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From: trh@ukc.ac.uk (T.R.Hopkins)
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Subject: LaTeX Query
Message-ID: <1771@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 17:38:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: eagle.1771
Posted: Fri Aug  8 17:38:44 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 11-Aug-86 04:39:37 EDT
Organization: U of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK
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We have just installed the latest version of LaTeX (2.09).
The replacement, eqnarray, for \eqalign from Plain
TeX leaves far too much room on either side of the = for my
liking.

Naively I typed in the definition from page 362 of the TeX
Book replacing the \def by \newcommand and the \m@th by \mathsurround=0pt
(page 353 of the TeX Book). I get the following message apparently
when exiting from the display equation, I ceratinly haven't used accent.

! Please use \mathaccent for accents in math mode.
\.#1->{\accent 
               95 #1}
l.17 \]

Please can anyone advise me what I'm doing wrong and how I can fix it.

Thanks in advance
Tim Hopkins,
Computing Laboratory,
University of Kent,
Canterbury CT2 7NF
Kent
U.K.

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