Monday, March 18, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:

HH> beware, scantokens adapts to the current catcode regime; when a macro is
HH> loaded it's kind of frozen, so then a \ is still a \, while in xml mode, 
HH> the \ is something different, so here scantokens would read the data as 
HH> being xml (unless xml mode is temporary disables).

HH> I guess that this fuzzy explanation will make you go into the tex source 
HH> code -)

No, it just drives me mad for this crazy expansion/catcode mechanism of
TeX 8-)

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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