on the \show command

on the \show command

[Pablo Rodriguez]

Dear list,

I have discovered today the \show command in TeX. But I cannot get it
work in ConTeXt:

\starttext
\show\input
\stoptext

What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks for your help,


Pablo
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Re: on the \show command

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I have discovered today the \show command in TeX. But I cannot get it
> work in ConTeXt:
>
> \starttext
> \show\input
> \stoptext

When I compile using `context filename` I get:

....
> \input=\protected macro:
->\normalinput .

system          > tex > error on line 3 in file /tmp/test.tex: ? ...

which shows that \input is a protected macro that maps to \normalinput.

BTW, you can also run

context --pipe

to start an interactive session.

Aditya
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Re: on the \show command

[Pablo Rodriguez]

On 01/29/2014 07:39 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>> [...]
>> I have discovered today the \show command in TeX. But I cannot get it
>> work in ConTeXt:
> [...] 
> 
> BTW, you can also run
> 
> context --pipe
> 
> to start an interactive session.

Many thanks, Aditya.

This is a way to solve it.

Although the error message seems misleading to me.


Pablo
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Re: on the \show command

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

> On 01/29/2014 07:39 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I have discovered today the \show command in TeX. But I cannot get it
>>> work in ConTeXt:
>> [...]
>>
>> BTW, you can also run
>>
>> context --pipe
>>
>> to start an interactive session.
>
> Many thanks, Aditya.
>
> This is a way to solve it.
>
> Although the error message seems misleading to me.

TeX error message are always misleading :) Here is a list of messages you 
can get:

http://www.math.mun.ca/tex-archive/systems/knuth/local/tex/tex.pool

and some hints on how to understand the error messages:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=erroradvice
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=errstruct

Aditya
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