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From: jjsf@gmv.es (Julio Sanchez)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: tex and sgml ?
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Date: 1 Mar 90 14:51:41 GMT
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Reply-To: jsanchez@gmv.es (Julio Sanchez)
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In article <SPQR.90Feb28093602@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk> spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) writes:
>>>>>> On 27 Feb 90 23:24:30 GMT, emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) said:
> > structure.  Besides, my brain copes better with <italic>
> > this style </italic> than it does with \it{this style},
> > just the way it works I guess.
>shame that \it{anything} will not actually work in TeX, isn't it :-}

Well, \it{anything} won't work but you can do something like
\italic{anything} defining:

\long\def\italic#1{{\it#1}}

But, in the general case, you shouldn't because more resources are 
involved in dealing with the argument (cf. TeXbook, page 205). In some 
cases you could even run out of memory.

Julio