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In OmniMark, the names of built-in variables begin with the pound ("#") character. In rare cases, you may need to define your own variables that contain a pound. This may happen when an OmniMark program is generated from another source and you do not have control over the variable names.
To prevent confusion with built-in variables, programmer-defined variable names that contain a "#" must be quoted. This is the only circumstance in which a quoted variable name refers to a variable different from the unquoted variable name.
Format items that apply to variables contain the variable name they are formatting. An extra set of quotation marks is not permitted inside a format item, so OmniMark provides an alternate method of differentiating between a programmer-defined name containing a "#" and a built-in variable. To reference the programmer-defined variable name inside a format item, the pound character ("#") must be escaped.
Programmer-defined variable names containing "#" characters are almost always unnecessary, and their use is deprecated.
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