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Need add a space before character in changing category of character?
At the bottom of page 307 of The TeXbook, it says
TEX always reads the token following a constant before evaluating that constant.
So,
{\catcode‘\>=2 >
is different from
{\catcode\`>=2>
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How to make brackets work like group separators?
I know that the following is not something you are usually supposed to do, but I ask anyway: I am getting quite tired of the fact that TeX does not treat the content of brackets [...] as groups like {....
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Environment that treats words or groups as command arguments
How can I define an environment that would treat each word or group as an argument of a function?
I am writing a handbook that contains calculator entries, which I would like to typeset as buttons. ...
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Is a left brace implicit or explicit in assignments, and what should its category code be?
I'm trying to understand what exactly a TeX assignment is according to the TeXbook (Addison-Wesley 1996), as specified on pp. 275-278.
On p. 275 it is stated that an assignment is one of two ...
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A simple implementation of comment/verbatim: drawbacks?
While considering how to exclude \items in Yossi Farjoun's recently active question onlyitems? How to select specific items from an item list, I thought I would do what I proposed in my first answer: ...
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