[XeTeX] Conflict between fontspec and termcal

[Alan Munn]

Thanks, Morten.  That did indeed fix the problem. 
Will the newer version of calc be released with 
TeXLive 2008?


Alan

At 11:31 AM +0200 8/21/08, Morten Høgholm wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:17:14 +0200, Will Robertson wrote:
>
>>  On 21/08/2008, at 6:55 AM, Alan Munn wrote:
>>
>>>  The following minimal document using the termcal package (available
>>>  at CTAN) fails if fontspec is loaded.
>>
>>  How bizarre.
>>  I can confirm that the problem still occurs in the most recent
>>  versions of XeTeX and fontspec.
>>
>>  At this stage I've got absolutely no idea why the error is occurring
>>  (i.e., why fontspec would affect something like this), but I'm afraid
>>  I don't have time to look into termcal at this stage.
>
>I am thinking that fontspec has nothing to do with this but rather the 
>calc package as termcal uses \relax quite a bit to terminate numbers.
>
>And I also think that I fixed that infelicity in calc some time ago - it 
>just hasn't been released yet.
>
>Here are some excerpts from the new documentation:
>
>% When \TeX\ is scanning for a \<number> etc.\ it is
>% common to terminate the scanning with a space token or by inserting
>% \cs{relax}. As of version~4.3 \textsf{calc} allows \cs{relax} tokens
>% to appear in places where they would usually be used for terminating
>% \TeX's scanning. In short this is just before any of \texttt{+-*/)}
>% or at the end of the expression being evaluated.
>
>% \changes{v4.3}{2007/08/22}{Discard terminating \cs{relax} tokens and
>%   avoid extra error message from \cs{calc at next}}
>
>
>And the changed code is just this single macro:
>
>\def\@calc at post@scan#1{%
>    \ifx#1!\let\calc at next\endgroup \else
>      \ifx#1+\let\calc at next\calc at add \else
>        \ifx#1-\let\calc at next\calc at subtract \else
>          \ifx#1*\let\calc at next\calc at multiplyx \else
>            \ifx#1/\let\calc at next\calc at dividex \else
>              \ifx#1)\let\calc at next\calc at close \else
>                \ifx#1\relax\let\calc at next\calc at post@scan \else
>                  \def\calc at next{\calc at error#1}%
>                \fi
>              \fi
>            \fi
>          \fi
>        \fi
>      \fi
>    \fi
>    \calc at next}
>
>
>Try adding this to your preamble after loading fontspec (and wrapping it 
>in \makeatletter and \makeatother of course)
>--
>Morten
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