[texhax] the \let command
tom sgouros
tomfool at as220.org
Mon Nov 27 16:49:25 CET 2006
Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote:
> Can you define "doesn't work" ? It does what I would
> na\"\i vely expect it to do, without knowing exactly what
> the LaTeX command "\t" (-> .\OML-cmd \t \OML\t ) is
> expected to do ...
Perhaps this will make it clearer:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\t bb
\let\tie\t
\def\t{t}
\let\mycedilla\c
\def\c{c}
\t bb
\tie bb
\c b
\mycedilla b
\end{document}
Please explain why the "\t bb" at the beginning of the file behaves
differently from the "\tie bb" further down. When I try this, the first
"\t bb" makes a tie over the "bb", but the "\tie bb" produces what
appears to be an italic "t" followed by a "bb". My understanding of the
\let would imply to me that the \tie should be identical to the original
definition of the \t, but it is not. Why not?
-tom
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