Please attempt to observe the following wherever possible, although we
realise this is somewhat laborious. It would be of great help to editors,
however, if you could remember to look out for the following cases.
When using italic mode {\em }
, you will need to insert a
small amount of space on occasion to prevent italicised
characters from leaning over into normal characters. To do this,
insert \/
between the last italicised character and the
closing curly brace. So to get:
This is easy, isn't it?
as opposed to:
This is easy, isn't it?
all you do is type: This is easy, {\em is\/}n't it?
You do not have to insert spacing if the following character is a simple
punctuation mark, such as a comma.
Use \
immediately after a full stop which does not end a
sentence, to stop extra space being inserted as in:
e.g.\
which gives e.g. and not e.g. or B.B.C.\
giving
B.B.C. and not B.B.C. and so on.
When an upper-case letter terminates a sentence,
use \@
immediately after it, before the full stop, as in:
...turn to chapter II. This chapter ...
which is produced by:
...turn to chapter II\@
. This chapter ...
This ensures
the correct amount of space after the full stop.
Similarly, \
and \@
are used after other
sentence terminators (`?', `!', `:' and so on).
Note that spacing effects will typically not be visible in the HTML
version.
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