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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 address@hidden wrote:
> I am looking the the TeX logo macro in std-markup.ts.  I want to play
> around with it.  I Noticed that the actual definition of the TeX Logo
> with things like the <space|> primitive, move, resize etc is hidden by
> default.

In this particular case, yes.

> This must be caused by the <active*|> keyword.  Although this primitive
> is undocumented, I can guess that it has to do with activating its
> argument.  Can someone please tell me what the difference is between
> active and active*?

Did you read all recent documentation about writing style files?

> I tried to remove the active* word by moving my cursor right before the
> the "macro" word and right before the "TeX" logo itself and tried to do
> a Source->Activation->Disactivate, but to my surprise the Disactive
> option was disabled.

In order to remove the "active*" primitive, you should rather use
structured deletion (A-backspace).

I agree that we need more documentation about such issues,
but since I seem to be the only one who is willing to write some...

> The <space|>  primitive takes -0.4spc.  How many picas or points is 1 spc 
> unit?

That depends on the font. This length unit corresponds to one space in
the  default font

> There are other units like 0.5fn.  What does fn stand for?

Please search on the Wiki: David Allouche wrote a detailed page
about length units.

> It also says <with|math-level|0|E>  Can I have some explanation of the 
> math-level variable?

It corresponds to the index level (0: normal text, 1: indexes, 2: subindexes).