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 o8GA74Ai013682 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:07:06 +0200 Received: (qmail 12477 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2010 10:06:59 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2010 10:06:59 -0000 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay2.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.210.211] by mx0.gmx.net (mx064) with SMTP; 16 Sep 2010 12:06:59 +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 o8GA52oU031214 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:05:02 +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 o8G8kaRL028362; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:05:23 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 450288 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:05:23 +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 o8GA5N2d012458 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:05:23 +0200 Received: from oberon.open.ac.uk (oberon.open.ac.uk [137.108.141.46]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o8GA4YYo013658 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:04:38 +0200 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,375,1280703600"; d="scan'208";a="51815224" X-Disclaimed: 1 Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <19109.1284579373@cl.cam.ac.uk> <4C9122A1.4060008@morningstar2.co.uk> <4C91239B.2040301@morningstar2.co.uk> <4C912F95.70503@morningstar2.co.uk> , <20100916030501.GA32514@oberdiek.my-fqdn.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Domino Web Server Release 8.5.2 HF16 August 30, 2010 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by HTTP Server on mcs-notes1/mcs/UK(Release 8.5.2 HF16|August 30, 2010) at 16/09/2010 11:05:03, Serialize complete at 16/09/2010 11:05:03, Itemize by HTTP Server on mcs-notes1/mcs/UK(Release 8.5.2 HF16|August 30, 2010) at 16/09/2010 11:05:03, Serialize by Router on mcs-notes1/mcs/UK(Release 8.5.2 HF16|August 30, 2010) at 16/09/2010 11:05:03 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 o8GA5N2d012459 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:05:03 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Chris Rowley Subject: Re: e-TeX low-level expertise needed Re: Allocation of registers To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: <20100916030501.GA32514@oberdiek.my-fqdn.de> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Mail was not recognized as spam); Detail=5D7Q89H36p4U4jfdfC5HDevlx1X2sAZgP9e9F2VTUYI/FLDAh5vXTVin+wznIYULO4W8f iu4UIHVeutAdNYNyhIIRpjhB4NMqCt7OvFNAZ1Wfx4FZJc627ijqKNPBMry42D3C0vBPyK5et6Ko fYsJQ==V1; X-Resent-By: Forwarder X-Resent-For: rainer.schoepf@gmx.net X-Resent-To: rainer@rainer-schoepf.de Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6387 Thanks for this, Heiko. Note there is no upper range check in the code here: >> \reserveinserts is a macro of etex.sty: | %% And we define \reserveinserts, so that you can say \reserveinserts{17} | %% in order to reserve room for up to 17 additional insertion classes, that | %% will not be taken away by \newcount, \newdimen, \newskip, or \newbox. | | \outer\def \reserveinserts#1% |  {\global\insc@unt\numexpr \et@xins \ifnum#1>\z@ -#1\fi \relax} --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302)