[Mac OS X TeX] Macro Question

[Zachary Davis]

<x-flowed windows-1252>Thanks,

You're right, the macro should read:

\def\linespacing#1{\baselineskip=#1\normalbaselineskip}

On Sunday, June 17, 2001, at 02:18  AM, Ross Moore wrote:

>
> The macro that I've defined here does not reside within an environment,
> but is rather a stand-alone macro:
>
> \def\linespacing\#1{\baselineskip=#1\normalbaselineskip}
>                 ^
> what is this \ for ?
> # by itself is a macro-parameter, \# is not.
>
>
> Hope this helps ?
>
> 	Ross Moore
>
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