calc reports an error when parsing (e.g., via C-x * g) latex matrix environments with trailing newlines. Steps to reproduce (all with emacs -Q): use "C-x * * d L" to start calc and set the language mode to latex, then (math-read-expr "\\begin{pmatrix} a & b \\\\ c & d \\\\ \\end{pmatrix}") gives an error. The core issue has nothing to do with latex: use "C-x * * d N" to reset the language mode to normal, then (math-read-expr "[[a,b],[c,d],]") gives an error. I would like to propose that it should instead return the same as (math-read-expr "[[a,b],[c,d]]"), and similarly, that (math-read-expr "[u;v;]") should return the same as (math-read-expr "[u;v]"). In other words, we should simply ignore commas or semicolons when they appear at the end of a vector or matrix. The attached patch has the effect that, when a comma or semicolon is followed by a closing delimiter, we do not attempt to further enlarge the vector/matrix. The patch makes it so more expressions can be parsed, but should not modify how anything that can already be parsed is parsed. In GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin22.5.0, NS appkit-2299.60 Version 13.4.1 (Build 22F82)) of 2023-08-17 built on d51735 Repository revision: 5856ea5e4e897f4cb5cd1c3c28d14b335fe5cf54 Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2487 System Description: macOS 14.2.1 Configured using: 'configure --with-ns --with-native-compilation --with-tree-sitter --with-gif --with-png --with-jpeg --with-rsvg --with-tiff --with-imagemagick --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xwidgets' Configured features: ACL DBUS GLIB GNUTLS IMAGEMAGICK JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY KQUEUE NS PDUMPER PNG RSVG SQLITE3 THREADS TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM XWIDGETS ZLIB Important settings: value of $LC_CTYPE: UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils calc-vec calc-aent calc-yank calc-lang calc-ext calc-misc calc-menu calc calc-loaddefs rect calc-macs compile text-property-search comint ansi-osc ansi-color ring comp comp-cstr warnings icons rx cl-seq cl-macs gv cl-extra help-mode bytecomp byte-compile time-date subr-x cl-loaddefs cl-lib rmc iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win touch-screen tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads xwidget-internal dbusbind kqueue cocoa ns lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process native-compile emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 125047 12021) (symbols 48 11032 0) (strings 32 28904 1662) (string-bytes 1 811127) (vectors 16 18887) (vector-slots 8 383681 18510) (floats 8 39 179) (intervals 56 273 0) (buffers 992 14))