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Re: An extremely robust way to define fonts

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From: Damian Cugley
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 12:59
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trivedi@curie.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi):

> \batchmode\global\font#1=#2\errorstopmode%	% 1st
> \ifx#1\nullfont%
>   [... code if font not found ...]

This works -- if TeX happened to be in \errorstopmode.  Is there a way
to do this that does not force TeX to be in \errorstopmode afterwards?

(Also the percent signs at the ends of those lines are not necessary,
because they follow control-words.)

Damian
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From: Damian.Cugley@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley)
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Subject: Re: An extremely robust way to define fonts
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