On Sat, 14 May 2016, Hans Åberg wrote:

>
>> On 14 May 2016, at 01:25, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
>> installing and running the garden distribution is quite simple (as is updating) .. there are less files too (so no big burden to have it alongside tex live)
>
> With this installation, I get a strange bug:
>
> In the example below, the first integral gets ‘limits' in the displayed 
> formula, as though ‘nolimits’ has not been defined. It works if one puts 
> a character before the first integral sign. So it seems that the 
> \startformula command misses the ∫ definition on the first non-space 
> character.

I haven't debugged this, but my guess is that the int symbol is read 
before \everymathematics is executed (because \startformula is looking 
ahead for the optional arguments in [...] and the only way to do so is 
read the next symbol and check if it is [).

Use
\startformula\relax
...
\stopformula

Aditya