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- From: A8131DAL@vm.univie.ac.at (Peter Schmitt)
- Subject: Re: Strange behavior using \font
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.133607.15125@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:30:17 GMT
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- >>everything worked. Why is "mikea" valid and "mike1" not valid?
- >>Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
- >
- >1) Numbers cannot be parts of control sequences. 2) the = is optional.
- >So TeX interprets \font\mike1 to be equivalent to \font\mike=1,
- >and cannot find the file 1.tfm.
- >
- >Tim Larkin
- >tsl1@cornell.edu
-
- That is true, but not the whole truth:
- (1) numbers *can* be parts of controlsequences:
- ¢csname mark1¢endcsname
- (2) the same holds for every non-letter (e.g., ¢mark!)
-
- Peter
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