tool to manipulate TeX boxes

[maieul]

etoolbox provide tool to manipulate TeX command, like \csdef.

Should not it useful to have such tool for boxes? I think to something like:

• \newcsbox{boxname}
• \setcsbox{boxname}=something

[josephwright]

I'm not sure this is (quite) in-scope. The package is about 'programming tools', and boxes are specifically typesetting not programming. I need to think a bit about it: I'm wary of exceeding the original author's idea of the package aims.

[maieul]

I understand. But in my sense box are not only typeset tool: it us a data type in the TeX programming.