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              Mon, 31 Jan 1994 12:45:15 LCL)
Date:         Mon, 31 Jan 1994 13:09:26 GMT
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
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Subject:      Re: form and content
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Mike> Was this intentional, or an oversight in the way the macros were
Mike> defined? So the existence of the command \foo implies the
Mike> existence of the environment foo.

Intentional, and `documented by example' on page 18 of the LaTeX book.

It says:  \begin{em} \end{em} is eqivalent to {\em }


To be read as: any declaration {\foo } may also be entered as an
environment \begin{foo} \end{foo}

(I dont think it is anywhere else in the book, I havent read it for a
while :-)

David