Detecting reference-errors

Detecting reference-errors

["H. Özoguz"]

With \at[ref] one can get the pagenumber of a reference. If this 
reference is not there (maybe in another file, not included at that 
moment) there is no error given, but two question marks ??.
That is of course useful, but what if I WANT an error? Because that is 
the only fast way to detect typing errors in references.

Else I will have ?? at the end in the book, not very nice :)

Huseyin
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Re: Detecting reference-errors

[Hans Hagen]

On 4/17/2013 12:55 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> On 2013–04–17 "H. Özoguz" wrote:
>
>> With \at[ref] one can get the pagenumber of a reference. If this
>> reference is not there (maybe in another file, not included at that
>> moment) there is no error given, but two question marks ??.
>> That is of course useful, but what if I WANT an error? Because that
>> is the only fast way to detect typing errors in references.
>
> ConTeXt requires multiple passes to get the references right, which
> means the first run would always fail if missing references trigger
> an error and should be delayed to the second run. Seems possible,
> though.
>
> I use the following command to detect wrong references. It's not
> pretty, but it does it's job reasonably well.
>
>    pdftotext <file.pdf> - | grep -E '\?\?|!!'

If you run

\starttext
     test \in{someplace}[somewhere]
\stoptext

there are messages in the log like:

references      > unknown reference '[][somewhere]'

as well as a summary:

references      > start problematic references

references      > unknown >    1: [][somewhere]

references      > stop problematic references



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Re: Detecting reference-errors

[Marco Patzer]

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On 2013–04–17 "H. Özoguz" wrote:

> With \at[ref] one can get the pagenumber of a reference. If this
> reference is not there (maybe in another file, not included at that
> moment) there is no error given, but two question marks ??.
> That is of course useful, but what if I WANT an error? Because that
> is the only fast way to detect typing errors in references.

ConTeXt requires multiple passes to get the references right, which
means the first run would always fail if missing references trigger
an error and should be delayed to the second run. Seems possible,
though.

I use the following command to detect wrong references. It's not
pretty, but it does it's job reasonably well.

  pdftotext <file.pdf> - | grep -E '\?\?|!!'

Marco

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Detecting reference-errors

["H. Özoguz"]

With \at[ref] one can get the pagenumber of a reference. If this 
reference is not there (maybe in another file, not included at that 
moment) there is no error given, but two question marks ??.
That is of course useful, but what if I WANT an error? Because that is 
the only fast way to detect typing errors in references.

Else I will have ?? at the end in the book, not very nice

Huseyin

P.S.: Sorry for the other Mail with the wrong sender-adress.
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