>>>>> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> In a sense it it an accnt
>>
>> \not\eq /=
>>
>> it adds the '/' over the small math operators, to reverse meaning.
Andre> But you can't have it over more than one char, i.e. \not{aa}
Andre> does not go over both a's, whereas \vec{aa} goes over both a -
Andre> or am I completely mistaken?
It seems (from my experiments) that math accents are more like macros
that real TeX accents: \vec{aa} or \acute{aa} apply the accent over
the two characters, while for example \'{aa} in text mode applies the
accent to the first a (using the TeX \accent primitive).
So it seems that it was a mistake in mathed to have a special
treatment for accents (If I remember well they are not parsed like
macros).
So \not is indeed very different from math mode accents.
Note that this comes from experimentation and a bit of poking into
latex sources. Somebody competent in plain TeX could maybe correct me.
JMarc
