At 12:59 14/02/2004, you wrote:
Observe that this is congruent with the TeX way of scanning for assignments.
not entirely since the space is not seen as a delimiter \count0=123 4 \count0=\numexpr(123) 4
So always put a \relax after an expression :)
yes, but i'm occasionally surpised when a \relax is pushed back in the list (and for instance acrobat does not like "/Whatever 12\relax"
What other problems are you having? Keep in mind the limited precision TeX works with.
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