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| print_err("Emergency stop"); help1(s); succumb; | |
| -- | |
| help1("I'm broken. Please show this to someone who can fix can fix"); | |
| -- | |
| help1("The magnification ratio must be between 1 and 32768."); | |
| -- | |
| help1("I'm forgetting what you said and using zero for this \the."); | |
| -- | |
| help1("I'm forgetting what you said and using zero for this \the."); | |
| -- | |
| help1("I'm going to assume that 1mu=1pt when they're mixed."); | |
| -- | |
| help1("I dddon't go any higher than filll."); error; | |
| -- | |
| help1("I'm going to ignore the # sign you just used."); error; | |
| -- | |
| help1("This \read has unbalanced braces."); | |
| -- | |
| help1("I'm ignoring this; it doesn't match any \if."); | |
| -- | |
| help1("I was expecting to see `<', `=', or `>'. Didn't."); | |
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| help1("I'm ignoring this; it doesn't match any \if."); | |
| -- | |
| help1("(See Appendix H.)"); error; | |
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| help1("(See Appendix H.)"); error; cur_chr←127; | |
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| help1("(See Appendix H.)"); error; | |
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| help1("Things are pretty mixed up, but I think the worst is over.");@/ | |
| -- | |
| help1("I'm changing to \insert0; box 255 is special."); | |
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| help1("Discretionary lists must contain only text characters.");@/ | |
| -- | |
| help1("I'm guessing that you meant to end an alignment here."); | |
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| help1("I'm ignoring this, since I wasn't doing a \csname."); | |
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| help1("I'm ignoring this misplaced \limits or \nolimits command."); error; | |
| -- | |
| help1("I treat `x↑1↑2' essentially like `x↑1{}↑2'."); | |
| -- | |
| help1("I treat `x↓1↓2' essentially like `x↓1{}↓2'."); | |
| -- | |
| help1("I'm ignoring a \right that had no matching \left."); | |
| -- | |
| help1("I'll pretend you didn't say \long or \outer or \global."); | |
| -- | |
| help1("I'll pretend you didn't say \long or \outer here."); | |
| -- | |
| help1("I'm going to use 0 instead of that illegal code value.");@/ | |
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| help1("I allow only values in the range 1..32767 here."); | |
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| help1("I allow only nonnegative values here."); | |
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| if err_help_seen then help1("(That was another \errmessage.)") | |
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| help1("Next time say, e.g., `\show\cs'."); | |
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| help1("`{...\dump}' is a no-no."); succumb; | |
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| help2("I have just deleted some text, as you asked.")@/ | |
| ("You can now delete more, or insert, or whatever."); | |
| -- | |
| help2("Sorry, I don't know how to help in this situation.")@/ | |
| ("Maybe you should try asking a human?"); | |
| -- | |
| help2("If you really absolutely need more capacity,")@/ | |
| ("you can ask a wizard to enlarge me."); | |
| -- | |
| help2("One of your earlier faux pas has wounded me deeply,")@/ | |
| ("so I'm barely conscious. Please fix it and try again."); | |
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| help2("I can handle only one magnification ratio per job. So I've")@/ | |
| ("reverted to the magnification you used earlier on this run.");@/ | |
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| help2("A funny symbol that I can't read has just been input.")@/ | |
| ("Continue, and I'll forget that it ever happened.");@/ | |
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| help2("The control sequence marked <to be read again> should")@/ | |
| ("not appear between \csname and \endcsname."); | |
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| help2("The numeric code for a character must be between 0 and 127.")@/ | |
| ("I changed this one to zero."); int_error(cur_val); cur_val←0; | |
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| help2("Boxes, counts, dimens, and skips must be between 0 and 255.")@/ | |
| ("I changed this one to zero."); int_error(cur_val); cur_val←0; | |
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| help2("Since I expected to read a number between 0 and 15,")@/ | |
| ("I changed this one to zero."); int_error(cur_val); cur_val←0; | |
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| help2("A character or register number must be between 0 and 255.")@/ | |
| ("I changed this one to zero."); int_error(cur_val); cur_val←0; | |
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| help2("A numeric math code must be between 0 and 32767.")@/ | |
| ("I changed this one to zero."); int_error(cur_val); cur_val←0; | |
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| help2("A numeric delimiter code must be between 0 and 2↑{27}-1.")@/ | |
| ("I changed this one to zero."); int_error(cur_val); cur_val←0; | |
| -- | |
| help2("A one-character control sequence belongs after a ` mark.")@/ | |
| ("So I'm essentially inserting \0 here."); | |
| -- | |
| help2("I can only go up to 2147483647='17777777777=""7FFFFFFF,")@/ | |
| ("so I'm using that number instead of yours."); | |
| -- | |
| help2("I can't work with sizes bigger than about 19 feet.")@/ | |
| ("Continue and I'll use the largest value I can.");@/ | |
| -- | |
| help2("Where was the left brace? You said something like `\def\a}',")@/ | |
| ("which I'm going to interpret as `\def\a{}'."); error; goto found; | |
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| help2("I've inserted the digit you should have used after the #.")@/ | |
| ("Type `1' to delete what you did use."); back_error; | |
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| help2("I was looking for a control sequence whose")@/ | |
| ("current meaning has been defined by \font."); | |
| -- | |
| help2("To increase the number of font parameters, you must")@/ | |
| ("use \texinfo immediately after the \font is loaded."); | |
| -- | |
| help2("The page just created is more than 18 feet tall or")@/ | |
| ("more than 18 feet wide, so I suspect something went wrong."); | |
| -- | |
| help2("Hyphenation exceptions must contain only letters")@/ | |
| ("and hyphens. But continue; I'll forgive and forget."); | |
| -- | |
| help2("Letters in \hyphenation words must have \lccode>0.")@/ | |
| ("Proceed; I'll ignore the character I just read."); | |
| -- | |
| help2("The box you are trying to split is an \hbox.")@/ | |
| ("I can't split such a box, so I'll leave it alone."); | |
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| help2("You shouldn't use \box255 except in \output routines.")@/ | |
| ("Proceed, and I'll discard its present contents."); | |
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| help2("Your sneaky output routine has fewer real {'s than }'s.")@/ | |
| ("I can't handle that very well; good luck."); error; | |
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| help2("I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think")@/ | |
| ("you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed."); ins_error; | |
| -- | |
| help2("You've closed more groups than you opened.")@/ | |
| ("Such booboos are generally harmless, so keep going."); error; | |
| -- | |
| help2("Sorry...I'm usually unable to take things from the current")@/ | |
| ("page. This \lastbox will therefore be void."); error; | |
| -- | |
| help2("I'm working on `\vsplit<box number> to <dimen>';")@/ | |
| ("will look for the <dimen> next."); error; | |
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| help2("To put a horizontal rule in an hbox or an alignment,")@/ | |
| ("you should use \leaders or \hrulefill (see The TeXbook)."); | |
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| help2("Sorry...I'm usually unable to take things from the current")@/ | |
| ("page. Try `I\vskip\minusthe\lastskip' instead."); error; | |
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| help2("Sorry, Pandora. (You sneaky devil.)")@/ | |
| ("I refuse to unbox an \hbox in vertical mode or vice versa.");@/ | |
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| help2("Sorry: The third part of a discretionary break must be")@/ | |
| ("empty, in math formulas. I had to delete your third part."); | |
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| help2("Wow---I never thought anybody would tweak me here.")@/ | |
| ("You can't seriously need such a huge discretionary list?"); | |
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| help2("I expect to see \noalign only after the \cr of")@/ | |
| ("an alignment. Proceed, and I'll ignore this case."); error; | |
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| help2("I expect to see \omit only after tab marks or the \cr of")@/ | |
| ("an alignment. Proceed, and I'll ignore this case."); error; | |
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| help2("I'm changing \accent to \mathaccent here; wish me luck.")@/ | |
| ("(Accents are not the same in formulas as they are in text.)"); | |
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| help2("The `$' that I just saw supposedly matches a previous `$$'.")@/ | |
| ("So I shall assume that you typed `$$' both times."); | |
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| help2("Displays can use special alignments (like \eqalignno)")@/ | |
| ("only if nothing but the alignment itself is between $$'s."); | |
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| help2("You should have said `\read<number> to \cs'.")@/ | |
| ("I'm going to look for the \cs now."); error; | |
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| help2("I can't carry out that multiplication or division,")@/ | |
| ("since the result is out of range."); | |
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| help2("I didn't do the arithmetic because you have to tell")@/ | |
| ("me by what; e.g., `\advcount 0 by 1'."); | |
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| help2("I can only handle fonts at positive sizes that are")@/ | |
| ("less than 2048pt, so I've changed what you said to 10pt."); | |
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| help2("You should say, e.g., `\font\ffn=fontfilename'.")@/ | |
| ("(I'm going to ignore the \font command you just gave.)"); | |
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| help2("On this page there's a \write with fewer real {'s than }'s.")@/ | |
| ("I can't handle that very well; good luck."); error; | |
| |help3("This is the first line of my offer to help.")|\cr | |
| |("This is the second line. I'm trying to")|\cr | |
| |("explain the best way for you to proceed.");|\cr | |
| -- | |
| help3("You rang?")@/ | |
| ("Try to insert some instructions for me (e.g.,`I\showlists'),")@/ | |
| ("unless you just want to quit by typing `X'."); | |
| -- | |
| help3("A forbidden control sequence occurred in skipped text.")@/ | |
| ("This kind of error happens when you say `\if...' and forget")@/ | |
| ("the matching `\fi'. I've inserted a `\fi'; this might work."); | |
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| help3("I suspect you've forgotten a `}', causing me to apply this")@/ | |
| ("control sequence to too much text. How can we recover?")@/ | |
| ("My plan is to forget the whole thing and hope for the best."); | |
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| help3("A number should have been here; I inserted `0'.")@/ | |
| ("(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,")@/ | |
| ("look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.)"); | |
| -- | |
| help3("You meant to type ## instead of #, right?")@/ | |
| ("Or maybe a } was forgotten somewhere earlier, and things")@/ | |
| ("are all screwed up? I'm going to assume that you meant ##."); | |
| -- | |
| help3("Displays can use special alignments (like \eqalignno)")@/ | |
| ("only if nothing but the alignment itself is between $$'s.")@/ | |
| ("So I've deleted the formulas that preceded this alignment."); | |
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| help3("There should be exactly one # between &'s, when an")@/ | |
| ("\halign or \valign is being set up. In this case you had")@/ | |
| ("none, so I've put one in; maybe that will work."); | |
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| help3("There should be exactly one # between &'s, when an")@/ | |
| ("\halign or \valign is being set up. In this case you had")@/ | |
| ("more than one, so I'm ignoring all but the first."); | |
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| help3("You have given more \span or & marks than there were")@/ | |
| ("in the preamble to the \halign or \valign now in progress.")@/ | |
| ("So I'll assume that you meant to type \cr instead."); | |
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| help3("I've concluded that your \output is awry; it never does a")@/ | |
| ("\shipout, so I'm shipping \box255 out myself. Next time")@/ | |
| ("increase \maxdeadcycles if you want me to be more patient!"); error; | |
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| help3("Your \output commands should empty \box255,")@/ | |
| ("e.g., by saying `\shipout\box255'.")@/ | |
| ("Proceed; I'll discard its present contents."); | |
| -- | |
| help3("You should say `\leaders <box or rule><hskip or vskip>'.")@/ | |
| ("I found the <box or rule>, but there's no suitable")@/ | |
| ("<hskip or vskip>, so I'm ignoring these leaders."); error; | |
| -- | |
| help3("I was expecting to see \hbox or \vbox or \copy or \box or")@/ | |
| ("something like that. So you might find something missing in")@/ | |
| ("your output. But keep trying; you can fix this later."); back_error; | |
| -- | |
| help3("Please don't say \count or \dimen or \skip in the midst of")@/ | |
| ("a paragraph or formula. I'm going to assume that you")@/ | |
| ("meant to say `\the\count' or `\the\dimen' or `\the\skip'."); | |
| -- | |
| help3("I've put in what seems to be necessary to fix")@/ | |
| ("the current column of the current alignment.")@/ | |
| ("Try to go on, since this might almost work."); ins_error; | |
| -- | |
| help3("I'm ignoring this fraction specification, since I don't")@/ | |
| ("know whether a construction like `x \over y \over z'")@/ | |
| ("means `{x \over y} \over z' or `x \over {y \over z}'."); | |
| -- | |
| help3("Sorry, but I can't typeset math unless \textfont 2")@/ | |
| ("and \scriptfont 2 and \scriptscriptfont 2 have all")@/ | |
| ("the texinfo needed in math symbol fonts."); | |
| -- | |
| help3("Sorry, but I can't typeset math unless \textfont 3")@/ | |
| ("and \scriptfont 3 and \scriptscriptfont 3 have all")@/ | |
| ("the texinfo needed in math extension fonts."); | |
| -- | |
| help3("This isn't an error message; I'm just \showing something.") | |
| @t\4\4@>@/ | |
| ("Type `I\show...' to show more (e.g., \show\cs,")@/ | |
| help4("Sorry, I already gave what help I could...")@/ | |
| ("Maybe you should try asking a human?")@/ | |
| ("An error might have occurred before I noticed any problems.")@/ | |
| ("``If all else fails, read the instructions.''"); | |
| -- | |
| help4("I suspect you have forgotten a `}', causing me")@/ | |
| ("to read past where you wanted me to stop.")@/ | |
| ("I'll try to recover; but if the error is serious,")@/ | |
| ("you'd better type `E' or `X' now and fix your file.");@/ | |
| -- | |
| help4("If you say, e.g., `\def\a1{...}', then you must always")@/ | |
| ("put `1' after `\a', since control sequence names are")@/ | |
| ("made up of letters only. The macro here has not been")@/ | |
| ("followed by the required stuff, so I'm ignoring it."); | |
| -- | |
| help4("A left brace was mandatory here, so I've put one in.")@/ | |
| ("You might want to delete and/or insert some corrections")@/ | |
| ("so that I will find a matching right brace soon.")@/ | |
| ("(If you're confused by all this, try typing `I}' now.)"); | |
| -- | |
| help4("You can say \the\spacefactor only in horizontal mode,")@/ | |
| ("and \the\prevdepth only in vertical mode; and")@/ | |
| ("neither of these is meaningful inside \write. So")@/ | |
| ("I'm forgetting what you said and using zero for this \the."); | |
| -- | |
| help4("The unit of measurement in math glue must be mu.")@/ | |
| ("To recover gracefully from this error, it's best to")@/ | |
| ("delete the erroneous units; e.g., type `2' to delete")@/ | |
| ("two letters. (See Chapter 27 of The TeXbook.)"); | |
| -- | |
| help4("I'm afraid I won't be able to make use of this font,")@/ | |
| ("because my memory for character-size data is too small.")@/ | |
| ("If you're really stuck, ask a wizard to enlarge me.")@/ | |
| ("Or maybe try `I\font<same font id>=<name of loaded font>'."); | |
| -- | |
| help4("Somewhere in the math formula just ended, you used the")@/ | |
| ("stated character from an undefined font family. For example,")@/ | |
| ("plain TeX doesn't allow \it or \sl in subscripts. Proceed,")@/ | |
| ("and I'll try to forget that I needed that character."); | |
| -- | |
| help4("The box you are \vsplitting contains some infinitely")@/ | |
| ("shrinkable glue, e.g., `\vss' or `\vskip 0pt minus 1fil'.")@/ | |
| ("Such glue doesn't belong there; but you can safely proceed,")@/ | |
| ("since the offensive shrinkability has been made finite."); | |
| -- | |
| help4("The page about to be output contains some infinitely")@/ | |
| ("shrinkable glue, e.g., `\vss' or `\vskip 0pt minus 1fil'.")@/ | |
| ("Such glue doesn't belong there; but you can safely proceed,")@/ | |
| ("since ↓QQJA←→MK]g%mJAg!eS]W¬ESYSQrAQCLAEKK8A[CI∀AMS]%iJ\D$v~∀∩%Kee←Hv~∀∩%e?]K\1gaK QbRv↓gQeS9V1←e⊃KdQd%?]←e5CXvA⊃KYKi∀1OYk∀1eKL!bRv~(∩∪OYUJ1aiHQ`S?Hv~∀∩%K]Hv4∀∪K]⊂v~∃a¬OJ1i=iCY?ACOJ1Q←iCX-aCOJaIKai WoSIQPQbRlAaCO∀1IKaQQ>`~(~∃AyπQK | |
| -- | |
| help4("Sorry, but I'm not programmed to handle this case;")@/ | |
| ("I'll just pretend that you didn't ask for it.")@/ | |
| ("If you're in the wrong mode, you might be able to")@/ | |
| ("return to the right one by typing `I}' or `I$' or `I\par'.");@/ | |
| -- | |
| else help4("This error message was generated by an \errmessage")@/ | |
| ("command, so I can't give any explicit help.")@/ | |
| ("Pretend that you're Hercule Poirot, examine all clues,")@/ | |
| ("and deduce the truth by order and method."); | |
| help5("The control sequence at the end of the top line")@/ | |
| ("of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have")@/ | |
| ("misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct")@/ | |
| ("spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,")@/ | |
| ("and I'll forget about whatever was undefined."); | |
| -- | |
| help5("I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,")@/ | |
| ("so I will ignore the font specification.")@/ | |
| ("[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]")@/ | |
| ("You might try inserting a different font spec;")@/ | |
| ("e.g., type `I\font<same font id>=<substitute font name>'."); | |
| -- | |
| help5("The paragraph just ended includes some glue that has")@/ | |
| ("infinite shrinkability, e.g., `\hskip 0pt minus 1fil'.")@/ | |
| ("Such glue doesn't belong there---it allows a paragraph")@/ | |
| ("of any length to fit on one line. But it's safe to proceed,")@/ | |
| ("since the offensive shrinkability has been made finite."); | |
| -- | |
| help5("I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.")@/ | |
| ("(See the <inserted text> above.)")@/ | |
| ("With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you")@/ | |
| ("really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then")@/ | |
| ("my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear."); | |
| -- | |
| help5("I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be")@/ | |
| ("spurious, as in `$x}$'. But perhaps the } is legitimate and")@/ | |
| ("you forgot something else, as in `\hbox{$x}'. In such cases")@/ | |
| ("the way to recover is to insert both the forgotten and the")@/ | |
| ("deleted material, e.g., by typing `I$}'."); error; | |
| -- | |
| else begin help5("I can't figure out why you would want to use a tab mark")@/ | |
| ("or \cr or \span just now. If something like a right brace")@/ | |
| ("up above has ended a previous alignment prematurely,")@/ | |
| ("you're probably due for more error messages, and you")@/ | |
| ("might try typing `S' now just to see what is salvageable."); | |
| -- | |
| help5("Please don't say `\def cs{...}', say `\def\cs{...}'.")@/ | |
| ("I've inserted an inaccessible control sequence so that your")@/ | |
| ("definition will be completed without mixing me up too badly.")@/ | |
| ("You can recover graciously from this error, if you're")@/ | |
| ("careful; see exercise 27.xx in The TeXbook."); | |
| -- | |
| help5("This isn't an error message; I'm just \showing something.") | |
| @t\4\4@>@/ | |
| ("Type `I\show...' to show more (e.g., \show\cs,")@/ | |
| ("\showthe\count10, \showbox255, \showlists).")@/ | |
| ("And type `I\tracingonline=1\show...' to show boxes and")@/ | |
| help6("I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.")@/ | |
| ("For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce")@/ | |
| ("this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that")@/ | |
| ("I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway")@/ | |
| ("argument that might be the root of the problem. But if")@/ | |
| ("your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away."); | |
| -- | |
| help6("Dimensions can be in units of em, ex, dm, vu, wd, dp, ht,")@/ | |
| ("pt, pc, in, cm, mm, bp, dd, cc, or sp; yours is a new one!")@/ | |
| ("I'll assume that you meant to say pt, for printers' points.")@/ | |
| ("To recover gracefully from this error, it's best to")@/ | |
| ("delete the erroneous units; e.g., type `2' to delete")@/ | |
| ("two letters. (See Chapter 27 of The TeXbook.)"); | |
| -- | |
| begin help6("I can't figure out why you would want to use a tab mark")@/ | |
| ("here. If you just want an ampersand, the remedy is")@/ | |
| ("simple: Just type `I\&' now. But if some right brace")@/ | |
| ("up above has ended a previous alignment prematurely,")@/ | |
| ("you're probably due for more error messages, and you")@/ | |
| ("might try typing `S' now just to see what is salvageable."); | |
| -- | |
| help6("I was expecting to see something like `(' or `\{' or")@/ | |
| ("`\}' here. If you typed, e.g., `{' instead of `\{', you")@/ | |
| ("should probably delete the `{' by typing `1' now, so that")@/ | |
| ("braces don't get unbalanced. Otherwise just proceed.")@/ | |
| ("Acceptable delimiters are characters whose \delcode is")@/ | |
| ("nonnegative, or you can use `\delimiter <delimiter code>'."); |
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