From: Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Error Line Number
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:55:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1326498906.8032.2.camel@kip-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG5iGsD6si5rreBZ1bqh1goDMXZRmpFXmkjUGc-GeEdSmzoPyQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:08 +0100, luigi scarso wrote:
> Usually the strategy is to isolate the culprit by including progressively
> lengthy chunks of tex
> from the begin to end
> and then narrowing the selection until you find a macro or paragraph.
> Then surround it with
> \tracingall
> ...
> \trancingnone
> and you have a *huge* amount of informations.
>
> (btw, discover where an error happens it's known to be problematic due
> the inherently asynchronous nature of TeX
> and the macro programming language, where expansion can be very hard to
> understand)
That sounds very tedious and is definitely a major problem with ConTeXt.
But like you said, it's difficult to alleviate based on how all of its
components were designed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-13 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-12 0:15 Kip Warner
2012-01-12 10:13 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-12 19:11 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-13 9:08 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-13 13:36 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-13 23:55 ` Kip Warner [this message]
2012-01-14 8:29 ` luigi scarso
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