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  2. From: Timothy Larkin <tsl1@cornell.edu>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
  4. Subject: Re: Strange behavior using \font
  5. Date: 9 Jan 1993 20:02:02 GMT
  6. Organization: Cornell University
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  14. X-XXDate: Sat, 9 Jan 93 16:06:04 GMT
  15.  
  16. In article <19930108.101158.858@almaden.ibm.com> Michael Fortinsky,
  17. fortinsk@torolab5.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
  18. >everything worked. Why is "mikea" valid and "mike1" not valid?
  19. >Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
  20.  
  21. 1) Numbers cannot be parts of control sequences. 2) the = is optional.
  22. So TeX interprets \font\mike1 to be equivalent to \font\mike=1,
  23. and cannot find the file 1.tfm.
  24.  
  25. Tim Larkin
  26. tsl1@cornell.edu
  27.