Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:36:55 -0600:
Hmm, I was a little worried at first about >2-char switches at first, till I noticed that type-siz.tex uses some four-letter switches as well, e.g.
============line-575============== \definebodyfont [12pt] [mm] [mrbf=xcmb12, exbf=cmex10 at 12pt, mibf=cmmib10 at 12pt, sybf=cmbsy10 at 12pt] =====================================
So I assumed that such a scheme would work.
Empirical experimentation was my guide, really. The lines you cite above are for the very special bold math case, which came into the core only a year or two ago. http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0005.pdf adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-