Re: b/c

On 03/12/2024 11:36, Bob Tennent wrote:
>
> Hi.  I need to include the text "8 b/c" in a TeX document without 
> extra space around the /.  After some experimentation, I got 
> reasonable output using 8\,b$\!/\!$c; is there a better approach?

Using plain XeTeX with unspecified font (and therefore with CMR10), I 
see no extra space around the slash — TeX uses its natural width.  If 
you want tighter kerning, then you could manually kern, as in 8 b\kern 
-0,1 em /\kern -0,1 em c.

8 b/c
\end

8 b\kern -0,1 em /\kern -0,1 em c
\end

-- 
/Philip Taylor/