From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Problem with '\ ' in math commands in current minimals
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:53:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <484E40F7.2000200@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806092346370.22184@nqv-yncgbc>
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Morgan Brassel wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> In the following example:
>>
>> \define[1]\com{com\ #1}
>> \starttext
>> \com{1} $\com{1}$
>> \stoptext
>>
>> the second call to \com (the one in math mode) seems to stop the
>> compilation of the file. Is it a bug? It wasn't happening before. I'm
>> using the latest minimals.
>
> Definitely a bug: the trace shows a recursive definition. \ is defined in
> terms of itself. Looking at core-spa.tex I cannot understand why this is
> happening.
in core-spa.tex change this line:
\let\normalspaceprimitive=\ % space-comment is really needed
if you want to be puzzled ... try
\show\
\show\ %
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-10 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-10 2:58 Morgan Brassel
2008-06-10 3:51 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-06-10 8:17 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-10 8:53 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2008-06-10 11:55 ` Morgan Brassel
2008-06-10 14:14 ` Aditya Mahajan
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