[tex-k] TeXbook: typo in answer to exercise 20.7
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Thu May 16 00:40:56 CEST 2019
In TeXbook, answer to exercise 20.7, it is written that TeX says:
Can you send me your test input file please?
which is different from {
You left off the previous and following bits of the sentence (on page
329) which make it make sense:
... [_1, which is different from {_1 ...
(where ASCII "_" means a typeset subscript).
Knuth is explaining that a left-bracket character with catcode 1
is different from a left-brace character with catcode 1, as far as
argument delimiters go. This is not true for all catcodes, as he also
explains. --thanks, karl.
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