X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["388" "Mon" " 7" "February" "1994" "17:05:00" "GMT" "Alan Jeffrey" "alanje@COGS.SUSSEX.AC.UK" "<199402071714.AA17083@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>" "11" "Re: virtual dimensions" "^Date:" nil nil "2" "1994020717:05:00" "virtual dimensions" nil ""]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA06880; Mon, 7 Feb 94 18:14:10 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA13656; Mon, 7 Feb 94 18:14:08 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA17083 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Mon, 7 Feb 1994 18:14:06 +0100 Message-Id: <199402071714.AA17083@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9606; Mon, 07 Feb 94 18:13:57 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DHDURZ1) by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 9605; Mon, 7 Feb 1994 18:13:58 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin LISTSERV@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 9594; Mon, 7 Feb 1994 18:13:26 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: (message from Mike Piff on 7 Feb 94 15:59:21) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 17:05:00 GMT From: Alan Jeffrey Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: virtual dimensions Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1450 >True, but I can't think of any situation when one would want to use a >dimension register before assigning to it anyway. How about the original example, which was an old LaTeX2.09 document style option which used the value of \footheight. The 2.09 article.sty sets \footheight, but the 2e one doesn't. The idea of on-the-fly register allocation may be useful in LaTeX3 though. Alan.