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- From: hamlin@aps.org (Chris Hamlin 2369)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: \text and NFSS
- Message-ID: <9212161845.AA24374@lancelot>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 13:45:03 -0500
- Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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- > Using \text is a very bad idea since it defined in lfonts.new the replacement
- > lfonts.tex loaded for the NFSS. This then affects the definitions of
- > \pdollar and \ppounds which use \text. The definitions are
- > .
- > .
- > .
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- I checked my lfonts.new but didn't find \text defined. In nfss.bug I found
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- ** (36) FMi 92/03/21: Macro \text was renamed to \nfss@text to make it
- internal because people complained that the name is too
- common. The style file amstext.sty will redefine this to
- behave like the \text macro in amstext. This means that people
- who wish to use \text the way it was before need to load
- amstext.sty in the \documentstyle command.
-
- So it looks like FMi and RS have now given us back \text, BUT it is may be safer
- to use another name unless you know exactly what you're running on.
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- Chris Hamlin, mis@aps.org
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