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- From: cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Creating a new \LaTeX\ format file
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:16:53 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.193611.21406@galois.mit.edu>, robertb@bernoulli.mit.edu
- (Robert Becker) writes:
- [...]
- |>
- |> I copied latex.tex and sfonts.tex to my Inputs directory and ran
- |> Initex 3.14 on latex.tex. I got the following:
- |>
- |> > This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3 (INITEX) 4 JAN 1993 14:27
- |> > **latex
- |> > (latex.tex
- |> > ! Missing { inserted.
- |> > <to be read again>
- |> > {
- |> > l.4 \everyjob{
- |> > \typeout{LaTeX Version 2.09 <25 March 1992>}}}
- |> > ?
- [...]
- |>
- |> What did I do wrong?
- |>
-
- You typed 'latex' in response to the ** prompt when you should have typed
- 'lplain'. lplain.tex reads latex.tex and lfonts.tex (among other things)
- later on. INITeX starts up in a state in which not even \catcode`\{ has
- been set yet: hence the error message.
-
- It would have been much better if latex.tex had been the primary input
- file (then TeX wouldn't have to describe the preloaded format file as
- `format=lplain') but this bug has achieved the status of a feature. Any
- chance of it being done right in LaTeX 3?
-
- Chris Thompson
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