Re: \begin {document}

Hello,
just for information:
I posted a question in the German TeX newsgroup whether blanks 
between \begin and { are principally allowed or not.
Although MikTeX accepts it with a blank in between, this is the first 
LaTeX input file I have seen with a blank in this place.

At 10.10.2007 00:06, Peter Lloyd wrote:
 >I'm using latex2rtf-1.9.17a_dos. Thanks for creating a useful tool.
 >However, I've encountered what I think is a bug.
 >
 >To reproduce, create a file eg min.tex, containing the following:
 >
 >\documentclass{article}
 >\begin {document}
 >This is some text
 >\end{document}
 >
 >Now run 'l2r min.tex'
 >
 >I get the error:
 >
 >{
 >(Not set):3 Mismatched '{' in RTF file, Conversion may cause problems.
 >(Not set):3 This is often caused by having environments that span
 >(Not set):3 \section{}s.  For example
 >(Not set):3    \begin{small} ... \section{A} ... \section{B} ...
 >\end{small}
 >(Not set):3 will definitely fail.
 >(Not set):3 Try translating with 'latex2rtf -Z2 min.tex'
 >
 >And there is nothing but header information in the resulting rtf file.
 >(Using -Z2 doesn't make it work either)
 >
 >I've tracked it down to the space between \begin and {document} --
 >removing this space makes everything work correctly.
 >
 >LaTeX (MiKTeX 2.5) parses the input file just fine.
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