Re: Problem with '\ ' in math commands in current minimals

[Morgan Brassel <morgan.brassel@free.fr>]

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\ %

Thank you for this fast correction, Hans. By the way, I have a small 
question about updating the minimals tree: which command must be used 
preferably?

* ctxtools --contextupdate

or

* first-setup.sh another time as suggested on
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals

Many thanks,
Morgan

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