X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["307" "Sun" "17" "October" "1999" "15:48:36" "+0100" "James Kilfiger" "mapdn@CSV.WARWICK.AC.UK" nil "8" "Expandable templates" "^Date:" nil nil "10" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA29339 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:48:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <9.ECB54302@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:48:38 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 444888 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:46:58 +0200 Received: from snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk [137.205.192.31]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01953 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:46:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mimosa.csv.warwick.ac.uk (mapdn@mimosa [137.205.192.34]) by snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA08260 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 15:48:37 +0100 (BST) Received: (from mapdn@localhost) by mimosa.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA27438 for LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 15:48:36 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <199910171448.PAA27438@mimosa.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lars_Hellstr=F6m?= at "Oct 15, 99 05:11:24 pm" Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 15:48:36 +0100 From: James Kilfiger Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Expandable templates Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3356 Templates defined with the current mechanism aren't fully expandable. I think the documentation claims they are robust, but I get errors when I put instances in an \edef. There are some situations which templates seem very suited for which need to be fully expandable. Is this realizable? James