[texhax] [tex-live] Fwd: [OS X TeX] Beamer in MacTeX 2009 vs. 2010

Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Thu Sep 16 09:31:26 CEST 2010



Heiko Oberdiek wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:09:59AM +0100, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:

>> Is this really the case, Heiko ?  (I ask as someone who
>> knows almost nothing about the internals of LaTeX).  For
>> arbitrary \command [optional parameters] {mandatory
>> parameters}, does LaTeX always remove all spaces from
>> [optional parameters] before passing them on ?
>
> Yes, via \zap at space all spaces outside braces are removed.
> Thus the following works:
>    \usepackage[pdfborder={0 0 0}]{hyperref}

Oh.  Well, I guess Leslie had a reason for making that way,
but I've never seen it documented before.  Many thanks for
the clarification.

** Phil.


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