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 p1F9Deut015708 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:13:41 +0100 Received: (qmail 10548 invoked by alias); 15 Feb 2011 09:13:31 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Feb 2011 09:13:30 -0000 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay2.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.210.211] by mx0.gmx.net (mx009) with SMTP; 15 Feb 2011 10:13:30 +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 p1F9BI80027243 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:11:19 +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 p1F8nvQk029896; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:11:17 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 1335811 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:11:17 +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 p1F9BHul002144 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:11:17 +0100 Received: from mail-iy0-f177.google.com (mail-iy0-f177.google.com [209.85.210.177]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p1F9B2D4026894 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:11:07 +0100 Received: by iyh42 with SMTP id 42so6953676iyh.22 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:11:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.225.199 with SMTP id it7mr6245171icb.507.1297761062662; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:11:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from staff-248-169.wireless.adelaide.edu.au (staff-248-169.wireless.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.248.169]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ca7sm3047439icb.0.2011.02.15.01.11.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:11:01 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Spam-Whitelist: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id p1F9BHul002145 Message-ID: <4028010D-1144-415D-A984-E3684A7E3EDE@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:40:52 +1030 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Will Robertson Subject: Re: Expandable versions of \uppercase, \MakeUppercase, \lowercase, \MakeLowercase To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Mail was not recognized as spam); Detail=5D7Q89H36p77e5KAPs1l6v/Sb97LojnDtMgfETrECMLUO9erHzOJe+OynZRhvlGqb5A0X bbiCt2rAnnct/NAlbHMvoAL6GY+23tB3khNK7Y6oT1sPizBjJUAOds0oJBO/5TIz9C5741aj9GOJ bE70Q==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: 6599 On 15/02/2011, at 6:52 PM, Bruno Le Floch wrote: >> My personal opinion on uppercasing/lowercasing is that it should be a >> property of the font; > > Both Will and Frank agree on this, but currently, in many fonts that's not > possible. Right :( > Also, it is in fact possible to have an algorithm to produce > expandably > the result of {replacing some tokens by a corresponding macro} in a given tl. This code you're written sounds interesting. Does anyone have any idea what other sort of expansion-replacement code there is on CTAN? I know of Uwe Lück's fifinddo.sty code, as part of the nicetext bundle: -- Will