scribes and scolars: ^^M

scribes and scolars: ^^M

[Frans Goddijn]

Hello,

After a longish working day I treat myself to a few hours of happy TeXing
on a book that I want to make available for those interested and on the
home PC I ran into an interesting problem:

On the second run, tex stops with a strange complaint, caused by a line in
the .tuo file that has suddenly got some strange characters, displayed in
the .tuo file as ^^M but otherwise invisible in the source file itself.

I seem to remember that a while ago Hans tackled a similar problem but I
forgot how it could be avoided. On the WIN98 system where I originally ran
this source file, nothing like this happened. On This WIN-NT machine at
home, this comes up...

I easily find these "invisible" line-break like characters in the TUO file
so I can search and destroy these in the main source file, but if there's a
better way I'd be interested to hear ;=}}

Here is part of that .TUO file:

%
% TeXUtil 6.7 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-1998 / Commands
%
\thisisutilityversion{1998.12.20}

\registerentrya{boektitel}{Scribes and Scholars.^^MA Guide to the
Transmission of Greek and^^MLatin Literature.}
\registerpage{boektitel}{,}{238}{2::0:1:0:0:0:0:0::17}{21}
\registerentrya{boektitel}{Sp\"{a}tzeit}
\registerpage{boektitel}{,}{90}{2::0:1:0:0:0:0:0::9}{13}
\registerentrya{boektitel}{Strofen en andere verzen uit de^^Mnalatenschap
van Andries de Hoghe}

Groet!

Frans

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Re: scribes and scolars: ^^M

[Hans Hagen]

At 10:01 PM 8/24/00 +0200, Frans Goddijn wrote:

>On the second run, tex stops with a strange complaint, caused by a line in
>the .tuo file that has suddenly got some strange characters, displayed in
>the .tuo file as ^^M but otherwise invisible in the source file itself.

>\registerentrya{boektitel}{Scribes and Scholars.^^MA Guide to the
>Transmission of Greek and^^MLatin Literature.}

Now, say that you redefine: 

  \def\obeyedspace{\ifprocessingverbatim\hbox{ }\else\space\fi}

and set

  \setupregister[index][expansion=yes]

and define a command like: 

  \def\Index{\bgroup\ignorelines\doIndex}

  \def\doIndex#1{\index{#1}\egroup}

then you can say: 

  \startlines
  Why is Frans torturing ConTeXt so much\Index{torture 
  test}.
  \stoplines

Of course you can also decide to put the whole index entry on one line, 

Hans
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