<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<div>I'm using plain TeX (MacTeX) and after the last </div><div>update to pstricks via the TeX Live Utility, it appears </div><div>that I cannot run pstricks!</div><div><br></div><div>The error I get is:</div><div><br></div><div>___________________________________________________________</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; ">we are running tex and have to define some LaTeX commands ...</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; ">`PSTricks' v2.0 <2010/02/11> (tvz)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; ">(/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.con)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; ">Runaway argument?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; ">[psset]{pstricks}{style}{\@ifundefined {pscs@##1}{\@pstrickserr {Cust\ETC.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; ">! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning use of \pst@@@checknum.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; "><inserted text> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; "> \par </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; "><to be read again> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; "> \newdimen </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; ">l.573 \newdimen</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; "> \psunit \psunit 1cm</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; ">? </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; ">_____________________________________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; ">I wish I knew what the exact problem is. Can anyone help me with this?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; ">thank you in advance,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 18px; ">chris</div></div></body></html>