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Re: Weird TeX behaviour with predumped format


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: Weird TeX behaviour with predumped format
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 21:56:54 +0000

On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 07:26:17PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Dez 25 2022, Gavin Smith wrote:
> 
> > It appears as if the line on the ** prompt is being expanded, including
> > the newline at the end.
> 
> After processing the optional &format, if the next character isn't an
> escape character then an implicit \input is prepended.  After that the
> line is processed normally.

Thanks, that seems a fairly simple rule.  I'm not sure why I didn't have
a problem with this before but I was able to work around it.

A result of this that was unexpected to me is that the expansion of an
active newline may be delayed to after the input file.



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