Re: Malicious little bugger

[David Arnold <dwarnold45@cox.net>]

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.

On Jul 2, 2006, at 7:29 PM, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:

>>> are the same, i.e. the \cs ends at a non-letter and the space is
>>> gobbled
>
>> Can someone give me an example where this happens in either latex or
>> tex?
>
> Not sure if this example is what you're looking for, but a typical
> case in TeX or LaTeX is:
>
>   \TeX has a programming language that only a mother could love.
>
> which should be written as
>
>   \TeX{} has a programming language that only a mother could love.
>
> or as
>
>   \TeX\ has a ...
>
> -Sanjoy
>
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