[tex-k] Description of scanner_status value skipping

tttex at mailbox.org tttex at mailbox.org
Sun Jun 12 17:51:52 CEST 2022


Hi all,

I noticed an apparent inaccuracy in the text of module 305 of the TeX source.

In the description of the `scanner_status` value `skipping, it states that

  "skipping, means that a subfile can safely end here, but not a file, ...",

implying that an outer control sequence can appear in passed text without
raising an error.

The implementation of `check_outer_validity` in module 336 though raises an
error in that case and the TeXbook states that
  "An outer macro cannot appear ... in conditional text that is being skipped over."

Best,
Tyge


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