[OS X TeX] Why so severe? [Thanks]

[André Bellaïche]

Le 30 mars 07 à 09:52, Steffen Wolfrum a écrit :

> Looks like the problem I reported one month ago:
>
> Try disabling the "During File Save - Save related files" option in  
> TeXShop/Preferences/Typesetting, and see if that makes any  
> difference...
>
> Steffen

I tried, and it works ! Thanks.

In fact, I thought that LaTeX designers were progressively disabling  
all the plain TeX features. I am happy this is not the case.

André
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:10:39 +0200, André Bellaïche wrote:
>>
>> Le 29 mars 07 à 21:05, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:33 AM, André Bellaïche wrote:
>>>
>>>> The new Latex/Texlive 2007 seems to be more severe (strict, stern,
>>>> unforgiving) then the old one.
>>>>
>>>> For example, last year I had no problem with input foo, and now, if
>>>> I don't type \input{foo} (with braces), TeXShop freezes instantly
>>>> without even writing something on the console. This was not esay to
>>>> debug!
>>>>
>>>> Is this deliberate politics from the LaTeX designers ?
>>>>
>>>> André Bellaïche
>>>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> I've just tried both
>>>
>>> \documentclass{article}
>>> \begin{document}
>>> \input{foo}
>>> \end{document}
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> \documentclass{article}
>>> \begin{document}
>>> \input foo
>>> \end{document}
>>>
>>> where foo.tex contains
>>>
>>> This is \textt{foo.tex}.
>>>
>>> (note that there is a return at the end of the line) and have no
>>> difference in the output.
>>>
>>> Can you give a minimal example where there is a problem?
>>>
>>> Good Luck,
>>>
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>>>
>>  My example is :
>>
>> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
>> \begin{document}
>> \input test
>> \end{document}
>>
>> and
>>
>> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
>> \begin{document}
>> \input{test}
>> \end{document}
>>
>> The file test.tex contains only the word "test", and no carriage  
>> return.
>>
>> If I use the first version (without braces), TeXSho freezes
>> instantly, the TeXShop console does not show up, and after some time,
>> when you open the "Force to quit" window, you see the name of TeXShop
>> printed in red. There is no other choice than to quit TeXShop.
>>
>> With the second version, everything runs, the console opens up, and
>> shows the lines
>>
>> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>> \write18 enabled.
>> %&-line parsing enabled.
>> entering extended mode
>> etc.
>>
>> then the pdf window opens up, showing the text "test" printed.
>>
>> André Bellaïche
>>
>>
>>
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