From: Karsten Tinnefeld <tinne@noether.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: \pounds problem
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 15:55:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200006021355.PAA15326@peano.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jun 2000 16:00:50 +0300." <000901bfcc92$a8982ce0$e60761c3@chris>
> \def\pounds{\char191}
> ! Bad character code (19120).
> Obviously it is appending the 20 in £20 to the character code. Is there a
> TeX trick for forcing it out of \char mode?
It is in number parsing mode. You can add a space after a number. This
space is "part of" the number representation and absorbed when parsing
"in TeX's mouth". See TeXbook, pages 43f.
\def \pounds {\char 191 }
Karsten
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-02 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-31 18:12 Christopher G D Tipper
2000-05-31 19:10 ` Ed L Cashin
2000-05-31 20:50 ` Christopher G D Tipper
2000-06-01 12:54 ` Ed L Cashin
2000-06-01 22:45 ` Hans Hagen
2000-06-02 13:00 ` Christopher G D Tipper
2000-06-02 13:39 ` Ed L Cashin
2000-06-02 13:55 ` Karsten Tinnefeld [this message]
2000-06-02 13:19 Christopher G D Tipper
2000-06-02 20:25 Christopher G D Tipper
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