What is \\kern instruction good for and how is it defined? I need to comply with a certain paper template, \documentclass[conference]{ieeetran} % i do not know what the command below does but it. I cannot find it in knuth's book texbook.
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I am personally looking for something which works for lualatex. See the caption package documentation for explanation In tex, code like i\\kern37ptlike\\hskip100ptcake works perfectly well.
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That makes me wonder how exactly the syntax of primitive commands like \\kern, \\hskip etc. However, this does not work if the column you. The original computer modern math italic font has a modest amount of kerning listed in its tfm metrics (largely for punctuation, but also for some exceptions like lower case. Thus, the correct use of \kern or \mkern is to move the cursor, as for placing symbols on top of each other, eliminating an unwanted space when piecing together a big and notionally unified.
