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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: numexpr in etex / bug ?
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 16:04:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040214160212.03436c88@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <745817953.20040214125937@iol.it>

At 12:59 14/02/2004, you wrote:

>Observe that this is congruent with the TeX way of scanning for
>assignments.

not entirely since the space is not seen as a delimiter

\count0=123 4
\count0=\numexpr(123) 4

>So always put a \relax after an expression :)

yes, but i'm occasionally surpised when a \relax is pushed back in the list 
(and for instance acrobat does not like "/Whatever 12\relax"

>What other problems are you having? Keep in mind the limited
>precision TeX works with.

Many ... we can get depressed on that at the dante meeting ... but then get 
cheered up by a few new nice things that tex can do with pdf (more later)

Hans



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-14 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-12 20:26 Hans Hagen
2004-02-14 11:59 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-02-14 15:04   ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2004-02-14 18:18     ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta

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