(eplain.info)Programming definitions
7 Programming definitions
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The definitions in this section are only likely to be useful when you
are writing nontrivial macros, not when writing a document.
Category codes- Changing category codes.
- Allocation macros
- Non-outer versions of \newcount et al.
- Iteration
- Doing 'for' and 'while' loops in TeX.
- Macro arguments
- Reading and ignoring them.
- Converting to characters
- Normalizing control sequences and spaces.
- Expansion
- Controlling expansion.
- Obeying spaces
- Making whitespace count anywhere.
- Writing out numbers
- Making '1' into 'one'.
- Mode-specific penalties
- Auxiliary files
- Testing for their existence.
- User-defined environments
- User-defined environments.
- Page list and page range parsers
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