Re: conflict between eq and diag

[Jeff Kingston]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:40:59 +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

  > > If eq and diag are used simultaneously, the @E in address@hidden will be
  > > interpreted to be the beginning of an equation, with unintended results.
  > 
  > Will it?  Lout considers '@' to be a letter, so "address@hidden" should be
  > one word.  You can try to run with -d<something> that I don't remmeber
  > off the top of my head to see the gory lexical details.

I forget the details but I remember getting caught on this myself
once.  The solution I used was to enclose the Diag points in
double quotes:

  "address@hidden"

rather than

   address@hidden

This works because Lout treats these as strings not symbols anyway.
They are symbols to PostScript, but strings to Lout.

Jeff