Lars >1. How should LICR strings be written out to files used only by >1. LaTeX > itself? > Are there technically any such files today? BibTeX reads .aux files. So it does! > Copying and editing the contents of .toc, .lof, etc. files is an > established (although maybe not kosher) method for finetuning the > table of > contents and such. Indeed! So we are in the tricky case' on this one! How can we communicate text strings to an unknown outside world? chris