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Punctuation

There are several uses of punctuation in addition to those previously discussed. All punctuations are summarized below.

  1. = separate result field from arguments and functions or rename a result as in s1 = 10000 = 1001 base.
  2. tex2html_wrap_inline1103 continue a command to a second line
  3. " " quotes to enclose a comment field
  4. ? to query and reset constants associated with previous operator
  5. TO fill in all arguments between the preceeding number and the following one
  6. tex2html_wrap_inline1051 repeat the last number used as the argument in a command. This number may be incremented by n using tex2html_wrap_inline1051 +n or decremented by n using tex2html_wrap_inline1051 -n.
  7. : collate groups of arguments on the command line. Each group must contain the same number of arguments. When this operator precedes a function of type n tex2html_wrap_inline1039 1 or n tex2html_wrap_inline1039 n, the number of arguments upon which the function will operate is given by the number of argument groups. The number of times the function will repeat is given by the size of the groups.
  8. BY N reinterpret argument list into groups of size N. The number of arguments must be divisible by N. When this operator precedes a function of type n tex2html_wrap_inline1039 1 or n tex2html_wrap_inline1039 n, the number of arguments upon which the function operates is given by N. The number of times the function is repeated is given by the size of the argument list divided by N.
  9. ; command string delimeter. This operator can be used to enter several command strings on one line. The command strings will be executed sequentially as if these had been entered one at a time.


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