[XeTeX] linux libertine and number

Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Wed Dec 29 11:01:57 CET 2010



Ulrike Fischer wrote:

> It is a very bad idea to make numbers active and to define them in
> this way. As an example try to uncomment one of the last lines:

Within a restricted universe of discourse, it is perfectly reasonable
to make digits active; if the author then chooses to forget that that
is what he/she has done, and use them as per your example, then /caveat
emptor/ must surely apply.

Philip Taylor


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