<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Karl, Thanks for the feedback. I was working on a revision today and tested \alph and \Alph beyond the numeric range of 1-26 and LaTeX does give an error. I was thinking of adding a work-around that some people were advocating on <a href="http://tex.stackexchange.com" target="_blank">tex.stackexchange.com</a> but I had some difficulty getting a MWE to work. A short while ago Jim posted that he's already "coded it up and sent it in." So maybe what I was pursuing would be going too far down the rabbit hole.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Jim - Thanks for going with what I had and I will begin working on \big, \bigg, etc.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, Bob<br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 5:41 PM Karl Berry <<a href="mailto:karl@freefriends.org" target="_blank">karl@freefriends.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Bob - nice, thanks. In reverse order.<br>
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Commands that cause the counter(s) {counter} to be typeset as a<br>
lowercase or uppercase letter.<br>
<br>
Perhaps: ... uppercase (English) letter, a--z or A--Z.<br>
(Just to be explicit that letters like German es-zet are not included here.)<br>
<br>
What I'm curious about is what happens if the value is <1 or >26.<br>
Does LaTeX report an error? Or does it just typeset some "random"<br>
character?<br>
<br>
The accent mark is selected by <number>, a numeric argument,<br>
followed by a space and then a <character> argument to construct the<br>
accented character in the current font. <br>
<br>
The <number> is a character code in the current font, but the<br>
<character> can come from a different font. (I'll insert the texbook.tex<br>
description below since I have it up.) I don't think we need to explain<br>
everything Knuth does, just say there can be an optional font change<br>
between the <number> and the <character>.<br>
<br>
Also, for completeness, we should say that the space factor is set to 1000.<br>
(I didn't remember that until I reread Knuth's description.)<br>
<br>
--thanks, karl.<br>
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[from texbook.tex]<br>
<br>
\\^|\accent|\<8-bit number>\<optional assignments>.<br>
Here ^\<optional assignments> stands for zero or more \<assignment><br>
commands other than ^|\setbox|.<br>
If the assignments are not followed by a \<character>, where<br>
\<character> stands for any of the commands just discussed in the previous<br>
paragraph, \TeX\ treats |\accent| as if it were |\char|, except that<br>
the space factor is set to 1000. Otherwise the character that follows<br>
the assignment is accented by the character that corresponds to the<br>
\<8-bit number>. \ (The purpose of the intervening assignments is to<br>
allow the accenter and accentee to be in different fonts.) \ If the<br>
accent must be moved up or down, it is put into an hbox that is<br>
raised or lowered. Then the accent is effectively superposed on the<br>
character by means of kerns, in such a way that the width of the accent<br>
does not influence the width of the resulting horizontal list.<br>
Finally, \TeX\ sets |\spacefactor=1000|.<br>
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