[OS X TeX] typing em dash (---)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 16.09.2013 um 22:28 schrieb Herbert Schulz:

> It will be set for the current document and all documents subsequently opened and carry over to the next session.

In which part of the TeX source file is this information saved? Doesn't the substitution take place during input when some space character is typed afterwards?

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