[texhax] Puzzling (La)TeX output

[Justin C. Walker]

On May 4, 2006, at 14:52 , Barbara Beeton wrote:

>     I tripped over this and can't explain it; I hope someone here will
>     show me what I am missing:
>
>     Using this source:
>
>     =====
>     \newcommand{\dx}{\rm dx}
>
>     $\Phi(\dx_i)=dx_i$.
>     =====
>
> the braces get stripped off the expansion of the
> command, so the \rm isn't scoped

D'oh!  I knew that.  Growl.

Thanks for the clue!

Regards,

Justin

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