Taco Hoekwater wrote:
The idea was to have registers and read/write syntax to allow things like this (rough ideas, api may change yet):
\list0=\unhbox0 % now \list0 contains a node list \list1={Hello world!} % now \list1 also contains a node list \list2={\hsize=12in } % error: only node-building allowed
\write16{\the\list0 } % like \showlists, but using a fully % restorable read syntax
\hsize=2in \the\list0 \par % typeset the node list
\noindent hello world! \list0=\lastlist % gobbles the node list from this par % before anything is done to it.
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