Re: Length specs getting mangled in TeX output

Subject: Re: Length specs getting mangled in TeX output
From: Matthias Clasen <clasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 22:12:20 +0200
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> 
> 	16pt        becomes:        {16\p@}
> 
> Can anybody enlighten me? Pointers to relevant documentation would be
> fine, if such exists.

This should be the tex backend, right ? 
16\p@ is the LaTeX way of saving a bit of macro space and execution time 
compared to 16pt (16\p@ is three tokens, while 16pt is four tokens...)

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