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Tarjei T. Jensen writes
   Could LaTeX 3 use a different escape character than backslash (e.g. @ ) and
   reserve backslash for compatibility with LaTeX 2.09? Or is @ used in so many
   places already as an ordinary character that it could not be replaced by say,
   the underscore?

This would mean that there would be two escape characters around, for
old LaTeXers would never change that in their documents. Besides @ is
traditionally used in the names of internal LaTeX macros that are not
accessible by the end user.

But why change the good old \ anyway?

   // Tarjei T. Jensen - if it ain't broken, fix it anyway!

Ah, I see.

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