Arno Trautmann writes: > Hi, > > I$,1ry(Bm looking for the possibility to define an optional argument like > > \newcommand{\command}[2][default]{} > > but didn$,1ry(Bt find anything. Is there no such thing or am I just too stupid > to find it? :( on low-level, e.g. expl3 there is no point to provide something like optional arguments, on a user interface level there is xparse as a sample implementation a la latex2e template for some design-level interface cheers frank