Bug#204357: tetex-bin: latex "help" messages: when \ ommitted from \newcommand error message is not helpful

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

reassign 204357 texlive-latex-base
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On 07.08.03 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
> "Karl M. Hegbloom" <hegbloom@pdx.edu> schrieb:

Hi,

> > When a "\newcommand" argument does not start with the "\", the
> > error messages indicate that there is a missing \begin{document},
> > and the help message (as displayed by aucTeX) says that output
> > was produced prior to the \begin{document}.  It does not in any
> > way indicate that the "\" was missing, and should.
> 
> Yes, that would be nice. However, this is something deep in the
> bowels of LaTeX.  (In other words, it's clearly something to be
> forwarded upstream, not even to the tetex maintainters, but to the
> LaTeX team).
> 
Time to move all bugs from the teTeX packages to the TL packages.

As Frank found out this is probably an issue in the LaTeX kernel,
hence texlive-latex-base is the correct package.

H.
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