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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I read on the CTAN website that TeXLive is now maintaining </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Courier'>lacheck</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>. I am not sure if this is the right email to be submitting this possible </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Courier'>lacheck</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> bug to (or even if you are the right folks). If this is not the right venue to which to report this issue and you know the correct venue, I would appreciate any guidance. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The description of the issue at the end of this email is from a <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/471596/false-lacheck-unmatched-error">TeX StackExchange question</a> I posted yesterday. I am pretty confident this is a false flag but I am definitely no LaTeX expert. To make sure the issue was not caused by an out of date version of </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Courier'>lacheck</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>, I updated </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Courier'>mactex</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> using </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Courier'>homebrew</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> and still see the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>If this is just one of the quirks of </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Courier'>lacheck</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> to live with, please let me know and I will go away.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thank you and Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Zayd Hammoudeh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#FEFEFB;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'>In the simple LaTeX file:<o:p></o:p></span></p><pre style='line-height:14.65pt;background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;max-height: 600px;overflow-wrap: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;overflow:auto;word-spacing:0px'><span class=kwd><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#8A4A0B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>\documentclass</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#9F393D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>{</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>report</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#9F393D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>}</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'><o:p></o:p></span></span></pre><pre style='line-height:14.65pt;background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=pln><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></pre><pre style='line-height:14.65pt;background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=kwd><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#8A4A0B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>\newcommand</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#9F393D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>{</span></span><span class=kwd><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#8A4A0B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>\defaultleftmargin</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#9F393D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>}{</span></span><span class=lit><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#953838;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>0.25in</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#9F393D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>}</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'><o:p></o:p></span></span></pre><pre style='line-height:14.65pt;background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=pln><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></pre><pre style='line-height:14.65pt;background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=kwd><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#8A4A0B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>\begin</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#9F393D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>{</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>document</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#9F393D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>}</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'><o:p></o:p></span></span></pre><pre style='background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=kwd><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#8A4A0B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>\end</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#9F393D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>{</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>document</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#9F393D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>}</span></span><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#393318'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#FEFEFB;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#FEFEFB;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'>I get the following errors with lacheck:<o:p></o:p></span></p><pre style='line-height:14.65pt;background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;max-height: 600px;overflow-wrap: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;overflow:auto;word-spacing:0px'><span class=pln><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>"hw01.tex", line 5: <- unmatched "end of file hw01.tex"<o:p></o:p></span></span></pre><pre style='background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=pln><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>"hw01.tex", line 2: -> unmatched "</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#9F393D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>{</span></span><span class=pln><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#303336;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>"</span></span><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#393318'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#FEFEFB;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#FEFEFB;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'>This is reported by Vim's syntastic running </span><code><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:#242729;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>lacheck</span></code><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'> ver. </span><code><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:#242729;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>$Id: lacheck.lex,v 1.26 1998/03/07 07:46:45 abraham Exp $</span></code><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'> on MacOS High Sierra. The issue only seems to arise when </span><code><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:#242729;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>\newcommand</span></code><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'> is followed by </span><code><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:#242729;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>{\def*}</span></code><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'> (where </span><code><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242729;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>*</span></code><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'> is zero or more other characters). Removal of the curly brackets around </span><code><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:#242729;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>\def*</span></code><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'> or any term other than </span><code><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242729;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>def</span></code><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'> causes the issue to go away.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#FEFEFB;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#FEFEFB;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'>I found an <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515897;msg=2"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>old bug report</span></a> regarding a similar issue. I did not see any talk of a fix. Is this a bug or is there something I am missing?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#FEFEFB;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#FEFEFB;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242729;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Edit</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'>: The issue appears to not be limited to </span><code><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:#242729;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>newcommand</span></code><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'>. I get the same error for the line:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#FEFEFB;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#242729'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><pre style='background:#EFF0F1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;line-height:inherit;box-sizing: inherit;max-height: 600px;overflow-wrap: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;overflow:auto;word-spacing:0px'><span class=kwd><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#8A4A0B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>\setlength</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#9F393D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>{</span></span><span class=kwd><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#8A4A0B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>\oddsidemargin</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#9F393D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>}{</span></span><span class=kwd><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#8A4A0B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>\defaultleftmargin</span></span><span class=pun><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#9F393D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#EFF0F1'>}</span></span><span style='font-family:Courier;color:#393318'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>