Re: [AUCTeX] font issues

[David Kastrup]

Alejandro Jakubi <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>>> 2. In M_\mathrm{Cu} {Cu} is not displayed as part of the subindex.
>>
>> Stuff like that is not valid LaTeX, anyway: there is no guarantee that
>> this will actually produce a working subscript unless you enclose the
>> \mathrm{Cu} in another pair of braces.
>
> It has always worked fine for me. Even if it were not orthodox LaTeX,
> can it be displayed as subindex?

I don't think that it makes sense to build knowledge into font-latex
about which control sequences with how many arguments can be expected
not to break under such usage.  And there is no guarantee that the
status stays the same between LaTeX versions, anyway.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum