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Article #701Re: TeX grammar
From: Donald Arseneau
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 08:22
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 08:22
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In article <1992Aug2.211518.14238@u.washington.edu>, janhsu@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi) writes... >The cat is worth much $ today. >Would I type: The cat is worth much \$ today? Yes >What is the truth? The book of TeX, Chapter 3, page 7; D Knuth spake: control word; it consists of an escape character followed by one or more letters, followed by a space or something besides a letter. control symbol; it consists of the escape character followed by a single nonletter. In this case you don't need a space to separate the control sequence from a letter that follows [8] When a space comes after a control word (an all-letter control sequence) it is ignored by TeX; i.e., it is not considered to be a "real" space belonging to the manuscript that is being typeset. But when a space comes after a control symbol, it's truly a space. Your scribe, brother Donald.
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