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From: maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: error in LaTeX's \paragraph command (solved)
Keywords: latex, paragraph
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.100031.18387@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Jan 91 10:00:31 GMT
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In article <1991Jan14.185757.12462@agate.berkeley.edu>,
raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) writes:

> Easy exercise:  Explain why you *don't* get an error with
> 
>    \paragraph{Minuscule chance of error}
> 
> even though \@svsechd expands to
> 
>    ...\hskip \z@ Minuscule chance of error...

I haven't seen any more on this "easy exercise", so I'll risk sticking
my neck out.

I spent a while trying to work out why it wouldn't fail, and couldn't
think of any reason.  So in desperation, I tried it.  It *did* fail,
complaining at the "c" in "Minuscule".

Am I missing something very very subtle here?

Martyn Johnson  ---  University of Cambridge Computer Lab  ---  Cambridge UK