rocky@kundry.kundry.watson.ibm.com (Rocky Bernstein) (08/04/90)
Has anyone else run into this problem? After weaving tex.web or bibtex.web
which I got today off of labrea.stanford.edu I get the error message:
! Missing # inserted
<inserted text>
$
<to be read again>
\cdot
\E->\cdot
...
At this point in the text (line 610 of tex.tex) what is really input is \ETs.
Looking at tex.web on line 69 we have:
\catcode`E=13 \uppercase{\def E{e}}
But E is never catcoded back to 11, which I think explains the problem.
The same code appears in bibtex.web on line 65.
A fix of course is to add \catcode`E=11 a couple of lines down.
I find it hard to believe that I've found a bug, since I find it hard to
believe that no one has TeX'ed tex.web or bibtex.web. So what am I missing?
R. Bernstein
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Hts, NY
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R. Bernsteindhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (08/06/90)
In article <ROCKY.90Aug3184920@kundry.kundry.watson.ibm.com>, rocky@kundry.kundry.watson.ibm.com (Rocky Bernstein) writes... >Has anyone else run into this problem? After weaving tex.web or bibtex.web >which I got today off of labrea.stanford.edu I get the error message: >! Missing # inserted ><inserted text> > $ ><to be read again> > \cdot >\E->\cdot >.... >At this point in the text (line 610 of tex.tex) what is really input is \ETs. >Looking at tex.web on line 69 we have: >\catcode`E=13 \uppercase{\def E{e}} It's a demi-bug and I've been working on a workaround for a while. The reason for the catcode change is that the WEAVE'd output prints identifiers like TEX_inputs with a dropped E. This is accomplished by making E active. This works fine *except* where E is used in a control sequence. And Knuth added control sequences \ET and \ETs to the WEAVE'd output for WEAVE 4.1. The quick and easy workaround is to modify your change file to eliminate the catcode stuff. Where it gets tricky is in trying to get TeX to still drop the E *and* do everything else right as well... -dh --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont Consulting and dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu production work. Free Estimates. dhosek@ymir.bitnet uunet!jarthur!ymir Phone: 714-625-0147