Re: Bug#354554: foiltex: support TexLive
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> From: Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>
> Subject: Re: Bug#354554: foiltex: support TexLive
> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:18:55 +0100
>
>> What? You mean you have been told that in a dtx file, one shouldn't use
>> \newcommand, but instead \def only? Can you give me a reference (LaTeX
>> bugnumber?) for that?
>
> latex/3850 If I misunderstand something, please let me know.
No, I misunderstood - you and Frank Mittelbach are right that
\newcommand isn't allowed in the "docstrip" language, i.e. it shouldn't
be used in an .ins file. I had misunderstood that it shouldn't be used
in the .dtx file, which would be bad (but is wrong).
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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