Hi, While at this topic: I am currently processing streaming XML and I need a way to switch to a font alternative without gobbling up following whitespace. With \bf in plain TeX, I would do this: {\bf{} bla bla} but with \bold (that I am told I should use instead), that doesn't work because the empty group becomes the argument. I now have {\bold\relax{} bla bla} but that is quite silly. Is there some official command to ‘fix' this issue?

On 19 Jul 2019, at 13:52, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Henri Menke schrieb am 18.07.2019 um 23:29:

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For what it's worth, the MKIV way to switch to bold face is \bold{text} instead of {\bf text} but it also doesn't fix your problem because neither of the two start a new paragraph before the first letter and therefore \the\everypar is still inside a group. The normal switch to use bold style is \bf and \bold{...} (or {\bold ...}) is only a alternative switch which uses \bf to change the font. The same applies to \italic{...}, \mono{...} etc.

Wolfgang

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