Dekel Tsur wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 04:53:49PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> >
> > Note that you have to put in explicit multiplication marks in form of '*'
> > or '\cdot'. I haven't found a reliable way to guess the proper places to
> > put them in automatically.
>
> I think that you can assume than $xy$ is x times y.
> At least latex assumes so, as it put a large space between x and y.
> To typeset a variable called 'xy' in latex, you need to use something as
> $\mathit{xy}$.
André, when I insert a negative thinspace \!, I get a
positive in the blue math box. is it intended?
Herbert
