From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Problem with '\ ' in math commands in current minimals
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:14:28 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806101013430.22184@nqv-yncgbc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484E40F7.2000200@wxs.nl>
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Morgan Brassel wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> In the following example:
>>>
>>> \define[1]\com{com\ #1}
>>> \starttext
>>> \com{1} $\com{1}$
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> the second call to \com (the one in math mode) seems to stop the
>>> compilation of the file. Is it a bug? It wasn't happening before. I'm
>>> using the latest minimals.
>>
>> Definitely a bug: the trace shows a recursive definition. \ is defined in
>> terms of itself. Looking at core-spa.tex I cannot understand why this is
>> happening.
>
> in core-spa.tex change this line:
>
> \let\normalspaceprimitive=\ % space-comment is really needed
>
> if you want to be puzzled ... try
>
> \show\
> \show\ %
Ah, interesting. I did not know that \^^M was a macro. On hindsight,
it makes sense.
Aditya
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-10 2:58 Morgan Brassel
2008-06-10 3:51 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-06-10 8:17 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-10 8:53 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-10 11:55 ` Morgan Brassel
2008-06-10 14:14 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
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