Bug#447559: [dev-context] Bug#447559: chemtex is broken again

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Dear Soeren, 

could you please take your time and answer Hans's question, otherwise we
cannot proceed with this bug report.

Thanks a lot

Norbert


On Mi, 14 Nov 2007, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> >On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 16:18 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >>Norbert Preining wrote:
> >>>forwarded 447559 dev-context@ntg.nl
> >>>thanks
> >>>
> >>>Hi Hans, hi all!
> >>>
> >>>We got the following bug report for the Debian package, but I guess that
> >>>should be fixed upstream:
> >>for latex, ppchtex is loaded via ppchtex.noc which says ...
> >>
> >>\let\normalunexpanded\unexpanded
> >>
> >>\input supp-mis.tex  \let\writestatus\undefined
> >>\input syst-gen.tex
> >>\input syst-fnt.tex
> >>
> >>\let\unexpanded\normalunexpanded
> >>
> >>(\unexpanded is an etex primitive but context had an \unexpanded before 
> >>etex came around; same for \protected as primitive; so here we push and 
> >>pop the meanings)
> >>
> >>so, i wonder if this user loads ppchtex in the right way
> >>
> >>(maybe i should make a derived version for latex usage - given that 
> >>there are users - in which case i can also cleanup and optimize the 
> >>context variant, but it has low priotity)
> >
> >OK I got like two reports from different users who exactly had the same
> >problem.
> >
> >One fixed it by simply inputting everythin in the .tex file:
> >
> >\input supp-mis.tex 
> >\input syst-gen.tex
> >\input syst-fnt.tex
> >\input m-pictex.tex
> >\input m-ch-en.tex
> >
> >the other removed the lines
> >
> >\let\normalunexpanded\unexpanded
> >\let\unexpanded\normalunexpanded
> >
> >from ppchtex.nox .
> >
> >Then it worked for both.
> >
> >So whatever you do please fix it as it is a bug that does not only annoy
> >me or alternatively tell us please how to correctly use m-ch-en ...
> 
> well, does the
> 
> \let\normalunexpanded\unexpanded
> 
> \input supp-mis.tex  \let\writestatus\undefined
> \input syst-gen.tex
> \input syst-fnt.tex
> 
> \let\unexpanded\normalunexpanded
> 
> method work?
> 
> i cannot test it since i only run context
> 
> Hans

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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>        Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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