On 15/09/2010, at 2:51 PM, Joseph Wright wrote:

> This will give an error even though expl3 loads etex for allocation to the extended pool. Inserts to have a set of registers available with the same numbers, and these need to be in the standard pool.
> 
> The issue isn't unique to expl3, and doesn't show up unless you add quite a lot more register use on top of it.

Is there any chance that this the same problem that's been reported recently here:

<http://github.com/wspr/fontspec/issues#issue/69>

? (I haven't had time to look, yet.)
Is there conceivably a bug in etex.sty?

-- Will