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Date:         Wed, 2 May 90 14:59:16 PDT
Reply-To: LaTeX-L Mailing list <LATEX-L@DHDURZ1.uucp>
From: Leslie Lamport <lamport@SRC.DEC.COM>
Subject:      Re: Blank lines in math, array, eqnarray, et al
To: Rainer Schoepf <BK4@DHDURZ1.uucp>
Status: R
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I presume that Don made \par illegal in math mode to help catch errors.
However, he was inconsistent about this, since \par is simply ignored
in internal horizontal mode (or whatever it's called when you're inside
an \hbox).

It would be easy to make \par a no-op inside \[ ... \] and \( ... \),
but a pain to do it inside $ ...  $.  Since $ ...  $ is allowed, it
should work the same as \( ...  \).  It's easy enough to put a "%" at
the beginning of a blank line, so I see no good reason for this change.
Version 2.10 is not supposed to have such gratuitous improvements.

Leslie Lamport