[OS X TeX] block comment

[George Gratzer]

On Nov 17, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Piet van Oostrum wrote:

>>>>>> Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at mac.com> (BV) wrote:
>
>> BV> Le 16 nov. 05 à 21:45, George Gratzer a écrit :
>>>> P.S. TeXShop does not like my book; it refuses to typeset it. It  
>>>> says:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
>>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
>>>> loading : Context Support Macros / Miscellaneous (2004.10.26)
>>>> ! Missing endcsname inserted.
>>>> <to be read again>
>>>> relax
>>>> l.152 ...contextobject \donetrue \do \newif\ifdone
>>>> \fi
>>>> ?
>>>> Process aborted
>
>> BV> This happens when LaTeX is processing the ConTeXt macro file  
>> supp-
>> BV> mis.tex. Why this file (and the accompanying supp-pdf.tex) is  
>> read in
>> BV> LaTeX is beyond me. At some point if I remember correctly they  
>> were  even
>> BV> included during the compilation of the LaTeX format. Are  
>> these  files
>> BV> called explicitly in your document TheLaTeXBook.tex?
>
> supp-pdf.tex is input by the graphics package in pdflatex mode, to
> facilitate the inclusion of metapost graphics.
> -- 
> Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
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So what does this mean to me? Can I avoid it by changing the  
preferences of TeXShop?

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