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Package: texlive-latex-extra
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Greetings.
Thank you for the earlier suggestions on greek letters in the section headings
of hyperref related metadata (left frame of okular).
In the past, I always took the trivial way out of producing the leading superscripting
for isotopes, such as $\ ^{228}Th$.
I never seen an issue with this, until I started columns in a table
with this sort of input. The formatting of the table had the excess space
in left formatted columns. Hence, I decided to look into using the
isotope package (which has very little documentation).
Being cautious, I was changing things in a peculiar way.
Old
... $\ ^{228}Th$
was responsible for the aftershave effect with Axe products.
New
... $\isotope[228]{Th}%$\ ^{228}Th$
was responsible for the aftershave effect with Axe products.
The old output (rendered as ASCII, and ignoring superscripting) would be:
... 228Th was responsible for the aftershave effect with Axe products.
The output (with my commenting out the old mathmode stuff) is
... 228Thwas responsible for the aftershave effect with Axe products.
The space between "Ra" and "was" is eaten up if I put the commented section
immediately after the replacement text.
It is entirely possible that this is the way comments work in LaTeX, I've
never run into this before. Commenting out code in Perl I've done a lot.
But, perhaps a note about the isotope package for LaTeX could mention
this?
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Hi Gordon,
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 17:18 -0600, Gordon Haverland wrote:
> Being cautious, I was changing things in a peculiar way.
>
> Old
> ... $\ ^{228}Th$
> was responsible for the aftershave effect with Axe products.
> New
> ... $\isotope[228]{Th}%$\ ^{228}Th$
> was responsible for the aftershave effect with Axe products.
>
> The old output (rendered as ASCII, and ignoring superscripting) would be:
> ... 228Th was responsible for the aftershave effect with Axe products.
>
> The output (with my commenting out the old mathmode stuff) is
> ... 228Thwas responsible for the aftershave effect with Axe products.
>
> The space between "Ra" and "was" is eaten up if I put the commented section
> immediately after the replacement text.
>
> It is entirely possible that this is the way comments work in LaTeX, I've
> never run into this before. Commenting out code in Perl I've done a lot.
This is indeed the default behviour for comments. Consider for example
this simeple document:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
There%
are%
not%
many%
spaces%
in%
this%
paragraph.
\end{document}
You will see that even spaces at the beginning of the line are
discarded. So you will either need a space *after* your text or a
newline that is not masked by a comment.
cheerio
ralf
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