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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: how to make "_" non-special?
Keywords: \active, \_, underscore, subscript
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.000807.18918@csrd.uiuc.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 91 00:08:07 GMT
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marcel@cs.caltech.edu (Marcel van der Goot) writes:

>In <8763@star.cs.vu.nl> Fred Douglis (douglis@cs.vu.nl) asks

>> Can anyone tell me what magic might be necessary to redefine "_" to
>> have its normal meaning?

>If you always want to use an _ as just an _, you can say

>	\catcode`\_=13
>	\let_=\_

That's a tad better than what I suggested.

>If you also want to write subscripts now and then, you can make " into
>a subscript character by saying

>	\catcode`\"=13

The 13 should be 8.

>					Marcel van der Goot
>					marcel@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu
Netherlands rule!

Victor.