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From: joe@hanauma.stanford.edu (Joe Dellinger)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Stupid Mistakes ... in TeX
Keywords: Stupid Mistakes TeX
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Date: 28 Feb 89 09:21:00 GMT
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	How about also making a list of Stupid Mistakes in TeX
	or LaTeX? Debugging TeX documents is so hard that you
	don't want to ever make any mistakes if you can help it!

	1) New student learning TeX types "1" in a control
	   sequence instead of "l". (I've been caught several
	   times by this one when someone comes to me for help.)
	2) Tring to use "\ref" in a footnote or figure caption.
	   (Solution: use "\protect" in front.)
	3) Trying to use roman text in math mode.
	   (Solution: put it in an "\hbox".)

Any others?
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