Will Robertson wrote: > I'd definitely like to explore ideas like this. > I've vaguely thought in the past what it would take to get {} braces as > having catcode other. I'm not sure it's feasible but I think it would > sure be nice :) I suspect this might be very awkward as things like {\Large Some text} then won't work. I assume your thinking that things like \emph{Text} would all be implemented using delimited arguments? (This seems a bit tricky in any case.) Although the user interface for LaTeX3 is a long way off, I would suspect that this type of thing will stay. -- Joseph Wright