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From: dorai@titan.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: tabbing; ligatures
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Date: 14 Aug 90 16:00:24 GMT
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O.  If the following have been asked before, I apologize.

I.  Is there a way to allow the LaTeX tabbing environment to accept
more \='s before screaming tab overflow?  (I have a computer-generated
and ergo inscrutable tabbing environment, so I wouldn't want to mess
with it manually to remove possible excess tabs.)

II.  Most modes in La/TeX convert some canonical 2-or-more character
sequences (not beginning with \) into "ligatures": ff, fi, fl, ffi,
ffl, --, ---.  The question is: How can I create ligatures of my own?
The FM tantalizingly says that "such changes aren't extremely
difficult" and but doesn't expand.  

III.  Thanks \in advance.

--d