At 18.59 +0100 2003-01-20, Frank Mittelbach wrote: >David Kastrup writes: > > How about squashing this particular problem with > > \protected\def{\"a}{\ifmmode ...}? > >yes, that is indeed possible a way to go (with eTeX version 2 that is) > >i think i did say last night that etex doesn't havesomething to stop scanning >for \omit andthe like, but my memory played tricks on me. > >it did not have such a thing in version 1 but with version 2 \protected was >extended to do exactly that stop the scan of an \omit > >so that would be one point in favour of an eTeX based solution, as suggested >in the policy discussion Would it break anything if the LaTeX core would say \ifx \protected\@undefined \def\protected{} \fi and \protected was used before each definition of a LICR command? Lars Hellström