Re: centered tables

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > > But the text within @samp isn't set in italic typewriter if enclosed
> > > in @i!
> > 
> > I'm probably missing something.  Are you saying that if "a" in
> > "@samp{a}" includes quotes, then those quotes are typeset
> > incorrectly by TeX?  If not, what quotes are you talking about?
> 
> Just try it :-)

I was scared by your exclam ;-)

> You get "`a'" in the TeX output; the "`" character in
> an italic font, the "a" in an upright typesetter font, and a final "'"
> again in italics.

That's what I thought you get.  And that's what I'd expect: the quotes
aren't typeset in the fixed-width font, exactly as when the
surrounding text is in roman.  The quotes are typeset in the same font
as the surrounding text.

>  And there is no italic correction between "`" and "a".  This looks
> really strange.

If the results look ugly, perhaps texinfo.tex should allow some
mini-spacing between the quotes and the body of @samp.  But I'd expect
TeX itself to do that: isn't this exactly a job of a typesetting
program?