Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:11:49 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7HFBmQg023203 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:11:49 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7HF8p2h017002 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:08:51 +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 n7HF0QEG028208; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:08:42 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 288820 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:08:42 +0200 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n7HF8gJZ028940 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:08:42 +0200 Received: from pluto.open.ac.uk (pluto.open.ac.uk [137.108.145.32]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7HF8WAH016338 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:08:37 +0200 Received: from laurel.open.ac.uk ([137.108.170.71]) by pluto.open.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Md3oy-0006Sa-QD for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:08:28 +0100 Received: from KIELDERCMS1.open.ac.uk ([137.108.140.186]) by LAUREL.open.ac.uk ([137.108.170.71]) with mapi; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:08:28 +0100 Thread-Topic: Named parameters in macros Thread-Index: AcocwOy/HCJ0qtEPRiCgQ6kyLFwuBgCiwN3Q References: ,<1C09237E-F871-434B-9527-4C6A3F2CF6A0@gmail.com> <4A852C0B.8080608@elzevir.fr> 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 n7HF8gJZ028941 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:08:28 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: "J.Fine" Subject: Re: Named parameters in macros To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <4A852C0B.8080608@elzevir.fr> 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: 17 Aug 2009 15:11:49.0417 (UTC) FILETIME=[0B30C990:01CA1F4D] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5935 Manuel wrote: > > Thank you. It's not the only nice thing we can do. Here are some more: > > > > * Allow digits in control sequence names > > * Allow period in control sequence names > > I think the naming scheme (at the programming level at leat) has been > discussed > previously and is now considered stable. Let's not re-discuss again and > again > points were decisions are already made. (And btw, I personnaly think the > namign > scheme in expl3 is good.) My suggestion is compatible with the LaTeX3 naming scheme. Did you think it was not? > > * Allow '~' to produce a space /in all circumstances/ > > > What would be the purpose? So that \this ~ \that has as space between \this and \that, for example. Or to get several spaces in a row. Apologies for not getting back to you earlier. -- 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).