<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">god almighty; latex is such a gigantic hack, isn't it?<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 25, 2007, at 7:38 AM, Robin Houston wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On 4/25/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Charilaos Skiadas</B> <<A href="mailto:skiadas@hanover.edu">skiadas@hanover.edu</A>> wrote:<DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The problem with that is that it makes code like $foo} valid, so</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR>I see what you mean (about making it harder to detect problems with braces), but on the other hand $foo} *is* potentially valid code.<BR> </DIV><BR>For example, here is the definition that originally prompted me to make the change:<BR><BR>%% Centred math environment, spilling into the margins if needed<BR>\newenvironment{mspill}{%<BR> \vskip\abovedisplayskip\hbox to \textwidth\bgroup\hss% <BR> \hbox\bgroup$\displaystyle<BR>}{%<BR> $\egroup\hss\egroup\vskip\belowdisplayskip\noindent\ignorespacesafterend<BR>}<BR><BR>Robin<BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">______________________________________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For new threads USE THIS: <A href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>