X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["291" "Fri" "6" "November" "1998" "19:50:57" "+0100" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "12" "Re: pattern matching in LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil "pattern matching in LaTeX" nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA31500; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:51:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <13.46172CCD@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:51:14 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 407809 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:51:10 +0100 Received: from ixgate01.dfnrelay.d400.de (ixgate01.dfnrelay.d400.de [193.174.248.1]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09966 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:51:08 +0100 (MET) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:51:03 +0100 X400-Received: by mta venus in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:50:54 +0100 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:50:33 +0100 X400-Received: by mta open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:50:32 +0100 X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.MHS-RELAY.SUN in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:50:57 +0100 X400-Originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<13891.17532.169854.302662@fell.] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re: pattern m... Alternate-Recipient: Allowed References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: VM 6.44 under Emacs 19.34.1 Message-ID: <13891.17532.169854.302662@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <364340A4.3A5CE73C@na.uni-tuebingen.de> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:50:57 +0100 From: Chris Rowley Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: pattern matching in LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2755 Marcel Oliver wrote -- > Question: how difficult would it be to extend TeX to > allow for dual/multiple tier expansion? What are the draw-backs? This sounds like a useful question to me. But I would extend it to ask whether all these processes should be done by expansion tiers? chris