[texhax] \input

Michael Doob mdoob at ccu.umanitoba.ca
Wed Sep 24 17:38:08 CEST 2008


On Wednesday 24 September 2008 9:08 am, Chris Rowley wrote:
> Michael
> 
> > I know that \input is a macro in LaTeX.  Nonetheless, through some magic I 
> > have never tried to track down, both
> > \input diagxy
> > and
> > \input{diagxy}
> > both give the same result.
> 
> Aaaah yes, now you have to: master the 7th level 6 times; ave 5 million guldern in your
> treasure chest; and have Power 4 eyes before you are even allowed to
> read that bit of the code!

Or you can observe that the definition of \input start with 
@\ifnextchar\bgroup
and branches accordingly :-).

Cheers,
Michael

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