Robin Fairbairns <[log in to unmask]> writes: > the "lisp heritage" is no more than simple use of some lisp names > for some latex internal operations (e.g., car, cdr). it's a long > time (>40 years) since i learned lisp, but i don't remember a > special name for items in a lisp list. . . . i think element is > as good as it gets, in this context. In Gnu Emacs Lisp its name is "elt". Cheers. -- Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P.S. To refresh after 40 years: Go to the "scratch" buffer in Gnu Emacs and enter (setq myseq '("a" "b" "c" "d" "e")) then press C-j to see: ("a" "b" "c" "d" "e") Then (elt myseq 3) which returns: "d" With the cursor over "elt" above enter C-h f to see the help for "elt": elt is a built-in function in `C source code'. (elt SEQUENCE N) Return element of SEQUENCE at index N. ----------------------------------------------------------------------