[texhax] correct spacing between adjacent quote marks

[Axel E. Retif]

On  19 Oct, 2009, at 02:29, P. R. Stanley wrote:

> What does the "em" in the definition stand for?

It's a measure relative to the size of the font you're using ---for a  
10 point size is roughly 10 points, for a 12 point size it's 12  
points, etc. It's the best way to define certain dimensions, like  
thinspace or parindent.

Best,

Axel

> Thanks
> Paul
> At 06:57 19/10/2009, you wrote:
>> On  18 Oct, 2009, at 19:43, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>>
>>> On 18 October 2009 P. R. Stanley wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks
>>>> First off
>>>> thanks for the help with the previous thread.
>>>> The question concerns the correct amount of horizontal spacing
>>>> between a single quote and a double quote mark. for example,
>>>> ``\thinspace`bla bla'\thinspace''
>>>> `\thinspace``rabit rabit rabit''\thinspace'
>>>> or is it
>>>
>>> \thinspace is a bit too large, IMO.
>>
>> Of course one can make additional kerning spaces à la \thinspace. I
>> usually use two extra positive thin spaces:
>>
>> \def\fino{\kern 0.1em }
>> \def\finito{\kern 0.05em }
>>
>> (\fino from Spanish ``thin'' and \finito from ``very thin'')
>>
>> and one negative:
>>
>> \def\finoneg{\kern -0.1em }
>>
>> In (La)TeX, \thinspace is defines as {\kern .16667em }. The space
>> between the dimension and the closing bracket *does* matter.
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Axel
>>
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