Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:15:26 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7AGFRVp022151 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:15:27 +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 n7AGBJ85026113 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:11:20 +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 n7AG7sbT014993; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:11:19 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 298394 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:11:19 +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 n7AGBJEq013906 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:11:19 +0200 Received: from ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk (ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk [139.222.131.185]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n7AGB4oH025579 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:11:08 +0200 Received: from ueams02.uea.ac.uk (ueams02.uea.ac.uk [139.222.131.131]) by ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n7AGB3Ln032515 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:11:03 +0100 Received: from [139.222.202.22] by ueams02.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MaXSe-00023z-Up for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:11:00 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Canit-CHI2: 0.00 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN, outgoing) X-CanItPRO-Stream: UEA:outgoing (inherits from UEA:default,base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 27905662 - e69b71567705 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 213.139.130.197 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 139.222.131.185 Message-ID: <4A80469B.5040305@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:11:07 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Joseph Wright Subject: Re: xparse To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -6.599 () BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Aug 2009 16:15:26.0377 (UTC) FILETIME=[C5626990:01CA19D5] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5862 J.Fine wrote: > 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 Sorry, I'm a bit lost! Which bit of the thread are we talking about? (xparse as-a-concept, post-processing arguments, how to specify arguments, ... ) -- Joseph Wright