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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 -- http://www.ousia.tk
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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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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 -- http://www.ousia.tk
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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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