[texhax] chktex, are it's reports any good?

Susan Dittmar Susan.Dittmar at gmx.de
Wed Apr 19 12:13:01 CEST 2017


Am 19.04.2017 um 02:22 schrieb David Niklas:
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 13:31:55 +1200
>> On 16/04/17 12:50, great123456 at mail.com wrote:
>>> # Don't all commands end with a space?  
>>
>> No.  None do, really.
> Then how do they end?
> Still kinda lost on this one.

A command ends at the point where anything other than a command starts.
A space is one such possibility and perfectly fine.

The warning has more to do with a common mistake TeX-newbies make. Many
users tend to forget that space after a command is very likely to be
gobbled up. So this warning should perhaps read "in case you expect a
space in output at this point, you forgot to explicitly tell TeX so".

Susan


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