On 21 May 2014, at 00:12, Heiko Oberdiek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > there is some discussion of `\endlinechar' in the chat > http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends > > * David Carlisle detects that \endlinechar has only one > negative value `-1’ True, but that is just an implementation detail. > * \endlinechar has an upper limit of 127. What is the reason > for this constraint? Because some of the internals are still byte-oriented, especially the ones that deal with file-io. The constraint is meant to be lifted somewhere before 1.0 Best wishes, Taco
