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From: ralph	 (Ralph P. Sobek)
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Subject: Re: 8 bit characters in (La)TeX
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Date: 11 Jan 90 17:29:40 GMT
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In article <1990Jan9.234455.18978@cs.rochester.edu> ken@cs.rochester.edu writes:
|  Yes, in TeX 3.0.

Yes, better integrated.  But, I've already seen such in TeX 2.9.  From
a local TeX file I have the following:

\lccode`=` \uccode`=` \lccode`=` \uccode`=`

\def\"#1{{\accent"7F #1\penalty10000\hskip 0pt plus 0pt}}

\catcode`=\active \def{\"a}
\catcode`=\active \def{\"A}

Or is this just a kludge?  I'm not the TeXie that wrote this.


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