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I fear moving the definition is not as easy as I am defining this construction inside a package (sorry for not mentioning this).
Is there a way to do something like the l3keys package which (as far as I understand it) sanitizes the comma and the = sign
(just for < and >)?

Ben
> Am 21.04.2017 um 19:14 schrieb Frank Mittelbach <frank.mittelbach@LATEX-PROJECT.ORG>:
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> it is more or less what babel does (only after begin document), the point is not that it is difficult to solve his particular problem, for which is is enough to move the definition or to make < active before it or ... the problem I was pointing out is the difficulty of a general interface solution that works out of the box.
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> Again as such that is not impossible at all, but is much more than an adhoc fix, as I said, there are reasons why babel delays making things active and those reasons need to be taken into account for a general solution.
> 
> frank