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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Karl,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is the source code for lacheck available in a repository? I looked around but did not find it. I am not familiar enough with CTAN to have intelligent thoughts on where to look. I would be open to looking into it and possibly issuing a pull request if that were an option.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Zayd<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org><br><b>Date: </b>Friday, January 25, 2019 at 3:43 PM<br><b>To: </b><hammoudeh@gmail.com><br><b>Cc: </b><tex-live@tug.org><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [tex-live] Possible lacheck Bug Report<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> I read on the CTAN website that TeXLive is now maintaining lacheck.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Unfortunately true, since no other volunteers have come forward since<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>the original author(s) stepped down. If anyone is interested, please<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>write me.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> \newcommand{\defaultleftmargin}{0.25in}<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> ...<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> "hw01.tex", line 5: <- unmatched "end of file hw01.tex"<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> "hw01.tex", line 2: -> unmatched "{"<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It's certainly a bug. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> when \newcommand is followed by {\def*} (where * is zero or more other<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> characters). Removal of the curly brackets around \def* or any term<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> other than def causes the issue to go away.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I believe it comes from this line in lacheck.l:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>"\\"[exg]?(def|newcommand)[^\n\{]+ <span class=apple-tab-span> </span>BEGIN(DEF);<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>which I believe says a "definition" starts whenever \def followed by<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>something that is not a newline or left brace, which is clearly not the<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>case. It seems the \newcommand and \[exg]def cases should be separated<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>and made more precise.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So, if anyone is interested in playing around with the lex file, let me<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>know. Else I'll give it a try when I have a chance.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for the report. -k<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>