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Date:         Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:44:37 +0200
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From:         David Kastrup <dak@GNU.ORG>
Subject: Re: Using d<> and babel with option spanish
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In-Reply-To:  <CALD=Yf_Qn4av1BbUzVgg_LtRS7JW_cOngjHHCyxbOn7g-2rs4g@mail.gmail.com> (Jonathan Fine's message of "Fri, 21
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Jonathan Fine <jfine2358@GMAIL.COM> writes:

> Hi
>
> Early on, LaTeX sets basic character codes. Perhaps if, at the same
> time, it also executed
>
>     \catcode`<13
>     \expandafter\let\expandafter<\string <
>
> then Benedikt 's problem would go way. Or could more easily be solved.
>
> I don't see any fundamental reason why this would not work.

I did not expect this suggestion from the author of ActiveTeX.

ERROR: Missing = inserted for \ifnum.

--- TeX said ---
<to be read again> 
                   <
l.3 \message{\ifnum2<
                     3 good\else bad\fi}
--- HELP ---
From the .log file...

I was expecting to see `<', `=', or `>'. Didn't.


Were you thinking of

\edef<{\string<}

instead?

-- 
David Kastrup