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+there are two basic syntactic modes:
+
+TeX mode:
+
+* any letter is an identifier by itself
+
+Program mode:
+
+* sequences of letters (and possibly other characters)
+  are collapsed into a single token. Id tokens are separated
+  by any other character not included in one of the collapsing
+  categories.
+
+The mode is a property of the parser.
+
+there are two basic semantic modes:
+
+math mode:
+
+* implicit operator is multiplication
+
+program mode:
+
+* implicit operator is function application