[texhax] (La)TeX syntax

[Jeroen Wijnhout]

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Hartmut Henkel wrote:

> Read the TeXbook, section 7. This describes the character categories.
> The TeXbook source texbook.tex is available online from CTAN.
>
> About LaTeX read the original source, the latex.ltx file, part of teTeX.
>
> Generally commands are ended by non-letters. Their catcode is, well, not
> the letter catcode (11).
>
> Multiple whitespaces are counted as one. By default line ends (^^M) are
> counted as just another whitespace.
>
> Greetings Hartmut
>
>

The TeXbook appears to be very useful, the latex.ltx is a little bit
harder to read though.

thanks,
Jeroen