Re: [Nuweb-users] underscore character in macro names

[Mark W. <ma...@as...>]

>Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 00:44:48 -0500
>From: Tommaso Toffoli <tt...@bu...>
>To: nuw...@li...
>Subject: [Nuweb-users] underscore character in macro names
>
>
>I started using nuweb. I greatly appreciate its simplicty and hassle-free
>operation.
>
>However, I discovered that macro names with un underscore
>in them meet the usual problem that underscore is treated by default
>by TeX as a math-mode character introducing a subscript.
>
>Is there a simple way to inhibit that behavior,
>so as to have undersore available in macro names?

Given that macro names (defined with @d or @D) are typeset as TeX text, the 
standard mechanisms are all available.  But why in general would you want 
to suppress them?

For example,

@D Define the variable \texttt{the\_variable} @{

should produce a macro with the variable name in typewriter font, with an 
embedded underscore, while

@D Increment $x_i$ @{

will show x_i as a math variable, setting the "i" as a subscript.

Hope this helps

Mark B. Wroth
<ma...@as...>

Mark B. Wroth
<ma...@as...>