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From: tla@kaiser.UUCP (T Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Comments on TeX - The Program
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 10:15:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 10:15:57 1987
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> Maybe LaTeX helps?  I try to avoid anything in which the word
> FRAGILE appears in the documentation but a lot of people use it but
> then a lot of people smoke cigarettes too.  Would anyone care to
> estimate the fraction of contributions to the TeXhax mailing list
> that deal with fonts?

FRAGILE only refers to commands that behave differently when used as
arguments to other commands than when used directly in horizontal or
vertical mode.  As far as I know, they are no more likely than any
command to behave differently on someone else's system.  They are
simply macros that must be evaluated before passing.  Avoiding them
is like avoiding all non-quoted commands in LISP.  The command
\protect is essentially like eval in LISP and forces earlier 
evaluation of the macro it is attached to.  


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