X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["690" "Thu" "3" "December" "92" "10:14:51" "+0000" "Dominik Wujastyk" "ucgadkw@UCL.AC.UK" nil "21" "accented words in {tabbing} environment" "^Date:" nil nil "12"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (serv01) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA10213; Thu, 3 Dec 92 11:23:57 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.0/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA26021; Thu, 3 Dec 92 11:23:49 +0100 Message-Id: <9212031023.AA26021@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0210; Thu, 03 Dec 92 11:23:46 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 0782; Thu, 03 Dec 92 11:23:43 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 0779; Thu, 03 Dec 92 11:23:40 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 3 Dec 92 10:14:51 +0000 From: Dominik Wujastyk Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: accented words in {tabbing} environment Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 880 I have a lot of accent macros built into the LaTeX format file I habitually use. So char 229, for example, is defined to be active, and comes out as \=a. (A-macron is very common in the texts I write.) In the tabbing environment, \=, \' and \` are redefined to do other jobs, and you have to do accents by saying \a=, \a' and \a`. This is a real pain for people who use accents regularly. Could the next implementation of LaTeX adopt a principle of not using the same macro strings to do different jobs in different environments? Why not, for example, use the ampersand in the tabbing environment, since we already use it in tabular to do a very similar job? Best wishes, Dominik