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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dolldoll.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dolldoll.html index a8a2eef7595..5c1c9bfffad 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dolldoll.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dolldoll.html @@ -2,20 +2,20 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label dolldoll</title> </head><body> <h3>Why use <code>\</code><code>[</code> ...<code>\</code><code>]</code> in place of <code>$$</code> ...<code>$$</code>?</h3> -<p>LaTeX defines inline- and display-maths commands, apparently +<p/>LaTeX defines inline- and display-maths commands, apparently analagous to those that derive from the TeX primitive maths sequences bracketing maths commands with single dollar signs (or pairs of dollar signs). -<p>As it turns out, LaTeX’s inline maths grouping, +<p/>As it turns out, LaTeX’s inline maths grouping, <code>\</code><code>(</code><code> ... </code><code>\</code><code>)</code>, has precisely the same effect as the TeX primitive version <code>$ ... $</code>. (Except that the LaTeX version checks to ensure you don’t put <code>\</code><code>(</code> and <code>\</code><code>)</code> the wrong way round.) -<p>In this circumstance, one often finds LaTeX users, who have some +<p/>In this circumstance, one often finds LaTeX users, who have some experience of using Plain TeX, merely assuming that LaTeX’s display maths grouping <code>\</code><code>[</code><code> ... </code><code>\</code><code>]</code> may be replaced by the TeX primitive display maths <code>$$ ... $$</code>. -<p>Unfortunately, they are wrong: if LaTeX code is going to patch display +<p/>Unfortunately, they are wrong: if LaTeX code is going to patch display maths, it can only do so by patching <code>\</code><code>[</code> and <code>\</code><code>]</code>. The most obvious way this turns up, is that the class option <code>fleqn</code> simply does not work for equations coded using @@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ alone, or using package <i>amsmath</i>. Also, the <code>\</code><code>[</code> cases; that code is not available in <code>$$ ... $$</code>, so if you use the non-standard version, you may occasionally observe inconsistent vertical spacing . -<p>There are more subtle effects (especially with package +<p/>There are more subtle effects (especially with package <i>amsmath</i>), and the simple rule is <code>\</code><code>[</code><code> ... </code><code>\</code><code>]</code> whenever unadorned displayed maths is needed in LaTeX. -<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dolldoll">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dolldoll</a> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dolldoll">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dolldoll</a> </body> |