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- Subject: re: tex variable names
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- Date: 06 Nov 1992 10:02:14 -0500 (EST)
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- ivan derzhanski asks (comp.text.tex, november 5) if the proper term
- isn't "control sequence"? `or are control sequences a subset of
- control words?'
-
- the right idea, but backwards.
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- a control sequence is anything that begins with a backslash (or
- other character catcoded as an escape character).
-
- a control word is an escape character followed by one or more letters,
- up to the next non-letter.
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- a control symbol is an escape character followed by a single non-letter.
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- (i am ignoring active characters, which function as control sequences.)
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- all the "control ..." terms are listed in the index of the texbook.
- look 'em up.
- -- bb
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