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Latest news 2024-09-23: new blog post "Tales for Our Times: Raising Funds and Awareness for St Martins Housing Trust".

B.31 You can't use `macro parameter character #' in horizontal mode

You have used the special character # where you shouldn't have. Recall from §4.3. Special Characters and Symbols that if you want a # sign to appear you need to do \# not just #.

This error message will be caused by doing, say,


Item #1
instead of

Item \#1


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