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From: rocky@kundry.kundry.watson.ibm.com (Rocky Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Problem TeXing weaved tex.web and bibtex.web
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Date: 3 Aug 90 22:49:20 GMT
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Has anyone else run into this problem? After weaving tex.web or bibtex.web
which I got today off of labrea.stanford.edu I get the error message:
! Missing # inserted 
<inserted text>
               $
<to be read again>
                  \cdot
\E->\cdot 
...
At this point in the text (line 610 of tex.tex) what is really input is \ETs.
Looking at tex.web on line 69 we have:
\catcode`E=13 \uppercase{\def E{e}}

But E is never catcoded back to 11, which I think explains the problem.
The same code appears in bibtex.web on line 65. 

A fix of course is to add \catcode`E=11 a couple of lines down.

I find it hard to believe that I've found a bug, since I find it hard to 
believe that no one has TeX'ed tex.web or bibtex.web. So what am I missing?

R. Bernstein
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Hts, NY
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R. Bernstein