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 fBAG90G15649 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:09:00 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fBAG90U29868 . for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:09:00 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C18194.FA71F600" Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id fBAG15a12456; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:01:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id fBAG1tX27834; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:01:55 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 1520 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:01:54 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id fBAG1sB27828 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:01:54 +0100 Received: from mail.umu.se (custer.umdac.umu.se [130.239.8.14]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id fBAG0wa12420 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:00:58 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.239.20.144] (mac144.math.umu.se [130.239.20.144]) by mail.umu.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19903 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:00:55 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: References: Your message of "Sat, 01 Dec 2001 06:32:35 -0200." <3C0895A3.384D2CD4@ct.ufsm.br> Return-Path: X-Sender: lars@abel.math.umu.se x-mime-autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id fBAG1sB27829 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: \verb in \footnote and \section Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:01:00 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_Hellstr=F6m?= Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4177 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C18194.FA71F600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 14.24 +0100 2001-12-10, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >2. \protect has no effect on the working/non-working state of \verb. >when lamport says in his manual that you can't use \verb in the >argument of a command, he actually means what he says. While we're at \verb anyway, did anyone [with actual familiarity of extending TeX] investigate any further the feasibility of the mechanism that I sketched in my mail to this list of 13 Jun 2001? Although the particular problem that motivated that suggestion was language-tagging in multilingual documents, I did remark that one could just as well use it to implement a \verb command that _would_ work in = the arguments of commands. (This is of course not practically possible in a non-extended TeX.) Lars Hellstr=F6m ------_=_NextPart_001_01C18194.FA71F600 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: \verb in \footnote and \section

At 14.24 +0100 2001-12-10, Robin Fairbairns = wrote:
>2. \protect has no effect on the = working/non-working state of \verb.
>when lamport says in his manual that you can't = use \verb in the
>argument of a command, he actually means what he = says.

While we're at \verb anyway, did anyone [with actual = familiarity of
extending TeX] investigate any further the = feasibility of the mechanism
that I sketched in my mail to this list of 13 Jun = 2001?

Although the particular problem that motivated that = suggestion was
language-tagging in multilingual documents, I did = remark that one could
just as well use it to implement a \verb command that = _would_ work in the
arguments of commands. (This is of course not = practically possible in a
non-extended TeX.)

Lars Hellstr=F6m

------_=_NextPart_001_01C18194.FA71F600--