Ignoring pdftex primitives

Taco Hoekwater taco.hoekwater at wkap.nl
Thu Dec 10 17:54:15 CET 1998


David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> > No
> Sorry. I was wrong. Happens quite often:-)
> 
> > (as with \hrule and \vrule in ordinary TeX),
> 
> but not repeated plus and minus in skips. Strange language, tex, isn't it.

Yep, it's beautiful. How about:

a\hskip 1pt plus 1fil l l later date
\bye

(I actually got bit by this one once: A macro ended in "1fil " and
produced wrong output if followed by a word starting with "l"). Duh.

Bye, Taco




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