Am 29.06.2021 um 12:34 schrieb Hans Hagen :

On 6/29/2021 1:08 AM, Rik Kabel wrote:

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All, Examining recent log files, I see the message suggestion > use \thinspace instead of \, When was this instituted?

a while ago

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What does it mean? Has \, been deprecated? For many years it was recommended as a short form of \thinspace, and implementing the replacement would certainly result in much less readable source. not depricated but these single character commands are somewhat weird (i always forget what they mean, not that i ever use them; when many are needed one can wonder if something else should be fixed instead)

(for instance in macro definitions i'd not use \, but the more verbose \thinspace)

Maybe, but in running text I use \, all the time e.\,g. in abbreviations or for numbers (10\,000). At least in German typography these “spatiums” are necessary. Hraban

Alan Braslau schrieb am 29.06.2021 um 17:40:

On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:06:02 +0200 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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Maybe, but in running text I use \, all the time e.\,g. in abbreviations or for numbers (10\,000). At least in German typography these “spatiums” are necessary. In French typography as well.

Indeed, American: 10,000.00 French: 10\,000,00 (and other languages).

This is quite readable, and much preferred to the use of any kind of macro that might format numbers according to language.

I find that students often need such helpers when deciphering many digits.

Let's not forget all of these spaces commands are used in math mode. Wolfgang