Questions tagged [catcodes]
{catcodes} is about "category codes" — an integer number from 0–15 associated to each of the 256 character codes. The category codes indicate the role of a character.
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amsart + \makeatletter + @ @ @ in a caption = disappear
In some circumstance adding @ into the caption will cause it to disappear.
This can be solved by adding \makeatother at proper places.
I just want to know why is this happening.
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Efficiently setting category code for a range of characters
I kept thinking about using Cyrillic characters in command names with PDFTeX engine. It looks to me so far that if I stay with 8-bit encoding and assign category code 11 to all Cyrillic letters ...
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Extra space in menukey’s directory output with 'bslash' sep
A user of menukeys reported (GutHub issue #48) that there is an extra space before hyphens in a directory sequence, when the input separator is a back slash:
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Deactivating an active character
How do I deactivate an active character? The following works without the activizations in the preamble, but not with them, in spite of my attempt to reset the catcode of : to 12.
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remove pipe chars in latex doc
My Doxygen project generate latex files. I can have a custom LaTeX header, but beyond that I don't have much control over the LaTeX content generated by Doxygen.
Unfortunately the table formatting in ...
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How are class, package, document writers using modifications to \catcode
I'm thinking that the primary uses of changing \catcode in LaTeX are to:
enable “private” macros (e.g., \makeatletter ... \@foo ... \makeatother or the expl3 syntax
allow for verbatim-like commands/...
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How to make brackets work like group separators?
I know that the following is not something you are usually supposed to do, but I ask anyway: I am getting quite tired of the fact that TeX does not treat the content of brackets [...] as groups like {....
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Pasting a long text with many special characters into Latex
I want to paste a long text with many special characters (&,...) into my Latex doc.
Is there any command to tell Latex to parse this text as it is, rather than parsing it as a Latex source?
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