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 o8GH9hcw024374 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:09:45 +0200 Received: (qmail 31405 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2010 17:09:38 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2010 17:09:37 -0000 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay2.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.210.211] by mx0.gmx.net (mx103) with SMTP; 16 Sep 2010 19:09:37 +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 o8GH7Gpg005851 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:07:16 +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 o8GE4QIt028362; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:07:28 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 498886 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:07:28 +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 o8GH7SUg014509 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:07:28 +0200 Received: from mta0.cl.cam.ac.uk (mta0.cl.cam.ac.uk [128.232.0.12]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o8GH6kKa008007 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:06:49 +0200 Received: from warp.cl.cam.ac.uk ([128.232.9.105] helo=cl.cam.ac.uk) by mta0.cl.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OwHvX-00032E-KT for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:07:15 +0100 X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.1.1 Message-ID: <10283.1284656835@cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:07:15 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: Re: e-TeX low-level expertise needed Re: Allocation of registers To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:48:15 +0100. <4C924A4F.30700@morningstar2.co.uk> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Mail was not recognized as spam); Detail=5D7Q89H36p4WX0t+AtsdW2ORvUlAfcdSIdQlIL3FTSFQDxQiodii41fjuqHQd8jenp0+N dNY0CcAB8WAv7r3OtvsaDOOiC4T8TWFW3c0h9kbMpE0/ou/MWvK8X//VR9J5RqCotAZER8h4O06e mC19Q==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: 6394 Joseph Wright wrote: > As Chris says, this seems more sensible than the current definition as > it gives meaningful messages when it's not possible to reserve the > space requested. agreed. > Now, who's actually in charge of etex.sty? peter breitenlohner. i don't know him (other than by reputation) and don't know whether he's likely to be amenable to adding heiko's change. robin