What could possibly be wrong with 'P'?
Here is a really odd one that I have a simple workaround for, but for
the life of me I cannot work out why this is happening. Is 'p' (or 'P')
some sort of restricted letter in certain circumstances?
Here is the issue:
\startdocument
[metadata:author={Author name},
metadata:title={Psalms}]
And I get an error. Document will not compile. Any other initial letter
than 'p' (in Psalms) does not produce the error.
So if I do something like:
\startdocument
[metadata:author={Janet Dawson},
metadata:title={~Psalms}]
Then I no longer get the problem. Which just seems to confirm the fact
that it is the initial letter 'p' that is the problem. I can also change
the spelling of 'psalms' (anything really, asalms, xsalms) and there is
no problem, but of course that would be silly.
I have never had this issue before, so while it looks like 'p' is the
problem (it can hardly be the Psalms!), it is possibly something else,
but what, I would not know. If it helps, I am calling in that
metadata:title in the header in the usual way, e.g.:
\setupheadertexts
[ ] [{\getmarking[chapter]\hskip1em \pagenumber}]
[] [ {\pagenumber \hskip1em \documentvariable{metadata:title}}]
But that should not be a problem.
Below is the error log, but it refers to line 346, which happens to be
\stopfrontmatter so does not seem relevant. However, it is my previous
experience that sometimes this is telling me that the error is somewhere
in the frontmatter, not necessarily on that final line.
return { ["errortype"]=0, ["filename"]="./test.tex",
["lastcontext"]="\n<macro> \n Ps\n alms\n<argument> \n {\\pagenumber
\\hskip 1em \\documentvariable {metadata:title}\n }\n<macro>
\\secondoftwoarguments \n #-#1->#1\n<macro>
\\page_layouts_process_element_single \n ...content {\\detokenize
{#1}}\\ifcsname \\??layouttextspecial \\m_page_layouts_element_content
\\endcsname \\lastnamedcs \\else \\doifelsemarking
\\m_page_layouts_element_content {\\getmarking
[\\m_page_layouts_element_content ][\\v!first ]}{#1}\n \\fi \n<macro>
\\page_layouts_process_element_indeed \n ...andcolor #1#2\\begincsname
\\??layouttextstrut \\layoutelementparameter \\c!strut \\endcsname
\\ignorecrlf \\edef \\p_width {\\layoutelementparameter #3}\\ifempty
\\p_width \\else \\expandafter \\page_layouts_process_element_limited
\\fi \\p_text \n \\endgroup \n<macro> \\currentlayoutelement \n ...h
\\bgroup \\page_layouts_place_extra_text_left \\hss \\egroup \\kern
-\\makeupwidth \\fi \\else \\hbox to \\makeupwidth \\bgroup
\\page_layouts_place_extra_text_left
\\page_layouts_process_element_indeed \\c!leftstyle \\c!leftcolor
\\c!leftwidth \n \\hss \\egroup ...\n ...\n\n
jbf schrieb am 10.09.2024 um 02:36:
Here is a really odd one that I have a simple workaround for, but for the life of me I cannot work out why this is happening. Is 'p' (or 'P') some sort of restricted letter in certain circumstances?
Here is the issue:
\startdocument
[metadata:author={Author name},
metadata:title={Psalms}]
1. This is *not* a complete minimal working example. 2. The following example works (with and without \setupinteraction) here with the latest version. \setupinteraction[state=start] \startdocument [metadata:author={Author name}, metadata:title={Psalms}] Psalms. \stopdocument
And I get an error. Document will not compile. Any other initial letter than 'p' (in Psalms) does not produce the error.
So if I do something like:
\startdocument
[metadata:author={Janet Dawson},
metadata:title={~Psalms}]
Then I no longer get the problem. Which just seems to confirm the fact that it is the initial letter 'p' that is the problem. I can also change the spelling of 'psalms' (anything really, asalms, xsalms) and there is no problem, but of course that would be silly.
I have never had this issue before, so while it looks like 'p' is the problem (it can hardly be the Psalms!), it is possibly something else, but what, I would not know. If it helps, I am calling in that metadata:title in the header in the usual way, e.g.:
\setupheadertexts
[ ] [{\getmarking[chapter]\hskip1em \pagenumber}]
[] [ {\pagenumber \hskip1em \documentvariable{metadata:title}}]
But that should not be a problem.
The \hskip is a problem because the commands is looking for additional parameters and when it encounters the "p" at the beginning of metadata:title it assumes you set the plus parameter. To prevent the error either add a \relax after the dimension (i.e. \hskip1em\relax) or use \quad which inserts a horizontal space of 1em. Wolfgang
Thanks for this. I can understand now where the problem lies, and sorry about the minimal example, but I had hoped that the three items I gave (the metadata info, the \setupheadertexts and the error message) was in fact a minimal example. I should have placed the \setupheadertexts immediately after the \startdocument, I guess. But just the same, grateful for your patience and clarity. Julian On 10/9/24 13:25, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
jbf schrieb am 10.09.2024 um 02:36:
Here is a really odd one that I have a simple workaround for, but for the life of me I cannot work out why this is happening. Is 'p' (or 'P') some sort of restricted letter in certain circumstances?
Here is the issue:
\startdocument
[metadata:author={Author name},
metadata:title={Psalms}]
1. This is *not* a complete minimal working example.
2. The following example works (with and without \setupinteraction) here with the latest version.
\setupinteraction[state=start]
\startdocument [metadata:author={Author name}, metadata:title={Psalms}]
Psalms.
\stopdocument
And I get an error. Document will not compile. Any other initial letter than 'p' (in Psalms) does not produce the error.
So if I do something like:
\startdocument
[metadata:author={Janet Dawson},
metadata:title={~Psalms}]
Then I no longer get the problem. Which just seems to confirm the fact that it is the initial letter 'p' that is the problem. I can also change the spelling of 'psalms' (anything really, asalms, xsalms) and there is no problem, but of course that would be silly.
I have never had this issue before, so while it looks like 'p' is the problem (it can hardly be the Psalms!), it is possibly something else, but what, I would not know. If it helps, I am calling in that metadata:title in the header in the usual way, e.g.:
\setupheadertexts
[ ] [{\getmarking[chapter]\hskip1em \pagenumber}]
[] [ {\pagenumber \hskip1em \documentvariable{metadata:title}}]
But that should not be a problem.
The \hskip is a problem because the commands is looking for additional parameters and when it encounters the "p" at the beginning of metadata:title it assumes you set the plus parameter.
To prevent the error either add a \relax after the dimension (i.e. \hskip1em\relax) or use \quad which inserts a horizontal space of 1em.
Wolfgang
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