> Thank you for this little beauty. I've tried to understand it, but
> it obviously needs more knowledge than I have.
Where's the problem? Note that you need to apply `.ec' and `.eo'
twice: the first time while defining the macro, and the second time
while executing it.
> So I deleted .eo and .ec references from your routines and prepended
> every backslash in my little inserts with another one. This works
> and, since these inserts are only a few lines long, prepending is no
> trouble.
Fine.
> Now I believe that you can walk on water, that is you are in the
> ninth order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy :-)
Will try to remember this the next time I go swimming.
Werner