On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 04:32:59PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Isn't it possible to define \mesg only when \typeout's argument starts
> "Babel":
>
> {\def\typeout#1{if #1 starts with "Babel" then \global\def\mesg{#1}}
> \the\everyjob}
We could simply collect all typeout arguments and cut out the interesting
part later
\def\mesg{}
{\def\typeout#1{\global\edef\mesg{\mesg #1}}
\the\everyjob}
[edef expands the definition's body before doing an ordinary def[
Andre'
