X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["515" "Tue" " 8" "February" "1994" "11:27:14" "EST" "David M. Jones" "dmjones@THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU" "<199402081637.AA20175@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>" "12" "additional features" "^Date:" nil nil "2" "1994020816:27:14" "additional features" nil "<199402041809.AA18659@theory.lcs.mit.edu>"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA08953; Tue, 8 Feb 94 17:38:08 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA19308; Tue, 8 Feb 94 17:37:09 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA20175 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Tue, 8 Feb 1994 17:37:04 +0100 Message-Id: <199402081637.AA20175@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 7630; Tue, 08 Feb 94 17:36:54 +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 7628; Tue, 8 Feb 1994 17:36:54 +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 3343; Tue, 8 Feb 1994 17:36:25 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: "J%org Knappen, Mainz"'s message of Fri, 4 Feb 1994 18:34:54 +0100 <199402041809.AA18659@theory.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 11:27:14 EST From: "David M. Jones" Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: additional features Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1470 > Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 18:34:54 +0100 > From: "J%org Knappen, Mainz" > > I was afraid the answer would be ,,no''. I have thought about the problem > some time, but I dismissed all possible syntaxes coming to my mind (like > employing a third type of braces). My apologies if this has already been asked, but what's wrong with using a 3rd type of brace? LaTeX already uses parentheses to delimit arguments in some cases, so this isn't even a complete innovation. David.