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'