Karl Berry writes:
> It could still easily have ill effects if other (tex4ht or
> latex) macros that use \sp happen to get invoked,
> though. Safer not to redefine it. -k
Safer still to use a suitable LaTeX profile. With such a
system introducing \sp as a newcommand in
[timing issue]
It could still easily have ill effects if other (tex4ht or latex) macros
that use \sp happen to get invoked, though. Safer not to redefine it. -k
Sorry for the off-topic quation: Does anyone know why?
\sp (and \sb) were defined in plain TeX, to provide control sequences
to achieve the results of ^ and _ without having to type special
characters. LaTeX inherited them, as it inherited a variety of other
"random" plain TeX control
Quoting Hans Georg Schaathun (2016-11-01 20:19:52)
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 08:53:22AM -0700, William F Hammond wrote:
> > Unfortunately, latex.ltx (in the latex base) contains: \let\sp=^
>
> Ah. I did not know. Thanks.
> Sorry for the off-topic quation: Does anyone know why?
> What is it
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Hans Georg Schaathun <
georg+...@schaathun.net> wrote:
> I tried to define an \sp macro in LaTeX, to do something like this:
>\def\sp{\mathsf{span}}
>\[ \sp\{x\} \]
>\[ x^2 \]
> There is no problem with pdflatex, but evidently tex4ht uses \sp for
>