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Date:    13 Jul 90 10:58:59 GMT+2
From: MITTELBACH FRANK <PZF5HZ@DRUEDS2.bitnet>
To: DR. RAINER SCHOEPF    <BK4@DHDURZ1.uucp>
Subject: latex-l
Status: R
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I would like to introduce a command \expand which takes one
argument which is expanded. Writing to aux or similar files
should be done via a macro which ensures that nothing is expanded
except \expand commands. This would eliminate the fragile arguments
in most situations, i.e. headings and the like. The other cases
would need a similar solution. For example the @{..} in the
the tabular extension written by me long time ago is not longer
a moving argument. I'm not sure whether \expand should be user
inaccessible or not, but I would vote for a name which could be
used outside a style file.

By the way the whole mechanism is not too complicated to implement.
Somewhere I have a prototype version lying arround but missing the
\expand command. (It worked with special arguments to internal
commands which write to files.)

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P.S. Rainer told me that this message never made it into the list
so I'm resending it.