On 11-1-2012 15:46, luigi scarso wrote:
~ is \nobreakspace \unexpanded\def~{\nobreakspace}
and you define \def\nobreakspace{~}
i.e. an infinte loop, I suppose.
indeed, and it's a bonus that ~ == nobreakspace (although I can imagine that we'd get rid of it) but defining other macros in terms of active characters is a bad idea (in fact one can use the unicode nbsp character) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------