On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> Peter Münster wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to activate a remapper in a style or module file. How could
>> this be done?
>>
>> I tried this without success:
>>
>> \defineremapper[filterItem]
>> \remapcharacter[filterItem][`•]{\item}
>> \appendtoks \startfilterItem \to \everystarttext
>> \prependtoks \stopfilterItem  \to \everystoptext
>>
>

>
> kep in mind that the remapper is just a hack and will not be extended etc
> etc; i'm not going to handle interferences with other mechanisms
>

> Hans
>


I think the point is this :
in some situations one find useful to convert things like • in macros like
\item .
Of course, it can be done with  preprocessing , or with some ad-hoc macros
in lua code , etc
So, apart \remapcharacter, are there  any other safe ways to "remap
character" ?


-- 
luigi