[tex-live] fwd: \delta in overfull \hboxes screws up xterm

[David Kastrup]

Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> writes:

> Olaf Weber wrote:
> 
> >(And I believe I'm entitled to a small "I told you so" as I did try to
> >point this out during previous rounds of this discussion.)
> >  
> -) i'm aware of the internal mapping that tex does, but i just
>  wondered where this anomality originates esp since i know of no other
>  system that uses ^^ for escaping; maybe that was normal 25 years ago

It never was, but single ^ signs already have a different meaning in
TeX.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum