On 20-3-2012 06:49, Kip Warner wrote:
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 06:46 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
TeX has it’s problem with certain errors, accept it.

It is not a problem with the program raising an error, it was how it
went about doing it. It should not have to take down the entire
operating system to indicate to the user that there was a non-intuitive
syntactical error in typesetting.

tex is a macro language and that has benefits but also drawbacks; as soon as you end up in unwanted expansion things can get nasty; anyhow, I get

Runaway argument?
{before=\startlinecorrection ,after= \stoplinecorrection }]{\dodoubleemptyYESone \ETC.
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [token memory size=90996078].

which is not really a crash of my operating system; there is not much I can do about this issue I fear.

Hans


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