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From: maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: def numbering in LaTeX
Keywords: uniqueness
Message-ID: <266@poppy.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Apr 89 20:10:55 GMT
References: <838@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox)
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In article <838@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu> apollo@ecf.toronto.edu (Vince Pugliese) writes:
%
% i was wondering if it is possible to make def's unique by simply
% appending a number to the macro definition, e.g.
%                \def\dummy_macro{..... 
%                 \def\dummy_macro2{......
%
%   LaTeX  does not seem to like the second def when it used  in the
%   body of the text arguing that the definition of  dummy_macro2 does
%   not exist. any suggestions or ideas?
 
This is TeX's fault, you can't have digits as part of a macro/function
name and hence the same applies to LaTeX.

- RC

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