Re: Some spacing problems with @Eq

[Jeff Kingston]

You can work around it by enclosing the numbers in double
quotes, i.e. "76.14" instead of 76.14.  Why it's happening
is beyond me at this moment.

I know.  You have

    @R Pa)(76.14

Despite the parentheses, this is the same as

    @R { Pa)(76.14 }

This causes Lout to reset the preferred width of a space
between two words back to whatever the @R font prefers.
But Lout uses "separate" spacing within equations, which
means that it puts one space between each token; and tokens
are sequences of letters or *individual* digits.

It's a real gotcha.  Actually, on the rare occasions I
use @R in equations, I usually enclose the following
thing in quotes anyway since eq has so many symbols and
it is easy to bump into one of them.

If you have a lot of this can I suggest putting the following
in your mydefs file:

   import @BasicSetup
   def MM { @R "mm" }

and so on.  Then you can type

   @Eq{ ^= {(3.00 times 10 sup 6 PA )(76.14 MM) }

and so on without these problems.

Jeff