[OS X TeX] block comment

[George Gratzer]

On Nov 17, 2005, at 5:17 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 16 nov. 05 à 21:45, George Gratzer a écrit :
>
>> P.S. TeXShop does not like my book; it refuses to typeset it. It  
>> says:
>>
>> [...]
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
>> loading : Context Support Macros / Miscellaneous (2004.10.26)
>> ! Missing endcsname inserted.
>> <to be read again>
>>                    relax
>> l.152 ...contextobject \donetrue \do \newif\ifdone
>>                                                    \fi
>> ?
>> Process aborted
>
> This happens when LaTeX is processing the ConTeXt macro file supp- 
> mis.tex. Why this file (and the accompanying supp-pdf.tex) is read  
> in LaTeX is beyond me. At some point if I remember correctly they  
> were even included during the compilation of the LaTeX format. Are  
> these files called explicitly in your document TheLaTeXBook.tex?
>
> The error looks like an incompatibility between redefinitions you  
> might have done (for example in TheLaTeXBook.sty) and those inside  
> supp-mis.tex. In particular, the error message you get looks like  
> those when a command that should have been \protect'ed hasn't, and  
> you will notice that supp-mis.tex fusses with \protect and \unprotect.
>
> I searched through the whole /usr/local/teTeX/ with BBEdit for  
> occurrences of supp-mis.tex. It seems to be included by mptopdf and  
> mfpic; see also /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/pdftex/ 
> examples/example.tex.

So a logical question to raise: if I just want to LaTeX ( I do not  
want  mptopdf and mfpic, whatever they are), can I set my system not  
to include supp-mis.tex ?

GG


>
> Hope this helps,
>
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