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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: Malicious little bugger
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:26:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44A8B891.7090903@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7FA1F8C5-D8CA-4B90-AC50-A866B0E1127F@cox.net>

David Arnold wrote:
> Sanjoy,
> 
> Of course. Thanks.
> 
> But how about an example in latex or tex where a function eats a  
> brace and crashes, as what happens with this context code:
> 
>   \placeformula[-]
>   \startformula
>   [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\}
>   \stopformula
> 
> I know I've seen this in Latex before, but I can't remember where.

LaTeX's newline -- \\ -- command is infamous for this, esp. because
non-expert users tend to forget it even has an optional argument.

Greetings, Taco

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-03  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-02  4:36 David Arnold
2006-07-02 11:23 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-02 18:15   ` Peter Münster
2006-07-02 19:01     ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-07-02 19:53     ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-02 20:25       ` Peter Münster
2006-07-02 23:35       ` David Arnold
2006-07-03  2:29         ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-07-03  2:32           ` David Arnold
2006-07-03  5:17             ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-07-03  8:43               ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-03  6:26             ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]

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