jochen actually is THE author as he is the father and executive director of this project... and he has strugled with this lot longer [Wink]
I just coded some lines.
and we may never forget our daddy shawn!

anyway, you quessed right that part why macros are not included.
I would have skipped all the keyword stuff but as kix is as free as it is, there is no-way to differentiate functions from commands.

all though, kixtart inbuild functions do require parameters so they would need brackets... but UDFs don't
but separating macros and vars is pretty easy [Wink]

only need for macro ref would be to check correct macro names, but that would be syntax-checking.
anyway, skipping the syntax-checking from the engine gave so much more speed that it was a must skip.
thus making the macro-ref unneeded.

advanced starters pack you say?
is there someone to build such a thing [Eek!]

and btw, thanks for stopping by [Smile]

{edit}
what comes to those remarks or comments about the convertor engine...
I would like to keep the code intact and messed up only by the kix-gurus.
this way, with no comments, it mostlikely will be left alone.

anyway, the complexity and series of join-splits was not my plan...
they just came along when had to keep the engine as fast as possible.

[ 28. January 2003, 06:54: Message edited by: Lonkero ]
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