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diff --git a/doc/user/ap_byp b/doc/user/ap_byp index 18ee641..002f439 100644 --- a/doc/user/ap_byp +++ b/doc/user/ap_byp @@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ @PP The `bypass' symbols described in this appendix are intended to be bypass.symbols @Index { bypass symbols } -used only in Lout which is generated by computer programs. Their -purpose is to bypass the Lout cross reference database, and so reduce -the number of passes needed to finalise a document. These symbols -should not be used by people, because that would only lead back to the +used in Lout which is generated by computer programs. Their purpose +is to bypass the Lout cross reference database, and so reduce the +number of passes needed to finalise a document. These symbols are not +intended to be used by people, because that would only lead back to the consistency problems that prompted the introduction of cross references in the first place. @PP @@ -52,9 +52,10 @@ use the @Code "@BypassNumber" option: Give the full `path number' (5.2, B.3 or whatever) of the symbol. There is a @Code "@BypassNumber" option for every symbol that has a @Code "@Title" option and is usually assigned a number automatically by Lout, plus -@Code "@Figure" and {@Code "@Table"}. No changes to the setup file are -required in order to use {@Code "@BypassNumber"}, and it is permitted -for some large-scale structure symbols to have this option and others not. +{@Code "@Figure"}, {@Code "@Table"}, and (since Version 3.36) the numbered +display symbols. No changes to the setup file are required in order to use +{@Code "@BypassNumber"}, and it is permitted for some large-scale structure +symbols to have this option and others not. @PP To produce a bypass reference list, set the @Code "@MakeReferences" setup file option to @Code "Bypass" and place reference entries at the |