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From: t-rayc@microsoft.UUCP (Raymond CHEN)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Why is there no seperator in TeX/LaTeX
Message-ID: <56781@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 90 15:30:10 GMT
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In article <FJ.90Aug20121003@pink.iesd.auc.dk> fj@iesd.auc.dk (Frank Jensen) writes:
>Why not try "\catcode`\-=11" ? (I haven't tested it.)  It will screw up
>$\alpha-z$ though ...

It screws up much more.  If you have to give TeX a negative number, 
the catcode of the minus sign must be 12.  So not only can't you say 
"\hskip-\parindent" (since it'll get parsed wrong), you can't
even say "\hskip -\parindent" because the catcode of the `\- is wrong.

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Common TeXhacker mistake #15:  Forgetting to say \expandafter in

		\expandafter\def\csname sf2451\endcsname{...}