From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Stop with an error signal
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 07:12:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101031051203.GA3428@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1010310107320.25168@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 01:08:40AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 07:27:02PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I want to write a macro that checks for some settings and if the
> >>settings are wrong stop the current compilation and terminate with
> >>an error message. Right now I have
> >>
> >>\def\ERROR
> >> {\writeline
> >> \showmessage\??externalfilter??{forbidden}\getexternalfilterdirectory
> >> \batchmode
> >> \normalend}
> >
> >Well, the first thought that came in my mind is using os.exit(1):
> >
> >\def\ERROR{\directlua{os.exit(1)}}
> >
> >But since this is pretty obvious, I'm sure I'm missing something.
>
> I want the code to also work with MkII, so I did not even think of a
> lua solution :)
For some reason I was assuming the external filter module is MkIV only
thing, now I wounder from where I got that impression.
Regards,
Khaled
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-31 5:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-30 23:27 Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-31 4:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-10-31 4:44 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-31 5:01 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-31 5:04 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-10-31 5:08 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-31 5:12 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2010-10-31 5:19 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-31 8:46 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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