Font switch \x does not work
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Hello, Font switching described in sec.5.3 of the manual, does not work in mkiv. {\x some text } ! Undefined control sequence. l.48 {\x some text } ? ! Emergency stop. Regards, Vaytcheslav
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Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
Hello,
Font switching described in sec.5.3 of the manual, does not work in mkiv.
{\x some text }
! Undefined control sequence. l.48 {\x some text } ? ! Emergency stop.
indeed: \x \xi \v etx are dropped in mkiv ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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On Thu, 14 May 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
Hello,
Font switching described in sec.5.3 of the manual, does not work in mkiv.
{\x some text }
! Undefined control sequence. l.48 {\x some text } ? ! Emergency stop.
This has been removed from mkiv. There was a discussion about it a few weeks back which concluded with a suggestion that we should have a compatibility module for mkiv. I guess we should start filling in m-mkii.mkiv. Hans, here is a version that takes care of \x, etc. Aditya
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On Wed, 13 May 2009, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
Hello,
Font switching described in sec.5.3 of the manual, does not work in mkiv.
{\x some text }
! Undefined control sequence. l.48 {\x some text } ? ! Emergency stop.
This has been removed from mkiv. There was a discussion about it a few weeks back which concluded with a suggestion that we should have a compatibility module for mkiv. I guess we should start filling in m-mkii.mkiv.
Hans, here is a version that takes care of \x, etc.
which should be surrounded by \unprotect and \protect. Aditya
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Aditya Mahajan
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Hans Hagen
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Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky