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<1992Oct23.084717.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> leichter@zodiac.rutgers.edu:

> In article <1992Oct22.155934.13351@mic.ucla.edu>, iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
> (Ivo Welch) writes:
>> (I use LaTeX on a NeXT.)  I am quite annoyed by the inability of TeX  to
>> allow digits and perhaps underline to appear in  variable names.

> Sigh.  This is SO typical of people who know nothing about TeX who start out
> by wanting to change everything to match their own biases.  (How do I know
> Mr. Welch knows nothing about TeX?  There is no such thing as a "variable";
> I'm assuming he means "macro name".  

No, "control word".  "\tenrm", "\font", "\escapechar" etc. are not macro
names, but "~" and "\+" are (in Plain TeX).


> My advice to Mr. Welch: 

My advice in return is that there is no point being rude at people
merely because they know less about something than you do.  This
newsgroup features thousands and thousands of inappropriate and foolish
articles; if I wasted time fuming at all of them I would never get any
work done at all...

Best
Damian