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- From: carlip@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Walter C3arlip)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Question: What to do about linefeeds?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.060810.7717@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 06:08:10 GMT
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- Organization: Ohio University Mathematics
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- Ok, here's a dumb question.
- One of my colleagues is using TeX on two platforms: Macintosh and
- (yuk) IBM-pc. Evidently, the IBM-pc likes Carriage-Return *and*
- Linefeed at the end of each line, and when he ports the files to
- the mac, the linefeeds appear as characters in the file and TeX
- hates them.
-
- I suggested inserting the line:
- \catcode`^^J=9
- to tell TeX to just ignore the linefeeds, but this did not seem
- to help. Anyone know why? Is there an elegant solution to this
- problem? Is there any reason that IBM-pc's behave in such an anti-social
- manner?
-
- Thanks,
-
- --Walter
-
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