[texhax] Weirder and weirder

[Michael Doob]

On Monday 16 August 2010 4:14 pm, Michael Barr wrote:
> In connection with the question I raised about revtex a couple days ago, I 
> would ask texhaxxers to explain the following behaviour, which has nothing 
> to do with revtex.  First, examine the following and try to predict the 
> results.  Then run it and see the actual ones.
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \showthe\textfont0
> \setbox0=\hbox{x}
> \showthe\textfont0
> \showthe\textfont2
> \setbox0=\hbox{$x$}
> \showthe\textfont2
> \showthe\textfont0
> \begin{document}
> \end{document}

>From the log file:

  > \nullfont .
  l.2 \showthe\textfont0

  ?
  > \nullfont .
  l.4 \showthe\textfont0

  ?
  > \nullfont .
  l.5 \showthe\textfont2

  ?
  LaTeX Font Info:    External font `cmex10' loaded for size
  (Font)              <7> on input line 6.
  LaTeX Font Info:    External font `cmex10' loaded for size
  (Font)              <5> on input line 6.
  > \OMS/cmsy/m/n/10 .
  l.7 \showthe\textfont2

  ?
  > \OT1/cmr/m/n/10 .
  l.8 \showthe\textfont0

Looks OK to me.

Cheers,
Michael

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