The TeXbook

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• The purpose of this pronunciation exercise is to remind you that TEX is primarily concerned with high-quality technical manuscripts: Its emphasis is on art and technology, as in the underlying Greek word. With TEX the goal is to produce the finest quality; this requires more attention to detail, but you will not find it much harder to go the extra distance, and you’ll be able to take special pride in the finished product. (查看原文)

  Josherich 2012-06-26 18:21:27

• It turns out that ‘b’ is character number 98 in ASCII. So you can typeset the word bubble in a strange way by putting \char98 u\char98\char98 le into your manuscript, if the b-key on your keyboard is broken. (An optional space is ignored after constants like ‘98’. Of course you need the \, c, h, a, and r keys to type ‘\char’, so let’s hope that they are always working.) (查看原文)

  Josherich 2 回复 2012-06-26 20:35:22