Re: error message query

[Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>]

Thomas—

The problem seems limited to one of my environments. With the one for  
the journal, MKII and \def\ {|~|} work when the Greek module is loaded  
and when real Greek is set. In short, the changes made in your Greek  
module seem happily restricted to text in \localgreek{...} and so on.

I am at a loss to see how \def\ {|~|} collides with the many macros in  
the problem environment right now, hence my query about a cleverer way  
to make the definition.

By the way, I use |~| to reduce stretch and to get the right spacing  
after any period within a sentence. It’s unbreakability is an  
undesirable side effect. (The string A.|~\E|~|Samuel”, for example,  
breaks with a hyphen as in  “A. E.-” which is certainly not good.)  
Apparently, we have lost the functionality of the old “\ ” when 
\mainlanguage[en].

Cheers, Alan

On Sep 3, 2008, at 17;44,35 , Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

>
> On Sep 3, 2008, at 9:48 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
>
>> It appears that the problem is my definition
>>
>> \def\ {|~|}
>>
>> Though this definition works in a simple test file, it apparently
>> conflicts with something in my environment file and produces the  
>> error
>> message reported previously. So, is there a “safer” way to define
>> \<space> as {|~|}?
>>
>> Alan
>
> Since you seem to be using Greek in your file: both | and ~ are made
> inactive in the Greek environment, so if you use '\ ' within Greek
> stuff, you're running into trouble. I don't see a solution within mkii
> if you want the nonbreakable space.
>
> Thomas
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