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Date:         Sun, 7 Feb 2010 13:50:07 +0000
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From: Joseph Wright <joseph.wright@MORNINGSTAR2.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Newbie Question on LaTeX 3 Programming
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On 07/02/2010 13:25, Lars Hellström wrote:
> Joseph Wright skrev:
>> I wrote l3io as we had nothing at all and I needed some functions
>> available: it's therefore not had too much reviewing just yet. I'm
>> very much learning these things (I have no formal programming
>> background) so I make mistakes, I'm afraid, and just went with
>> essentially a re-code of the latex.ltx material in this area. Your
>> suggestion is pretty sensible, and as long as the rest of the team
>> look happy with this I'd hope a re-write can be arranged. Feel free to
>> contribute more ideas [or even code :-)].
>
> FWIW, fontinst maintains a pool of output streams and allocates streams
> from this pool. See fibasics.dtx.

Hello Lars,

Thanks for that: I will take a look.
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Joseph Wright