Enrico Forestieri schrieb:

>> If you are sure that there is at least one catcode greater than 128 is 
>> classified as something other than catOther, I'll do the change. But 
>> from what I read about TeX catcode since then, I doubt it.
> 
> Maybe you are right as, from what I can see, only the catcode of '@' is
> ever changed in the LyX sources. However, if proper support for catcodes
> will be implemented, we should mimic what TeX does, and TeX can deal
> with 256 characters and not 128 as the comment you added implies -- please
> change that. Quoting the very beginning of chapter 7 in the TeXbook:
> 
>   There are 256 characters that TeX might encounter at each step,
>   in a file or in a line of text typed directly on your terminal.
>   These 256 characters are classified into 16 categories numbered
>   0 to 15.
> 
> I think that we should leave the 256, but if you and others don't agree,
> then please also make the corresponding changes to texparser.C

only the characters 0,13,32,35-38,65-90,92,94,95,97-123,125-127
have a catcode other than 12. All others from the 256 possible
ones have 12.

Herbert

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