[tex-eplain] btxmac.tex causes Runaway definition and Forbidden control sequence on compile.
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Wed Oct 11 00:01:14 CEST 2023
Hi Terry,
\input eplain
\input btxmac.tex
eplain.tex already includes btxmac.tex. There is no need to include it
separately. I didn't know this \input order caused an error. I can
probably fix that, but in practice: just \input eplain and never mind
btxmac.
After you remove the \input btxmac, you'll discover you get a second,
similar-looking error about \beginsection:
Runaway argument?
Minimal Example (with eplain, btxmac.tex and url) Hello there!
! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning use of \beginsection.
This error is because the argument to \beginsection is delimited by
\par, e.g., a blank line. Thus you need to change your input, as in:
\beginsection Minimal Example (with eplain, btxmac.tex and url)
Hello there!
Hope this helps. Thanks for posting a runnable example :). -k
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