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Article #1743Re: Why is there no seperator in TeX/LaTeX
From: Raymond CHEN
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 1990 15:30
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 1990 15:30
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In article <FJ.90Aug20121003@pink.iesd.auc.dk> fj@iesd.auc.dk (Frank Jensen) writes:
>Why not try "\catcode`\-=11" ? (I haven't tested it.) It will screw up
>$\alpha-z$ though ...
It screws up much more. If you have to give TeX a negative number,
the catcode of the minus sign must be 12. So not only can't you say
"\hskip-\parindent" (since it'll get parsed wrong), you can't
even say "\hskip -\parindent" because the catcode of the `\- is wrong.
--
Common TeXhacker mistake #15: Forgetting to say \expandafter in
\expandafter\def\csname sf2451\endcsname{...}
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uunet!microsoft!t-rayc From: t-rayc@microsoft.UUCP (Raymond CHEN) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Why is there no seperator in TeX/LaTeX Message-ID: <56781@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 21 Aug 90 15:30:10 GMT References: <1990Aug16.214657.16764@sctc.com> <6433@milton.u.washington.edu> <FJ.90Aug20121003@pink.iesd.auc.dk> Reply-To: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 13