On 5/6/05, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > where the 8 indicates you will have 8 editable entries.  In the macro
> > > definition box, insert the left brace, the 2x4 array (with right
> > > justification) and the right null delimiter.  Then (still in the macro
> > > definition box) switch into each cell and enter an argument index in the
> > > form #1, #2, ..., #8.  When you invoke the macro with \myArray inside a
> > > math environment, you'll get editable cells in which to enter the eight
> > > arguments.  The limit is nine (the indexing must be '#' followed by a
> > > single digit, and #0 won't fly).
> >
> > It would be even more interesting to have a macro able to accept a
> > variable number of entries, which would be chosen by the user. Is my
> > idea feasible?
> 
> Not really, first of all it's hard to implement and secondly there's a
> hard maximum of 9 macro arguments in TeX, so this will be quite some
> hackery to create 5x5 tables this way.

Thanks, Andre'. I also imagined that would be very hard, if not impossible.

Paul

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