Thanks, Wolfgang. That is just what I needed: it works in all my environments and looks good in the output. As for line breaking, it can produce an overfull \hbox but that is very easily seen and repaired. Best, Alan On Sep 4, 2008, at 04;39,32 , Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Alan Bowen
wrote: It appears that the problem is my definition
\def\ {|~|}
Though this definition works in a simple test file, it apparently conflicts with something in my environment file and produces the error message reported previously. So, is there a "safer" way to define \<space> as {|~|}?
\def\ {\thinspace}
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