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At 21:57 +0100 1998/11/02, Frank Mittelbach wrote:
>.. Change the above to:
>
>  He said \quote{She said to me \quote{bar}}, and so on
>
>what is going to happen? parsing a character and syntax stream of that
>type using \futurelet is just not good enough.

  One can get around this by using a pair of active characters. Denote
these by "<" and ">"; then the above would read
    He said <She said to me <bar>>, and so on
and \futurelet could be used.

  Hans Aberg
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