Re: Strange behavior using \font

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From: Timothy Larkin
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 20:02

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In article <19930108.101158.858@almaden.ibm.com> Michael Fortinsky,
fortinsk@torolab5.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
>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

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