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Article #4082Re: Comments on TeX - The Program
From: T Anderson
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1987 14:15
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1987 14:15
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... > Maybe LaTeX helps? I try to avoid anything in which the word > FRAGILE appears in the documentation but a lot of people use it but > then a lot of people smoke cigarettes too. Would anyone care to > estimate the fraction of contributions to the TeXhax mailing list > that deal with fonts? FRAGILE only refers to commands that behave differently when used as arguments to other commands than when used directly in horizontal or vertical mode. As far as I know, they are no more likely than any command to behave differently on someone else's system. They are simply macros that must be evaluated before passing. Avoiding them is like avoiding all non-quoted commands in LISP. The command \protect is essentially like eval in LISP and forces earlier evaluation of the macro it is attached to. -- Terry L Anderson AT&T Bell Laboratories -- Liberty Corners UUCP: ...!ihnp4!kaiser!tla TeleMail: Terry.Anderson (201) 580-4428
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