Re: options

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Ramana Kumar <address@hidden> skribis:

> The user's guide says
>
>> Options come immediately after the main symbol, before any following
>> object.
>>
> but it looks like various symbols including @Font,  @Break, and @Colour
> take options before the main symbol.
> Am I correct? Maybe what those commands take aren't options but something
> else...

You’re right, but I think “options” here is to be understood as “named
parameters”:

  Each [option] consists of the option name followed by the value we
  want the option to have

Conversely, left and right parameters are nameless, so they are not
what’s referred to in this paragraph.

Thanks,
Ludo’.