I have a number of slides using \...framedtext blocks to break the slides into panes within a TABLE environment (TMI: not in MWE; merely my justification for writing the wrapper macros). When the TABLE macros are invoked explicitly it all works fine and produces a suitable single-cell table with "quux blech baz bar foo" framed; when embedded in macros (whether defined by \def, \unexpanded\def, \define) then it fails with the error "The file ended when scanning an argument. => fatal error: return code: 256. A previous question on the topic seemed to indicate that TABLE was suitable, so I figure that something subtle is wrong as I've invoked the embedded TABLE macros. Any suggestions?

Many thanks,
 ---K

MWE: this code fails if the \...PaneSlide block is uncommented, succeeds if commented out.

\define\startPaneSlide{\bTABLE}
\define\startPaneRow{bTR\bTD}
\define\stopPaneRow{\eTD\eTR}
\define\stopPaneSlide{\eTABLE}

\starttext
    \bTABLE
        \bTR\bTD
            quux blech baz bar foo
        \eTD\eTR
    \eTABLE

    \startPaneSlide
        \startPaneRow
            foo bar baz blech quux
        \stopPaneRow
    \stopPaneSlide
\stoptext

Kevin W. Rudd, Ph.D.
CAPT, USN (Ret)

Computer Architecture & Computer Engineering
Advanced Computing Systems (ACS) Research Program
Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS)

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United States Naval Academy

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