[XeTeX] dealing with $ character

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Jul 7, 2004, at 12:08 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

>> Following from previous discussion, is there a way that I can get TeX 
>> to accept the $ character without having to do \$?  My source is XML, 
>> so it's not convenient to modify there, or in the XSLT.
>
> \catcode`\$=12

Thanks Hans, but this -- in the preamble -- doesn't seem to work.  Is 
there something else I need to do?

I just want to be able to typeset "$4000".

Bruce