Math Kerning
When left to its own devices, TeX produces
output that is superior to much
of what previously passed for acceptable mathematical typesetting. However,
there remain a large number of cases where TeX’s output exhibits
intercharacter spacing that violates TeX’s own rules!
We have devised a complex search-&-replace routine that is run on every
chapter’s source file.
This routine incorporates every needed adjustment discovered in the process
of proofreading (and so is updated almost continuously).
The result is that our mathematical typesetting exhibits none of the
unattractive vagaries that plague the unadjusted output of wholly automated
systems—principally, letters smashing into (or spaced too far from) each
other.
The file kerning.pdf shows examples of raw versus
adjusted math type.
