On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:17:14 +0200, Will Robertson wrote:
> On 21/08/2008, at 6:55 AM, Alan Munn wrote:
>
>> The following minimal document using the termcal package (available
>> at CTAN) fails if fontspec is loaded.
>
> How bizarre.
> I can confirm that the problem still occurs in the most recent
> versions of XeTeX and fontspec.
>
> At this stage I've got absolutely no idea why the error is occurring
> (i.e., why fontspec would affect something like this), but I'm afraid
> I don't have time to look into termcal at this stage.
I am thinking that fontspec has nothing to do with this but rather the
calc package as termcal uses \relax quite a bit to terminate numbers.
And I also think that I fixed that infelicity in calc some time ago - it
just hasn't been released yet.
Here are some excerpts from the new documentation:
% When \TeX\ is scanning for a \<number> etc.\ it is
% common to terminate the scanning with a space token or by inserting
% \cs{relax}. As of version~4.3 \textsf{calc} allows \cs{relax} tokens
% to appear in places where they would usually be used for terminating
% \TeX's scanning. In short this is just before any of \texttt{+-*/)}
% or at the end of the expression being evaluated.
% \changes{v4.3}{2007/08/22}{Discard terminating \cs{relax} tokens and
% avoid extra error message from \cs{calc at next}}
And the changed code is just this single macro:
\def\@calc at post@scan#1{%
\ifx#1!\let\calc at next\endgroup \else
\ifx#1+\let\calc at next\calc at add \else
\ifx#1-\let\calc at next\calc at subtract \else
\ifx#1*\let\calc at next\calc at multiplyx \else
\ifx#1/\let\calc at next\calc at dividex \else
\ifx#1)\let\calc at next\calc at close \else
\ifx#1\relax\let\calc at next\calc at post@scan \else
\def\calc at next{\calc at error#1}%
\fi
\fi
\fi
\fi
\fi
\fi
\fi
\calc at next}
Try adding this to your preamble after loading fontspec (and wrapping it
in \makeatletter and \makeatother of course)
--
Morten