Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Syntax for describing LaTeX macro arguments

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> The multiline-font-lock branch uses special specifiers for describing
> the order and type of macro arguments.  The specifier for \newcommand,
> for example, looks like this: "*{}[][]{}"  That means there is a
> starred version of the macro and it expects a mandatory argument
> followed by two optional arguments and another mandatory argument.
>
> For some macros like \newcommand there is the possibility that one can
> use a macro instead of a TeX group as argument.  That means both
> \newcommand{\foo}{\bar} and \newcommand\foo{\bar} are valid.  I'm
> currently trying to fit this possibility into the syntax for the
> specifier.

Mandatory arguments that really _need_ braces for a single token are
rather rare.  They are more often than not TeX primitives.

Not sure we really need to cater for them.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum