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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
Subject: Re: \input filename causes error.
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:28:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <500FA010.4050704@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120724202620.1ff9676d@sda3.wexfordpress.net>

On 25-7-2012 02:26, john Culleton wrote:
> If I set up my main file thus:
> \starttext
> \input title.tex
> \input copyright.tex
> \startfrontmatter
> \completecontent
> \chapter{Introduction}
> \stopfrontmatter
> \startbodymatter
> \input body.tex
> \stopbodymatter
> \startappendices
> \stopappendices
> \startbackmatter
> \chapter{Index}
> %\chapter{Acknowledgement}
> \title{Colofon}
> \stoptext
>
> and set up my title.tex file thus:
>
> \startstandardmakekup
> Foo
>
> \stopstandardmakekup
>
> then "\startstandardmakeup" generates an error.
>
> I can work around it of course. I just wonder why it happens. The
> use of the \input file should be transparent to the rest of TeX.
> MKIV on slackware Linux.

What error? the primitive \input has some special parsing properties

maybe adding \relax after the filename helps


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-25  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-25  0:26 john Culleton
2012-07-25  7:28 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-07-25  7:32 ` Marco

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