> Hans Hagen > 9. August 2015 19:02 > > > hm, hard to catch (esp if we want to do that everywhere it will be a > slow downer) ... i'll do it for cells but so far other mechanisms were > less sensitive for this (we'd need an extension to luatex for handling > such cases ... maybe i'll look into that later) Shouldn’t be something like this enough (even though a better solution to prevent expension here would be nice): \unexpanded\def\tabl_x_start_cell_delayed_one[#tag]% % {\ifcsname\namedxtablehash{#tag}\s!parent\endcsname - {\ifcsname\??xtablecheck#tag\endcsname + {\ifcsname\??xtablecheck\detokenize\expandafter{#tag}\endcsname \expandafter\tabl_x_start_cell_delayed_two \else \expandafter\tabl_x_start_cell_yes \fi[#tag]} Wolfgang