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