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Copying and pasting identifiers in PDF output

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As is decently well known, plain TeX's “underscore” character is actually ``` {\leavevmode \kern.06em \vbox{\hrule width.3em}} ``` It looks nice enough, but when copying and pasting text that has an...

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CWEB 4.8 breaks MMIX.

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DEK uses the curious construct ``` function declaration with ARGS macro;@+@t}\6{@> function definition without ARGS macro but K&R parameters ``` in MMIX modules `mmixal.w`, `mmix-arith.w`, `mmix-config.w`, `mmix-io.w`, `mmix-mem.w`, `mmix-sim.w`, and...

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C code like ``` if (...) whatever; else if (...) whatever; else break; ``` shows that **break** is a tad further apart from **else** than the **if** right above.

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``` % put a mark in the left margin. (see Exercise 14.28 in The TeXbook) \def\leftmark#1{\strut\vadjust{\vbox to 0pt {\vskip-\baselineskip\moveleft 1em\llap{\bf #1\strut}\vss}}\ignorespaces} ``` See file `tex.ch` from package [`tex-fpc`](https://ctan.org/pkg/tex-fpc). I've changed...

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