On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:26:42PM +0000, Anthony Stone wrote:
> > > I'm having trouble with LaTeX2html's treatment of "control space",
> > > i.e. backslash followed by space, which TeX and LaTeX use to force a
> > > space after a control sequence. That is, if I say
> > > \newcommand{\foo}{{\sc Foo}}
> > > to get Foo in caps and small caps, I have to write \foo\ in the LaTeX
> > > source in order to make sure it is followed by a space.
> >
> > Dear Anthony,
> >
> > This is a `feature', not of LaTeX2HTML, but of (La)TeX which uses a space
> > to separate tokens. You will find that the space disappears in your .dvi,
> > .ps and .pdf versions as well. You need to do one of:
> >
> > ... \foo\ FOLLOWING TEXT
> > ... \foo~FOLLOWING TEXT
> > ... {\foo} FOLLOWING TEXT
> >
> > [snip]
>
> Thank you. I am already using the first of these constructions (i.e.
> "control space", in the terminology of the TeXbook), as I thought I
> made clear. The problem is that not only does it not work, it seems
> that some of the following material gets gobbled up and lost.
Hmm! ... it seems I misunderstood what you were asking. It is supposed
to work with LaTeX2HTML, and in my experience it always has.
> I am also aware of the workarounds suggested, and I can use one or
> more of them in running text. The problem also arises in math mode,
> where "\ " is used to force a space. Most of the workarounds do not
> work here, though I can achieve what I want, for example by defining
> \spc to mean \mkern6mu and using that instead.
>
> The fact is that "\ " doesn't behave in LaTeX2html as it does in
> LaTeX. I believe that this is a bug. The fact that there are
> workarounds doesn't alter this.
I think you should provide a short example that exhibits the problem.
Maybe it's something else that's the problem.
Regards,
Greg Gamble
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