David Kastrup writes: > > > What is your take? I find it clearly unsatisfactory to have LaTeX > > > eat up save stack for newly defined labels like that at the end of > > > the document. > > > > well, you seem to be the first person getting into trouble with this, > > I doubt it. From ltxref.dtx: on labels I meant, but I was more or less joking, yes this isn't something that should stay, no question > So obviously somebody ran into this problem before. But only half of it > got fixed. yes I think I remember that one ... huge bibliographies being processed > > I don't really mind either of the three solutions (provided none of the > > kills the regression tests for 2e) but personally I would simply drop the > > group unless somebody can give me a good reason why it could be needed in > > a certain situation. > > For restoring \@newl@bel's definition afterwards. Don't ask me why it > could be needed. it could not could it? a) where? in a final OR? and b) to what purpose with auxfiles closed. I mean yes, that would be one of those things that would be different but I'm not even prepared to call that a sideeffect unless somebody shows me an existing application frank