2011/10/7 Reinhard Kotucha <[email protected]>: > On 2011-10-06 at 23:49:56 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > In either case it makes no sense IMO to give non-letter characters > > a letter catcode. > > A catcode 11 does *not* mean that a character is a letter. It means > that it's allowed in control sequence names.
Indeed, and therefore category 11 is roughly equivalent to the Unicode properties ID_Start and/or ID_Continue. > I don't think catcodes > are the right thing in order to determine where to apply italic > correction. I totally agree. The distinction that LuaTeX makes between 11 and 12 is very surprising and not in line of traditional TeX behavior.
