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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:32:49 +0100
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Will Robertson wrote:
> On 15/09/2008, at 3:42 PM, Joseph Wright wrote:
> 
>> So my attempts to create a simple hook:
>>
>> \def:cpx {<key>} <arg spec.> {\exp_not:N\prehook <code>
>> \exp_not:posthook}
>>
>> fail when the added code contains #1, #2, ... My current approach at
>> least does not give a TeX error under these circumstances (I've added a
>> custom one to warn of a problem).
>>
>> I'm sure I'm mossing something, but my knowledge of TeX's approach to
>> doubling # characters, etc., is clearly insufficient to find it.
> 
> Maybe as a pre-cursor to this work we should port patchcmd to expl3?
> Even that package only handles "plain" argument specs, though.
> 
> W

That is a somewhat different issue, I think. As I said, the problem here
is my lack of knowledge of how to get the "hooks" to reproduce exactly
the input, including the "#1", etc., signs.

Of course, \patchcmd would be nice for other things (as I've already said).
-- 
Joseph Wright

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