Re: [NTG-pdftex] \expanded

11 Dec 2007

      Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 01:26:14PM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote:
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2007/12/10, Taco Hoekwater :
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Biggest problem is probably a good name:
a) \expanded would be a nice name, [...]
Hans and I think a) would be fine. [...]
I agree. A patch is welcome. :-)
Patch 885.
I suspect there will be a problem with

   \setvalue{begin\expanded{\getvalue{relax}}}

but have not time to delve into that right now.

I suspect this, because \directlua in luatex has similar
problems wrt. the 'current string', and I had to do
introduce a variable to save that, like this:

     procedure conv_toks;
     u:str_number;
     {...}

     u:=0;
     if str_start_macro(str_ptr)0 then begin
       if str_ptr=u+1 then
         decr(str_ptr)
       else begin {copy old string to the top location}
          i:=0;
          str_room(length(u));
          while i