Philip,<br><br>Thanks very much for the reply and the help.<br><br>Tom<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear Tom -- I know nothing about SW, but I may<br>
be able to answer a couple of your more straightforward<br>
questions :<div class="im"><br>
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a. What is the purpose of a backslash without an appended command?<br>
For example, I find them between all sentences as in this excerpt:<br>
<br>
TIPS are coupon bonds that have been issued by the U.S. government since<br>
1997. \ They are currently auctioned at 5-, 10-, and 30-year maturities. \<br>
Unlike standard Treasury notes and bonds whose coupon and principal are<br>
fixed dollar payments, TIPS make payments proportional to the Consumer Price<br>
Index (CPI).<br>
<br>
I have never seen this before and wondered what purpose it serves.<br>
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The "appended command" is a space; thus the complete control<br>
sequence is "\ ", which inserts a space. The apparent intended<br>
effect is to increase the inter-sentence spacing (there are other<br>
ways of achieving this).<div class="im"><br>
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b. Does the following structure<br>
<br>
&=&<br>
<br>
serve to keep the = signs aligned in a multiline equation?<br>
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Yes.<br><font color="#888888">
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Philip Taylor<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thomas Jacobs<br>