At 22:59 +0100 1998/12/09, Marcel Oliver wrote: >I was proposing an automated checker for [verification of syntax correctnes]. Then you have a problem. >Sure, but you can't really cause too much trouble without \def, >\expandafter and friends, and these clearly do not belong in a >portable format (while some form of \newcommand should be allowed for >reasons discussed some time ago). The problem is not only within LaTeX, but with respect to the inofrmation other tools should extract: That is what is forcing a more complex syntax also within LaTeX. And then you need a tool to check that syntax. But that tool can perhaps be merged with the editor (like emacs), or a separate program. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg <mailto:[log in to unmask]> * Home Page: <http://www.matematik.su.se/~haberg/> * AMS member listing: <http://www.ams.org/cml/>