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From: em@dce.ie (Eamonn McManus)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: making characters active
Message-ID: <braceyourself@dce.ie>
Date: 27 Mar 91 12:27:27 GMT
References: <DOMEN.91Mar25145654@euler.crin.fr> <1991Mar25.201912.25816@csrd.uiuc.edu>
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eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
>>    \def\makeactive#1#2{\catcode`\#1=\active \let#1{#2}}
>
>\catcode`#1=\active \tempcount=\uccode`\~
>\uccode`\~=`#1 \uppercase{\let~}{#2}
>\uccode`\~=\tempcount

Also, it's worth noting that \let#1{#2} is probably not what you want,
since it will set #1 to be the same as { (like \bgroup).  Presumably
\def#1{#2} is what's intended.

,
Eamonn