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Date:         Mon, 31 Jan 1994 14:12:28 +0000
From: "Chris Rowley | OU - UK [R01/Maths]" <C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk>
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Subject:      Re: form and content
Status: R

>
> 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}
But dont forget that, if used in the, for example,

\begin{section}{...}
....

\end{section}

that this intoduces an extra group around the whole section.

Thus the environment form is not identical to the command form


chris