[Doc-SIG] Re: Big latex subscript font using python.sty and manual.cls

[Bo Peng]

Anyone? I guess this list is no longer active?

Bo


On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:47:55 -0600, Bo Peng <ben.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I am writing a manual for my python extension using Python (2.4) latex
> classes. Everything seems to be fine except that the subscripts are as
> big as normal text ( see page 55 of
> http://bp6.stat.rice.edu:8080/simuPOP_doc/userGuide.pdf ). I doubt
> that the following piece of code in python.sty is causing the problem
> but can not fix it. (I get errors when commenting out this block of
> code.) Does anyone know what is happening here? Maybe there is a font
> size setting somewhere?
> 
> Note that the subscripts are OK if I use other classes like report.cls.
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Bo
> 
> %%%%% in python.sty %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> % This gets the underscores closer to the right width; the only change
> % from standard LaTeX is the width specified.
> 
> \DeclareTextCommandDefault{\textunderscore}{%
>   \leavevmode \kern.06em\vbox{\hrule\@width.55em}}
> 
> % Underscore hack (only act like subscript operator if in math mode)
> %
> % The following is due to Mark Wooding (the old version didn't work with
> % Latex 2e.
> 
> \DeclareRobustCommand\hackscore{%
>   \ifmmode_\else\textunderscore\fi%
> }
> \begingroup
> \catcode`\_\active
> \def\next{%
>   \AtBeginDocument{\catcode`\_\active\def_{\hackscore{}}}%
> }
> \expandafter\endgroup\next
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>