At 02:58 PM 3/18/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>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-)
actually, in itself catcodes are a nice concept, but there should have been
provisions to push / pop states (too slow in macros)
Hans
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