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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: \Word and friends
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:19:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CB0BF8.3070407@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <274679A6-8C4C-4121-A54C-2AB601D7E51F@science.uva.nl>

Hans van der Meer wrote:
> After \def\Example{example}
> \Word{\Example} gives example
> So I need
> \expanded{\Word{\Example}} to get Example
> but
> \WORD{\Example}} does give EXAMPLE
> 
> I did not expect that. 
> Is this the intended behaviour?

Well, expanding the argument of \Word automatically would not
always be safe, so I guess it is unavoidable in current \TeX
(the problem is that the \uppercase primitive is not expandable).

Taco

      reply	other threads:[~2006-07-29  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-28  6:15 Hans van der Meer
2006-07-29  7:19 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]

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