From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41525 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Problem with '\ ' in math commands in current minimals Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:14:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <484E40F7.2000200@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213107265 6594 80.91.229.12 (10 Jun 2008 14:14:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:14:25 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jun 10 16:15:05 2008 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 1K64cV-00056q-Em for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:14:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B11881FD02; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:13:48 +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 24121-03-21; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:12:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66ACC1FC44; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:12:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2B51FC36 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:12:54 +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 26237-01-11 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:12:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.160]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33721FC93 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:12:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM adi-laptop.local (c-68-40-40-75.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.40.75]) BY skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 484E8BBC.B6F99.9468 ; 10 Jun 2008 10:12:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <484E40F7.2000200@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) 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:41525 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________