X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["740" "Thu" "19" "June" "1997" "18:26:19" "+0200" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "27" "Re: [Bug Report] Problem with INPUTENC package and TOC files." "^Date:" nil nil "6" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA19610; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:27:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <11.EC984354@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:27:36 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 155974 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:26:56 +0200 Received: from ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de (ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de [193.174.248.2]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id SAA10665 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:26:50 +0200 (MET DST) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:26:30 +0200 X400-Received: by mta venus in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:21:27 +0200 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:20:15 +0200 X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.MHS-RELAY.SUN2 in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:26:19 +0200 X400-Originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<199706191620.RAA07046@fell.open] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re: (091)Bug ... Alternate-Recipient: Allowed References: , <199706181237.MAA00063@ew160061.nets.de.eds.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <199706191620.RAA07046@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199706181237.MAA00063@ew160061.nets.de.eds.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:26:19 +0200 From: Chris Rowley Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: [Bug Report] Problem with INPUTENC package and TOC files. Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2117 Warning ======= Frank Mittelbach wrote -- > > BTW, why not to write \DeclareTextSymbol\CYRV{LCY}{198}, i.e. without > > unnecessary braces? > > I do not like to type unnecessary characters in my texts. :-) > > it is good style ;-) > > yes it has its uses as it allows to parse stuff in an > easier way. for example if you do > > \newcommand\foo{} > > then latex2html will not parse it correctly. There are an increasing number of programs around nowadays that parse LaTeX code directly and they are often much less forgiving than doood old TeX itself since there originators probably RTFMed. So it is now becoming more important for even Frank (and me) to use precisely correct LaTeX commands and LaTeX syntax in documents. chris