Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:36:17AM -0500, John Hunter wrote:
>>  * There is a lot of space between the \prod symbol and the rest of
>> the expression and between the \mathcal{R} and the \prod symbol --
>> what controls this?  It looks like it is being affected by the wide
>> \prod subscript {i=\alpha_{i+1}} -- is this correct and is this how
>> TeX handles it?
>
> AFAIK yes. I correct this with a lot of "\!\!". This is a hack, but it
> gives good results.

Yes, this is how TeX does it. Another hack is to cause the subscript box
to have zero width, which in principle can be done with \makebox[0pt]
(but Google for "mathclap" to find how to make it actually work).

-- 
Jouni K. Seppänen
http://www.iki.fi/jks


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