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Subject: Re: "Negative" font switches
Date: 26 Jan 2001 17:01:18 -0500
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Giuseppe Bilotta <oblomov@freemail.it> writes:

> Hello, one more request: I would like to see some font switches that act by
> "nullifying" other switches. An example would explain better:
> 
> {\bf Some bold {\nobf and some not bold} text}
> 
> should be equivalent to
> 
> {\bf Some bold} and some not bold {\bf text}

Could you give a concrete example of a situation where the "\nobf"
method is easier or clearer than the second method?

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