[tex-live] TeX (eplain) error in updates applied 10 Jan

David Carlisle d.p.carlisle at gmail.com
Mon Jan 11 16:22:09 CET 2016


Sorry about that I'll update CTAN in a minute but if you find the commented
block for the 2.5 change, change it to say

% 2.5 define the global allocation to be the standard ones
% as extended allocation is already in use. Helps with
% compatibility with some packages that use these commands
% after loading etex.
% 2.6 avoid error from outer if used with (e)plain
\expandafter\let\csname globcount\expandafter\endcsname
                \csname newcount\endcsname
\expandafter\let\csname globdimen\expandafter\endcsname
                \csname newdimen\endcsname
\expandafter\let\csname globskip\expandafter\endcsname
                \csname newskip\endcsname
\expandafter\let\csname globmuskip\expandafter\endcsname
                \csname newmuskip\endcsname
\expandafter\let\csname globtoks\expandafter\endcsname
                \csname newtoks\endcsname
\expandafter\let\csname globmarks\expandafter\endcsname
                \csname newmarks\endcsname
% end of 2.5/2.6 change

David


On 11 January 2016 at 14:56, Michael Godfrey <michaeldgodfrey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I hope this is a useful place to report an error.
> I updated my 2015 version on 20 December 2015 and everything
> ran fine. Then I did the same update on 10Jan 2016 and found that
> when I used a  TeX script which had an \input eplain in it, I got:
>
> pdftex    bib_all
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded
> format=pdftex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./bib_all.tex (/home/godfrey/tex/macros/eplain_head.tex
> (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/eplain/eplain.tex)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/plain/graphics-pln/miniltx.tex)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etex-pkg/etex.sty
> ! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 109.
> <inserted text>
>                 \fi
> <to be read again>
>                    \globcount
> l.121 \let \globcount
>                       \newcount
> ? x
> ==========================
> After  running tlmgr restore every thing was normal again.
> The eplain_head.tex script referenced above contains:
>
> \input eplain
> \beginpackages
>   \usepackage{etex}
> %  \usepackage{sectsty}
>   \usepackage{url}
>   \usepackage[usenames]{color}
>   \usepackage{graphics}
>   \usepackage{graphicx}
>   \usepackage{epsfig,color}   % added 20 March 2014
> \endpackages
> \enablehyperlinks
> \hlopts{colormodel=,color=blue}
> \hldestopts[eq]{raise=1.7\normalbaselineskip}
> \ifpdf
>   \hlopts{bwidth=0}
> % \DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{mps}{*}{*}
> \fi
> \ifundefined{nofrench}
> \frenchspacing
> \fi
> =================================
> And, the bib_all.tex file starts with:(but this code beyond the first line
> is not reached)
> \input eplain
> \beginpackages
>   \usepackage{etex}
> %  \usepackage{sectsty}
>   \usepackage{url}
>   \usepackage[usenames]{color}
>   \usepackage{graphics}
>   \usepackage{graphicx}
>   \usepackage{epsfig,color}   % added 20 March 2014
> \endpackages
> \enablehyperlinks
> \hlopts{colormodel=,color=blue}
> \hldestopts[eq]{raise=1.7\normalbaselineskip}
> \ifpdf
>   \hlopts{bwidth=0}
> % \DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{mps}{*}{*}
> \fi
> \ifundefined{nofrench}
> \frenchspacing
> \fi
> ==============================================
> I hope that this problem can be resolved.
>
> Michael
>



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