CY, i started a reply to your latex work a while ago but i guess i never sent the email. broken down to its essence i have objections to using conditional code in a latex document. if we start down that path we end up with the whole "C" define horror show. C introduced #ifdef and #include .h, both of which have caused endless amounts of grief in my life. a fair percent of my porting problems revolve around these seemingly simple ideas which are the root of a lot of evil. because they are so pervasive at this point everyone seems to think they are useful. "in the small" they are but once you have a large, complex system they collapse.
i know this will turn into another point of controversy but before you turn on the flames try following (by hand) the expansion of your include files under all possible combination of define flags and you'll see that it is hopeless. conditional latex, as monty python used to say, is "right out". badtim _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer