On Nov 15, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > > > Herbert Schulz wrote: > >>> "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. > >> What happens in a verbatim environment? > > The verbatim environment sets up an environment within > which characters that have not yet been seen by TeX's > mouth receive category codes that potentially differ > from the category code that would normally be associated > with that character. Once the category code has been > bound to a particular instance of that character, that > instance never changes its catcode. > > ** Phil.
Howdy, So what you are saying is not that you can't control the catcode of a particular character but that you can't change it after it is set and in TeX's ``stomach.'' That I can agree with. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
