14 Mar
2025
14 Mar
'25
7:50 p.m.
Am 14.03.25 um 19:37 schrieb roberto.bianchi@pominirollingmills.com:
I'm just wondering why sometime the code without the "\relax" command works. The scanner is a program, it should process the input file always in the same way, so what I have experienced sounds strange to me.
Can be that the explanation? If \footerdate is starting with m (i.e. March 2025) the scanner reads the M as an input for \hskip0.2em (the "minus" is looking for), if \footerdate is starting with a different letter (i.e. J of June) the scanner is not confused and the process goes to the end.
Have I got the point?
Sounds like it, we discussed the same problem already a few times (p or m after a first value for glue). Glue is unsafe without a limiter. Hraban