At 11:41 on 10 February, Greg Gamble wrote: > 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. 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. -- Anthony Stone www-stone.ch.cam.ac.uk University Chemical Laboratory, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lensfield Road, Phone: +44 1223 336375 Cambridge CB2 1EW Fax: +44 1223 336362 _______________________________________________ latex2html mailing list latex2html@tug.org http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html