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- From: Tim Larkin <tsl1@cornell.edu>
- Subject: Re: how to do this 'simple' thing in TEX? from a new user
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- In article <1992Dec18.170004.15136@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> My name is Nasser
- Abbasi, abbasi@star.enet.dec.com writes:
- > i tried to play with \hskip 1in and tried different values,
- > but iam getting frustrated, Iam sure there got to be some \command
- that
- > tells TeX to take every thing I type as is. but i cant find it?
- >
- > any one please knows how to do this?
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- I believe that Plain TeX has no command to do what you want. However,
- the book "TeX for the Impatient" shows the definition of such a macro,
- \obeywhitespace, on page. 293.
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