Re: Length specs getting mangled in TeX output

[Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

/ Matt Gushee <mgushee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
| 	16pt        becomes:        {16\p@}

Is it causing problems? I've forgotten the details (it's in the
TeXBook somewhere), but defining macros for units of measure
makes some calculations go faster or use less memory or
something, so \p@ is 1pt and 16\p@ is 16pt.

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm

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