On Friday, 1 May 2026 23:34:34 BST Sebastien Peterson-Boudreau wrote: > > If you put .LP at the start of your document the error is resolved. Now > > for > > the technical reason why you get an infinite loop! > > > > When ms starts up most of its macros are aliased to LP, (to prevent using > > them before the first real LP). So your aliasing/renaming actually points > > FOO to LP. The first call to LP eventually results in NH being aliased to > > @NH (the real guts of what NH does) and LP being aliased to @LP, but your > > alias occurs before that has happened. This confuses ms as much as it > > confuses me! But the result is that a loop is formed with FOO/LP calling > > itself. > > > > The moral of the story is to always use one of the macros initially > > aliased to LP (or LP itself) first (after using the macros for the cover > > - if any). > Thanks! That makes sense. > > I'm wondering if there is any way to reconcile this with the need to > call RP first (if used). Say I'm writing a tmac file that I want to > source at the start of the document, before I call any macros, and > within this file I want to rename NH; I cannot call any ms macros > within this file, because it will be sourced at the start of the > document, before the RP call. Is there any resolution? > > Thanks!
You might try:- .als FOO @NH I.e. what NH becomes after ms has initialised itself, at least it won't cause a loop. Of course you can't actually use FOO until ms has initialised, but at least you can do the alias early and start the document:- .FOO 1 Foontastic to get a level 1 heading. (not tested). Cheers Deri
