On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 03:50:51PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > No, it is for all the @-commands, and, in my opinion, the sentence is > > clear as is. But do not hesitate to propose changes in the manual if > > you think it can be ameliorated. > > What I thought was that plain TeX was rendered in a better way, but > the Texinfo commands (thoses that makes sense in math expressions) > were still keeping their semantics but could have some rendering > issues (for instance, @strong and @sub would be ambiguous for TeX). > > The manual could say > > In general, the contents of @math or @displaymath should be plain > TeX only, with no interspersed Texinfo commands, which may not be > supported at all.
Gavin, I let you do changes in the manual if you see fit. > > I think that this is ok in printed output and in Info. In HTML I don't > > know, but I do not think that it is important. We try to avoid ligatures > > in math mode. > > This is not ligatures, but kerning. The lack of kerning in any kind > of slanted text introduces ugly and disturbing spaces. But there are > normally no issues with HTML rendering, where kerning is always used > in practice. I was probably unclear, I just wanted to add an information on ligatures, it was not related to kerning (I do not actually really know what kerning is...). -- Pat
