On 12/27/18 11:08 PM, Henri Menke wrote:
> On 12/27/18 10:43 PM, Floris van Manen wrote:
>> When trying to typeset, luatex kept complaining about incorrect parameters
>> for ‘minus’.
>> There is no \minus command in the source however.
>> So it turns out that the combination of using \quad with ‘plus’, 'minus',
>> and some more make the error appear.
>> If i rewrite minus by {minus} the error does not show up either.
>
> That's because the skips in spac-hor.mkiv are defined like this
>
> \unexpanded\def\enskip{\hskip.5\emwidth}
> \unexpanded\def\quad {\hskip \emwidth}
> \unexpanded\def\qquad {\hskip 2\emwidth}
>
> The syntax for the \hskip primitive is
>
> \hskip<glue>
>
> and the definition of <glue> is
>
> <dimen>plus<dimen>minus<dimen>
>
> So “\quad minuskel” will expand to “\hskip\emwidth minuskel”. You see
> what's going to happen? The “minus” will be interpreted as part of the
> glue definition but no <dimen> is following it, so you get an error. To
> fix the bug, the definitions in spac-hor.mkiv have to changed
>
> \unexpanded\def\enskip{\hskip.5\emwidth\relax}
> \unexpanded\def\quad {\hskip \emwidth\relax}
> \unexpanded\def\qquad {\hskip 2\emwidth\relax}
>
> As a temporary workaround you can also just copy them into your document.
There is even a comment in the TeXbook about this exact issue.
\danger Horizontal glue is created in the same way, but with ^|\hskip|
instead of\/ ^|\vskip|. For example, plain \TeX\ defines ^|\enskip| as an
abbreviation for the command `|\hskip.5em\relax|'; this skips
horizontally by
one ``^{en},'' i.e., by exactly half of an em in the current font. There
is no
stretching or shrinking in an |\enskip|. The control sequence ^|\relax|
after `|.5em|' prevents \TeX\ from thinking that a ^{keyword}
is present, in case the text following |\enskip| just happens to begin
with `|plus|' or `|minus|'.
>
>>
>>
>> \starttext
>> \quad minuskel
>> \stoptext
>>
>>
>> Where do i go wrong?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Floris
>>
>>
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