On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 11:52:48PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:

> Enrico Forestieri schrieb:
> > On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 09:31:45PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
> > 
> >> no, do it without a caption ... There is no _correct_ way.
> >> A command shouldn't be used as environemtn. That's correct.
> >> Independant from that it works sometimes ...
> > 
> > However, it is clearly documented in the LaTeX book by Lamport that
> > to every declaration corresponds an environment whose name is
> > the same as the declaration's name without the \. With this
> > exact wording. In this context, a declaration is a macro which
> > doesn't produce output. So \centering, \em, \it, etc. all fall
> > under this case and it is legal using them as if they were environments.
> 
> no, it is not! should I show you another example where you get the wrong
> spacing, when using \begin{tiny} ... \end{tiny}??

Yes, please. I always am eager for knowledge. So, the LaTeX book is
worng in this regard... Eh, Lamport != Knuth, apparently ;-)

> But I see, it is senseless ...

Don't know what you mean here.

-- 
Enrico

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