From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: two small questions about the mkiv roadmap
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:10:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481899EB.60805@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <115224fb0804300119v266846dfn9aabf8289c255297@mail.gmail.com>
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> The DTD is a problem with the ConTeXts XML parser and has
> nothing to do with LuaTeX (hope this is right).
i need a test file then (can look into it next week; i'm at bachotek now)
>> 2. error reports in luatex. This is something that comes up time and
>> again on the mailing list and which I experienced myself yesterday. I
>> had inadvertently deleted my luatex-cache and tried to run mkiv on a
>> file. The report I got was "attempt to call field 'error' (a nil
>> value)". Now I'm aware that TeX error reporting could be cryptic at
>> times, but at least it was a kind of cryptic to which we had gotten
>> used. With luatex, I'm constantly baffled - in a 100 years, I wouldn't
>> have guessed that this error message meant "I can't find the cache and
>> the format." So I was wondering if this is something that you're
>> working on: making error messages more informative/comprehensible for
>> users.
> Hadn't there plans to give more detailed error messages for ConTeXt
> as html page.
indeed, but i need someone to write me a xul application that will reuse
the already opened window
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-30 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-30 7:54 Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-04-30 8:19 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-04-30 16:10 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2008-04-30 19:28 ` luigi scarso
2008-05-01 9:00 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-05-01 9:12 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-05-01 9:58 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-05-02 6:50 ` Hans Hagen
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