Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:06:43 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7AG6jcL021987 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:06:45 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n7AG2NJF015756 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:02:23 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n7AABWYV014993; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:02:22 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 298215 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:02:22 +0200 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n7AG2Muf012891 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:02:22 +0200 Received: from pluto.open.ac.uk (pluto.open.ac.uk [137.108.145.32]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n7AG2Dt1015559 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:02:17 +0200 Received: from laurel.open.ac.uk ([137.108.170.71]) by pluto.open.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MaXK9-0006m4-F4 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:02:13 +0100 Received: from KIELDERCMS1.open.ac.uk ([137.108.140.186]) by LAUREL.open.ac.uk ([137.108.170.71]) with mapi; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:02:13 +0100 Thread-Topic: xparse Thread-Index: AcoZ068BR5roEh0YTDmPNsZomYENoAAABSTw References: <4A7921CF.5020803@morningstar2.co.uk> <4A7A1505.4040604@residenset.net> <4A7AD930.2090106@residenset.net> <8516B615-51AA-4D90-BB7D-A9E122AA0335@gmail.com> <4A804317.6050909@morningstar2.co.uk> Accept-Language: en-US, en-GB Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US, en-GB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id n7AG2Muf012892 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:02:15 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: "J.Fine" Subject: Re: xparse To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <4A804317.6050909@morningstar2.co.uk> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -6.599 () BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Aug 2009 16:06:43.0868 (UTC) FILETIME=[8DF1DDC0:01CA19D4] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5861 Hi I'm not sure I understand what it is you want to do, but it does seem to me that TeX macros are not a suitable language. Jonathan The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).