<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 18, 2020, at 8:08 AM, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Dec 18, 2020, at 1:48 AM, Alain Schremmer <<a href="mailto:schremmer.alain@freemathtexts.org" class="">schremmer.alain@freemathtexts.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">$\xrightarrow{5}$ and \boldsymbol{$5$} both compile but \boldsymbol{$\xrightarrow{5}$} does not.</blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The error is:</blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">2.tex:1309: Improper alphabetic constant.</blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><to be read again> </blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""> \reserved@d </blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">l.1309 \boldsymbol{$\xrightarrow{5}$}</blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Any way around it?</blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Howdy,<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Are you sure \boldsymbol{$5$} compiles? I believe the \boldsymbol needs to be in math mode so $\boldsymbol{5}$ and $\boldsymbol{\xrightarrow{5}}$ work fine.</div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><div><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -30px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Both <span style="text-indent: -30px;" class="">$\boldsymbol{5}$ and </span><span style="text-indent: -30px;" class="">\boldsymbol{$\rightarrow$} compile which is one more thing I don’t get---but which does not make me lose any </span>sleep. </div><div style="text-indent: -30px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div style="text-indent: -30px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>But $\boldsymbol{\xrightarrow{5}}$ definitely produces the error I mentioned. At least for me.</div><div style="text-indent: -30px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -30px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On the other hand, I just found out that $\pmb{\xrightarrow{5}}$ does work. So, I am ok.</div><div style="text-indent: -30px;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">As a side note you should get used to \(...\) instead of $...$ for inline math (and \[...\] instead of $$...$$ if you use that for display math).</div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><div><br class=""></div><div>When I was writing some of my stuff on the web, I did but didn’t like it so stopped using them as soon as I stopped writing web pages. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>But, I am curious, are there other reasons?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Best</div><div>—s </div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Good Luck,<br class=""><br class="">Herb Schulz<br class=""><a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br class="">TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq<br class="">List Reminders and Etiquette: https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/<br class="">List Archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx<br class=""> https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/<br class="">TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/<br class="">List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>