<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 9, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Peter Flynn wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I might toy with this in my copious spare time during those long winter evenings I hear so much about...:-)</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My long winter evenings get eaten by the work left over from the short winter afternoons! :-)</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Unfortunately this particular one was a TeX message.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Partially. LaTeX does some finagling before it hits that point (since the Plain TeX error is "undefined control sequence"), so perhaps it should (might, might could, [insert your favorite modal verb here]) intercept and issue a more informative message before it hits the base TeX error message. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Steve</DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></BODY></HTML>