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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2007-04-25 00:02:06 +0000
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+For programmers, it is quite common to use the name of a macro (for
+instance `foo' for the macro \foo, in other words, the letters f, o,
+and o). For this purpose, it is customary to call \string which does
+this sort of things... except that it prepends the escape character,
+controlled by the counter \escapechar, in front of the name. The
+traditional way of getting rid of it, is to set \escapechar to -1
+(without forgetting to restore the proper value at the end of the
+process) or to make use of \@gobble. The former has the drawback not
+to be expandible while the second isn't completely reliable. Here we
+extend the expandible methods to make it reliable.
+
+This material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License.
+See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html
+for the details of that license.