Talk:LaTeX/Text Formatting

Type Setting Punctuation Dashes
The Chicago style guide recommends no spaces surrounding em dashes, while the AP style guide and most US newspapers do just the opposite. Globally, and in the context in which LaTeX is most commonly used (books and academic papers, I presume) what is the preference? I ask here because this page quite rightly covers both type setting aesthetics and as the mechanics of LaTeX. 132.244.95.6 (discuss) 23:24, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Hyphenation
"This command is especially useful for words containing special characters (e.g., accented characters), because LaTeX does not automatically hyphenate words containing special characters." &mdash; is this true now UTF-8 is near universal? Robbiemorrison (discuss • contribs) 18:10, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Sadly yes! The TeX compiler dates back to 1982, revised in 1990 I believe (with a few fixes added onward). Anyway, there was no UTF-8 at that time (UTF-8 was invented in 1993). Diacritics are treated as to this day by a TeX function, it is not internal to the engine. So actually was TeX does when you use the \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} line is just transforming "é" to "\'e" for example. See texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/utf8* for further details. That's why hyphenation does not work. However, I've heard this issue has been partly addressed by the luatex folk. You may have a look in this direction. -- Ambrevar (discuss • contribs) 14:44, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Inter-letter spacing
Where is the discussion of \, \; and so on? If this isn't included here, a link to the section which does cover it would be in order. 24.11.115.178 (discuss) 02:21, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Spelling error in png
In the subscript/superscript section I want to correct "Walzing" to "Waltzing" in the text, but I don't know how to make the corresponding fix to the png file. Jim 14159 (discuss • contribs) 10:16, 23 May 2021 (UTC)