Hi,
I am currently in the process of polishing the typesetting of my
thesis. One of the things I would like to achieve is to reduce the
spacing between "++" in the words C++ and AspectC++, as this looks
somewhat "strange" with the font I am using.
This question is somewhat related to the thread
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg66864.html
where the original poster asked for a way to reduce the space between
the two slashes in hyperlinks. However, the original solution does not
work in my case, as C++ and AspectC++ are not typeset by any kind of
(La)TeX command, but are just ordinary words. Replacing all
occurrences with some ERT box is not an option, as this would cause
too much hassle and would not work in external material, such as
bibliographic entries. I am looking for a more elegant solution.
I think that I remember to have read about so-called catcodes (or
whatever?) in TeX, which apparently make it possible to declare
certain characters as "active" so that further processing is possible
whenever the TeX scanner reads such character. I wonder if it is
possible this way to declare in the preamble that
"C" followed by "+", followed by "+"
is "active" and should be inherently substituted with something like
"\mbox{C+\hspace{-.5ex}+}}"
Any TeX gurus on this list who might help me?
Thanks!
Daniel
