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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label atsigns</title>
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<h3><code>\</code><code>@</code> and <code>@</code> in macro names</h3>
-<p>Macro names containing <code>@</code> are <em>internal</em> to LaTeX, and
+<p/>Macro names containing <code>@</code> are <em>internal</em> to LaTeX, and
without special treatment just don&rsquo;t work in ordinary use. A nice
example of the problems caused is discussed in
<a href="FAQ-atvert.html"><code>\</code><code>@</code> in vertical mode</a>&rdquo;.
-<p>The problems users see are caused by copying bits of a class
+<p/>The problems users see are caused by copying bits of a class
(<code>.cls</code> file) or
package (<code>.sty</code> file) into a document, or by including a class or
package file into a LaTeX document by some means other than
@@ -16,14 +16,16 @@ avoid clashes between its internal names and names that we would
normally use in our documents. In order that these commands may work
at all, <code>\</code><code>documentclass</code> and <code>\</code><code>usepackage</code> play around with the
meaning of <code>@</code>.
-<p>If you&rsquo;ve included a file wrongly, you solve the problem by using the
-correct command.
-<p>If you&rsquo;re using a fragment of a package or class, you may well feel
+<p/>If you&rsquo;ve included a file some other way (for example, using
+<code>\</code><code>input</code>), you can probablysolve the problem by using the correct
+command.
+<p/>If you&rsquo;re using a fragment of a package or class, you may well feel
confused: books such as the first edition of the
<a href="FAQ-books.html">The LaTeX Companion</a>
are full of fragments of packages as examples for you to employ.
-This problem has been solved in the second edition, and in addition,
-all the examples from the <em>Companion</em> are now available on-line.
+The second edition of the <em>Companion</em> makes clearer how you
+should use these fragments, and in addition, the code of
+all the examples is now available on CTAN.
To see the technique in practice, look at the example below, from file
<i>2-2-7.ltx</i> in the <em>Companion</em> examples directory:
<blockquote>
@@ -39,12 +41,12 @@ To see the technique in practice, look at the example below, from file
</blockquote><p>
(That example appears on page 29 of <em>The LaTeX Companion</em>,
second edition.)
-<p>The alternative is to treat all these fragments as a package proper,
+<p/>The alternative is to treat all these fragments as a package proper,
bundling them up into a <code>.sty</code> file and including them with
<code>\</code><code>usepackage</code>; this way you hide your LaTeX internal code somewhere
that LaTeX internal code is expected, which often looks &lsquo;tidier&rsquo;.
<dl>
<dt><tt><i>Examples from the Companion</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/examples/tlc2.zip">info/examples/tlc2</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/examples/tlc2.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/examples/tlc2/">browse</a>)
</dl>
-<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=atsigns">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=atsigns</a>
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=atsigns">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=atsigns</a>
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