From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35304 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Arnold Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: We have a problem --- Old file no longer compiles Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:30:00 -0700 Message-ID: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183577508 26432 80.91.229.12 (4 Jul 2007 19:31:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 19:31:48 +0000 (UTC) To: Context Mailing List List Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 04 21:31:45 2007 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I6AZl-0001LF-6c for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:31:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA75D201E3; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:31:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11943-03-3; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:31:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 623AB201B5; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:31:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A49201B5 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:31:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11943-03-2 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:31:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from omta02.suddenlink.net (omta02-pub.suddenlink.net [208.180.40.74]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD23820147 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:31:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.0.1.3] (really [75.111.18.179]) by omta02.suddenlink.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070704193127.QTB10446.omta02.suddenlink.net@[10.0.1.3]> for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:31:27 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:35304 Archived-At: Hi, In setting out to update our intermediate algebra textbook for the fall semester (http://msenux.redwoods.edu/IntAlgText/), I've found that a file that would formerly compile under a previous version of context will no longer compile. Preliminaries $ ctxtools --contextversion CtxTools | context version: 2007.06.06 09:53 (/usr/local/gwTeX/ texmf.local/tex/context/base/context.tex) CtxTools | context version: 2007.06.06 09:53 (/usr/local/gwTeX/ texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex) Preliminaries $ texmfstart texexec --version TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD The error message I receive is: textblocks : reading blocks from NumberSystemsExercises.tub (./NumberSystemsExercises.tub textblocks : shortanswer loaded and typeset textblocks : shortanswer loaded and processed textblocks : shortanswer loaded and typeset textblocks : shortanswer loaded and processed textblocks : shortanswer loaded and typeset textblocks : shortanswer loaded and processed textblocks : shortanswer loaded and typeset textblocks : shortanswer loaded and processed textblocks : shortanswer loaded and typeset ! Missing number, treated as zero. \relax \dogenfrac ...{\begingroup #4\endgroup #2#3\relax #5}} \mathematics #1->\relax \ifmmode #1 \else $#1$\fi l.216 $ \frac{81}{125} $ ? The point in the source that seems to cause the difficulty is: \noindent In \in{Exercises}[ex:secqu.9]-\in[ex:secqu.16], convert the given decimal to a fraction. % Exercise #9 \beginquestion \startquestion[ex:secqu.9] $0.648$ \stopquestion \endquestion \beginlonganswer \startanswer There are three decimal places, so $0.648=\frac{648}{1000}=\frac{81}{125}$. \stopanswer \endlonganswer \beginshortanswer \startanswer $\displaystyle \frac{81}{125}$ \stopanswer \endshortanswer Shortanswer and longanswer are blocks. Startanswer is an enumeration. I've tried this in other files and gotten similar errors, which seem to be tied to the frac command. 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