On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 07:26:17PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Dez 25 2022, Gavin Smith wrote: > > > It appears as if the line on the ** prompt is being expanded, including > > the newline at the end. > > After processing the optional &format, if the next character isn't an > escape character then an implicit \input is prepended. After that the > line is processed normally.
Thanks, that seems a fairly simple rule. I'm not sure why I didn't have a problem with this before but I was able to work around it. A result of this that was unexpected to me is that the expansion of an active newline may be delayed to after the input file.
