Re: Some Questions [Newbie]

blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

In article <4454e196$0$14792$4fafbaef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
fctk <x@xxx> wrote:
2) In paragraph 1.3.3 the author says the curly braces after the name of
a command as in \command{} should be used to avoid `command' from
"eating" the following whitespace characters. But those curly braces are
the same that are used for listing the mandatory parameters of a command
or they are a different thing?

A question for the experts: I have used a trailing "\" for this,
e.g., "\LaTeX\". The trailing curly brackets are preferred?

"\LaTeX\ ". Note the space at the end. "\ " sets a regular interword
space. "{}" is not free of unwanted side effects.

3) Where should I put the following commands: pagestyle, usepackage,
syntaxonly, ... ? In the preamble or in the body? Is there a reference
resource for this kind of doubt?

Preamble.

\usepackage (LaTeX base) and \syntaxonly (package syntonly) are
marked to be used in the preamble only.
However \pagestyle is not restricted to the preamble.

Yours sincerely
Heiko <oberdiek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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