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a2ps needs to know the beginning and the end of a word, especially keywords. Hence it needs two alphabets: the first one specifying by which letters an identifier can begin, and the second one for the rest of the word. If you prefer, a keyword starts with a character belonging to the first alphabet, and a character not pertaining to the second is a separator.