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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label nonum</title>
</head><body>
-<h3>&ldquo;Missing number, treated as zero&rdquo;</h3>
-<p/>In general, this means you&rsquo;ve tried to assign something to a count,
-dimension or skip register that isn&rsquo;t (in TeX&rsquo;s view of things) a
+<h3>&#8220;Missing number, treated as zero&#8221;</h3>
+<p/>In general, this means you&#8217;ve tried to assign something to a count,
+dimension or skip register that isn&#8217;t (in TeX&#8217;s view of things) a
number. Usually the problem will become clear using the
<a href="FAQ-erroradvice.html">ordinary techniques of examining errors</a>.
<p/>Two LaTeX-specific errors are commonly aired on the newsgroups.
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ number. Usually the problem will become clear using the
exemplified by the following error text:
<pre>
! Missing number, treated as zero.
-&lt;to be read again&gt;
+&#60;to be read again&#62;
\relax
l.21 \begin{Ventry}{Return values}
</pre>
The problem arises because, in its first edition, the
-<em>Companion</em>&rsquo;s examples always assumed that the <i>calc</i>
+<em>Companion</em>&#8217;s examples always assumed that the <i>calc</i>
package is loaded: this fact is mentioned in the book, but often not
noticed. The remedy is to load the <i>calc</i> package in any
document using such examples from the <em>Companion</em>. (The problem
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ has no equivalent in LaTeX2e. The obvious solution is to rewrite
the paths so that LaTeX 2.09 packages are chosen only as a last resort
so that the startlingly simple LaTeX2e <i>times</i> package will
be picked up. Better still is to replace the whole thing with
-something more modern still; current <i>psnfss</i> doesn&rsquo;t provide
-a <i>times</i> package &mdash; the alternative <i>mathptmx</i>
+something more modern still; current <i>psnfss</i> doesn&#8217;t provide
+a <i>times</i> package &#8212; the alternative <i>mathptmx</i>
incorporates <i>Times</i>-like mathematics, and a sans-serif face
based on <i>Helvetica</i>, but scaled to match <i>Times</i>
text rather better.
<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>calc.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>calc.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/calc.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>Examples for LaTeX Companion</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/examples/tlc2.zip">info/examples/tlc2</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/examples/tlc2/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>The psnfss bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss.zip">macros/latex/required/psnfss</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss/">browse the directory</a>)
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