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Re: Leading whitespace in macros is stripped


From: Stepan Kasal
Subject: Re: Leading whitespace in macros is stripped
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:34:43 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i

Hello,

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:58:00AM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
>     leading whitespace is stripped in the @macro
> 
> For now, all I can offer is an ugly workaround: replace every leading
> space in the macro body with `@ '.

I'm afraid this is not enough, at least as far as TeX is concerned.
You should better replace all spaces in the example body.

When TeX reads the body of the macro, it not only ignores leading spaces,
it also treats successive spaces as one space.

HTH,
        Stepan




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