[PRL] mathit
Eli Barzilay
eli at barzilay.org
Wed Apr 12 09:51:03 EDT 2006
On Apr 12, Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, Dave is right; \mathit doesn't quite do the right thing
> for hyphens, as you can see from the following LaTeX file:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> \textit{big-identifier} \qquad $\mathit{big-identifier}$
> \end{document}
>
> You'd like the right-hand one to look like the left-hand one, but it
> doesn't.
(Ugh, you're right, I should have tried it...)
> I had to do a usenet search for this, but the answer seems to be:
>
> \documentclass{article}
>
> \usepackage{amstext} %% included in recent teTeX distributions
>
> \begin{document}
>
> $a_{\text{\textit{big-identifier}}}$
>
> \end{document}
>
> Essentially, \text is like \mbox, except that it does scaling right
> in superscripts and subscripts.
Ah! I knew there was something I used that made it work right... The
main problem with the ams packages is that it's hard to remember
they're there...
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