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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Aditya Mahajan <aditya.mahajan@mcgill.ca>
Subject: Re: Strange bug with \ in footnotes
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:32:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <501E3DC9.6040605@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1208041456480.20380@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>

On 4-8-2012 20:59, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I usually use \ after abbreviations to avoid bad interword spaces. For
> example, Prof.\ ABC. However, when using this in footnotes, if there is a
> linebreak after the \, I get an error:
>
> ! Undefined control sequence.
>
> 1 >>  \starttext
> 2     Someone\footnote{Prof.\
> 3     ABC}
> 4     \stoptext
> 5
>
> l.1 Prof.\
>
>             ABC

interesting ... it only surfaces now because notes have been redone, but

     \section{Prof.\
      ABC}

has the same issue (something in the tex-lua-tex cycle)

Hans

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-05  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-04 18:59 Aditya Mahajan
2012-08-05  7:28 ` Otared Kavian
2012-08-05  7:45   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-08-05  9:32 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-08-05 10:27 ` Hans Hagen

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