Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by h1439878.stratoserver.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-2build1) with SMTP id o17Dxum1023969 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:59:57 +0100 Received: (qmail 27235 invoked by alias); 7 Feb 2010 13:59:51 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Feb 2010 13:59:51 -0000 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay2.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.210.211] by mx0.gmx.net (mx046) with SMTP; 07 Feb 2010 14:59:51 +0100 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 o17Dvtbx032454 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:57:56 +0100 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 o16N14Es024014; Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:57:53 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 380307 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:57:53 +0100 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 o17DvrmY005065 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:57:53 +0100 Received: from mta2.cl.cam.ac.uk (mta2.cl.cam.ac.uk [128.232.0.14]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o17Dvj32032333 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:57:48 +0100 Received: from sxp10.cl.cam.ac.uk ([128.232.10.70] helo=cl.cam.ac.uk) by mta2.cl.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 1Ne7dw-00031q-00 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:57:44 +0000 X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 22.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id o17DvrmY005066 Message-ID: <1615.1265551064@cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 13:57:44 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: Re: Newbie Question on LaTeX 3 Programming To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:25:27 +0100. <4B6EBF47.8010504@residenset.net> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Mail was not recognized as spam); Detail=5D7Q89H36p6i75npGen84eVAEFK/syJmAVhAT3mu30VXXBXVubWw5a7AOY+R3G7kYiLcc XTfSCNBXudks8jVIUKjkbe3FPvfAUYwC3vmjAmF69bigQm39dVChtkXsRe0ifFe2ZkCveJG6Uo4J I9YKg==V1; X-Resent-By: Forwarder X-Resent-For: rainer.schoepf@gmx.net X-Resent-To: rainer@rainer-schoepf.de X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 85.214.41.38 Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6225 Lars Hellström wrote: > FWIW, fontinst maintains a pool of output streams and allocates > streams from this pool. See fibasics.dtx. there's the newfile package, too, for latex users. (in the same area, at least; supported by will robertson, now, of course.) robin