[texhax] Superstitions

[Uwe Ziegenhagen]

2011/4/23 Gordon Haverland <ghaverla at materialisations.com>

> I don't suppose there is some easy way to deal with superstitions
> in LaTeX?  I looked around CTAN a bit, and nothing jumped out at
> me.
>
> I suspect the company I am doing work for is superstitious, or
> customers are.  But I ran across an enumerated list where there is
> no 13'th element.  What I've done is:
>
>    13) Purposely blank.
>
> But is there something else that is more universal?
>
> Gord
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You're kidding, aren't you?

If you are *really not* kidding I suppose the way to go would be to check in
an enumerate list if you are at the thirteenth element and insert the "13)
Purposely blank" item.

Uwe

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Uwe Ziegenhagen
<http://www.uweziegenhagen.de>
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