On 07/02/2010 13:25, Lars Hellström wrote: > Joseph Wright skrev: >> I wrote l3io as we had nothing at all and I needed some functions >> available: it's therefore not had too much reviewing just yet. I'm >> very much learning these things (I have no formal programming >> background) so I make mistakes, I'm afraid, and just went with >> essentially a re-code of the latex.ltx material in this area. Your >> suggestion is pretty sensible, and as long as the rest of the team >> look happy with this I'd hope a re-write can be arranged. Feel free to >> contribute more ideas [or even code :-)]. > > FWIW, fontinst maintains a pool of output streams and allocates streams > from this pool. See fibasics.dtx. Hello Lars, Thanks for that: I will take a look. -- Joseph Wright