At 16:33 23/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:
Don't mess with verbatim stuff in commands. Don't ask why, just don't do it ;-)
use buffers instead has to do with tex collapsing spaces into one, lineendings being spaces, active characters etc
And: TeX != C. Don't write C-like TeX-braces:
{ \this { \that {
This will give you a hard time looking for unwanted spaces.
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