On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:12:50AM +0100, Paul Smith 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.

Andre'

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