment | added | Peter Krautzberger | @Bill hm... we don't have any current bug report in that direction and haven't seen such behavior. What browser and OS versions are you seeing this on? Also, an example page would help (unless you're seeing this everywhere / across SE etc). | |
| May 19, 2016 at 16:23 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @PeterKrautzberger There has never been enough spacing between MJ and surrounding text. Almost always I have to surround my MJ expressions with \, to get uniformly agreeable typesetting (and in the old days I had to use \rm because the default italic fonts were even worse offenders). | |
| May 19, 2016 at 15:29 | comment | added | Peter Krautzberger | @Senex could you share an example of the problem you are having with encroaching text? That sounds like a bug we'd want to fix on the MathJax end. | |
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Najib Idrissi Surb JMP Grigory M Shailesh |
Duplicate of MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference | |
| May 19, 2016 at 13:26 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
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| May 19, 2016 at 11:54 | comment | added | Senex Ægypti Parvi | @Najib Idrissi \ Thank you, it looks promising. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 11:50 | history | edited | user642796Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 19, 2016 at 11:50 | comment | added | Senex Ægypti Parvi | @Daniel Fischer \ This question arises because I have been casting about for some way to work around the chronic problem of (succeeding) non-MathJax text backing up into, and encroaching upon (preceding) MathJax formulæ. It seemed to me that using the text facilities would have been a likely approach -- except for the omitted blanks, of course. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 11:42 | comment | added | user642796 Mod | Related question from TeX - LaTeX: Is there a preference of when to use \text and \mathrm? | |
| May 19, 2016 at 11:40 | answer | added | quid | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 19, 2016 at 11:39 | comment | added | Najib Idrissi |
See point 13. tl;dr use \text for text.
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| May 19, 2016 at 11:35 | history | edited | Senex Ægypti Parvi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 19, 2016 at 11:12 | history | edited | Senex Ægypti Parvi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 19, 2016 at 11:04 | comment | added | Daniel Fischer Mod |
Because \mathrm is not for text, it's for setting mathematical stuff in roman font.
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| May 19, 2016 at 11:02 | history | asked | Senex Ægypti Parvi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |