[texhax] typset mistranslates the anglbrackets

[David Crosswell]

On 20/03/13 11:37, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 2013-03-19 at 23:57:19 +0100, Uwe Lück wrote:
>
>  > while I still have not understood \/ entirely 
>  > ("provisional" for the case of \it?)
>
> It's mentioned in the index of The TeXbook.  AFAIK there is an
> italics-correction entry for each glyph in the tfm files.
>
> If you want to investigate, the program tftopl is your friend:
>
>   tftopl --help
Not being able to recall the post that mentioned application of this,
the only time I use \/ is to assist in separation of a font that
interferes with itself on display, generally in regard to fi, ff, or fl
combinations.
Is that the application here?
Kind regards,

David.