Bug#404076: tetex-bin: Including \and in \title body causes compiler to enter infinite loop

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ivo van der Sangen <i.g.j.v.d.sangen@student.tue.nl> wrote:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 3.0-27
> Severity: normal
>
> While using a \title tag and using a \and inside the body of the tag the
> compiler enters an infinite loop after outputting some errors.
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \title{text \and text}
> \begin{document}
> \maketitle
> text
> \end{document}

Err, yes.  TeX is a touring-complete language.  If you put errors in a
document, you can produce all kinds of behavior, including endless
loops.

Quoting l2short:

,---- 2.7 Titles, Chapters, and Sections
| In the argument to \author, you can supply several names separated by
| \and commands.
`----

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)