[tex-live] Re: [tex-implementors] bug in etex

[David Kastrup]

Pierre MacKay <mackay at cs.washington.edu> writes:

> I think, given the special nature of \toks registers
> that you would have to say
> 
> \tokdeffed_262={\the\tokdeffed_260}
> 
> so that what was placed in \tokdeffed_262 was the actual string
> contents of the other \toks register.  That is certainly what I do
> to concatenate the contents of \toks registers.

>From the TeXbook:

<variable assignment>\is<integer variable><equals><number>
  \alt<dimen variable><equals><dimen>
  \alt<glue variable><equals><glue>
  \alt<muglue variable><equals><muglue>
  \alt<token variable><equals><general text>
  \alt<token variable><equals><filler><token variable>

So there you have it, straight from the lion's mouth.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum