[texhax] help with bug in NAR.cls

[Thomas Schneider]

Vladimir:

> {L}ong-Sheng should work too (tried on my minimal example).

Ok.

> IMHO, it is best to report to package maintainers about that.

Long-Sheng did that.  I cc'd them my message.

> P.S. I'm not a TeX expert, there are more qualified persons on this ML
> but seems that command: `\authorfont' causes the trouble. This its
> definition in NAR.cls:
> 
> \def\authorfont{\reset at font\fontfamily{\sfdefault}\fontsize{12}{14}\fontseries{b}\selectfont\leftskip0pt\rightskip0pt
> plus1fill}
> 
> because it is used like
> 
> {\authorfont\@author\par}
> 
> If I add `\relax' at end of command, right after `plus1fill' I get `L'
> in output without tricks. But I'm not sure if it is the "right" way.
> 
> AFAIK, the l|L is gobbled by `plus1fill' (TeX looks for next letter sees
> L and thinks it is for 'fill' instruction).
> 
> But there may be other solutions.

Thanks for the starter tips.

Tom

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