Re: Writing a patch for the emacs Tex interface

[David Kastrup]

>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:

 Miles> David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) writes:
 Rod> However if I do {\em There was a {\bf cat} on the mat} Then,
 Rod> There was is emphasized and cat bold but on the mat is plain and
 Rod> the bold cat is not emphasized heheh sounds funny, sorry.
 >> 
 >> Is there a particular reason that you want to go to extra work in
 >> order to colour a syntax that has been deprecated for more than 6
 >> years?

 Miles> Perhaps it's because about 99% of all TeX/LaTex files still
 Miles> use that syntax...  [around here, anyway]

Since it leads to bad spacing particularly between slanted and
non-slanted text, I don't see a particularly important reason to
actually encourage the stuff.

Of course, it is hard to avoid catering with those since they are
indispensible in *plain* TeX.  But plain TeX writers are not such
weenies as to require angry fruit salad coloring in the first place.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de