On Nov 15, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > > > Arthur Reutenauer wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:20:17PM +0000, Philip TAYLOR wrote: >>> No ! "A catcode is for life, not just for Christmas" ! Once a >>> character has been read, and bound into a character/catcode pair, >>> that catcode remains immutable. >> >> Do you mean that as a general good practice in TeX programming, or as >> a description of how TeX works? The latter is obviously wrong. > > "The latter" is what the TeXbok says (P.~39) : "Once a category code > has been attached to a character token, the attachment is permanent." > > ** Phil.
Howdy, What happens in a verbatim environment? Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
