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 p4GLm9iS026391 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 23:48:10 +0200 Received: (qmail 27481 invoked by alias); 16 May 2011 21:48:04 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 May 2011 21:48:04 -0000 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.100.212] by mx0.gmx.net (mx080) with SMTP; 16 May 2011 23:48:04 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p4GLjuf9029982 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 16 May 2011 23:45:57 +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 p4GKkjKM004064; Mon, 16 May 2011 23:45:56 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 1306631 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 16 May 2011 23:45:56 +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 p4GLjuqd019260 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 23:45:56 +0200 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.8]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p4GLjqei029961 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 23:45:55 +0200 Received: from morse.mittelbach-online.de (p3EE3F64F.dip.t-dialin.net [62.227.246.79]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LnHlS-1PmBIM0LcM-00hbAQ; Mon, 16 May 2011 23:45:52 +0200 Received: by morse.mittelbach-online.de (Postfix, from userid 501) id 6751074F35; Mon, 16 May 2011 23:45:49 +0200 (CEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <4DCA93CC.5020605@morningstar2.co.uk> <19920.15087.714131.100464@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <447088.31292.qm@web24704.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <4DD0BFB3.7070007@morningstar2.co.uk> <27DAD3FD-9C28-4707-9454-FBB65B66A56D@gmail.com> <4DD0D8F4.7030101@morningstar2.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:0VaYkryMwuptwAqTcACvW3AjQzS8K5/JkEX1adCaQmC UBmkoX5aZmGcdTmGWFita2lvFb2/dCBW208emuW+g0Mi8llKPB lzdON0AsrDiz4IOTPkLufs1Hz7NP/BsYkShpx0Yu3P71SeOw1Y oySup9ZABiiS3aHNZcWB6vIk/KQJPM/tBwpXuIGYEDnWuMkSbN r9yjSScZY1rsIKH6OKM8A== X-Spam-Whitelist-Provider: Message-ID: <19921.39693.383979.872806@morse.mittelbach-online.de> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 23:45:49 +0200 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Frank Mittelbach Subject: Re: xparse and space skipping To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: <4DD0D8F4.7030101@morningstar2.co.uk> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (eXpurgate); Detail=5D7Q89H36p6iJbT0DVr2NzmTlYqtFAbd9NflC4hSzUOCbWp4zIgiur18K3KvuM4KvtB+Q iD+HWrLo2AwbS6HS4r5pKvjAo1vbvaBhoy2lPtS/ZzteCHB1lewatEodjM/5BRY/ebrpHAPcU1CY W7j5D3axrJks7qzJdjd45wLV+0mkbcBwO974wJhJYMdqL/BveqTdM6sHofMXlm40tcl9w==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: 6760 Joseph Wright writes: > As I said in my other mail, at the moment xparse is about LaTeX2e > conventions using LaTeX3 ideas. So there is no danger of dropping > trailing optional arguments at the moment! I'd also note that there is > an outstanding question on the coffin code about whether optional > arguments, a keyval approach or something in between is best. yeah there is :-) I'm dead against it .. no not really. But I'm not really in favor of it either. But not here under this subject line > So I certainly don't regard this question as resolved one way or the other > at present: at the moment, I'm just worried about spaces :-) very wise. :-))