Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f16JWuH19835 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:32:56 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f16JWud05893 . for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:32:56 +0100 Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f16JWt705876 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:32:55 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09073.9ADA2400" Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.57]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA25465 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:32:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f16JWt705872 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:32:55 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <15.6FC53D86@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:32:50 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 489034 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:32:51 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13477 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:32:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA33902 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:32:51 +0100 Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f16JWpu28833 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:32:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from [195.20.224.209] (helo=mrvdom02.schlund.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14QDr8-0006kL-00 for LATEX-L@urz.uni-heidelberg.de; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:32:50 +0100 Received: from manz-3e3646fc.pool.mediaways.net ([62.54.70.252] helo=istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de) by mrvdom02.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14QDrA-00079u-00 for LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:32:53 +0100 Received: (from latex3@localhost) by istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) id UAA22368; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:18:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: Return-Path: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.4.1 X-Authentication-Warning: istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de: latex3 set sender to frank@mittelbach-online.de using -f Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: More template experience Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:18:33 +0100 Message-ID: <14976.19977.570637.825825@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Frank Mittelbach" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3730 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09073.9ADA2400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > each with a brace group (\csname doesn't mind category 1 and = 2 > characters), since even an ingenious fool has work very hard to get = braces > mismatched in arguments, whereas with the current naming scheme this is weird :-) and i thought my learning days on TeX the programs = have been over. even \expandafter\show \csname ab{cd\endcsname does work. well, off hand i think you do not only have a good point but also a good solution. frank ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09073.9ADA2400 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: More template experience

 > each <name_i> with a brace group = (\csname doesn't mind category 1 and 2
 > characters), since even an ingenious fool = has work very hard to get braces
 > mismatched in arguments, whereas with the = current naming scheme

this is weird :-) and i thought my learning days on = TeX the programs have been
over.

even

  \expandafter\show \csname = ab{cd\endcsname

does work.

well, off hand i think you do not only have a good = point but also a good
solution.

frank

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