Re: staff-space doesn't seem to work as documented

[Trevor Daniels]

Phil Holmes wrote Saturday, March 27, 2010 10:37 AM


> The user error was actually in the quoting in my email: I'd tried 
> both #'1.5 and #1.5 and neither had worked.  Thanks to those who 
> pointed out the requirement for white space between the font size 
> specification and the curly brace: #'1.5 } and #1.5 } both work. 
> #1.5} doesn't work, and I'd not picked this up from the 
> documentation since I tend to put commands of this sort on a 
> single line, which the documentation doesn't.

There's a big warning about this right at the beginning of the 
Learning Manual.  Section 1.1.1 "Entering input" says "... braces 
should also be surrounded by a space unless they are at the 
beginning or end of a line to avoid ambiguities."

Trevor