From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Detecting reference-errors
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:14:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <516EA02F.3050900@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130417105529.GP5709@homerow>
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
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE
Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
| www.pragma-pod.nl
-----------------------------------------------------------------
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-17 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-17 10:32 "H. Özoguz"
2013-04-17 10:55 ` Marco Patzer
2013-04-17 13:14 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-17 10:31 "H. Özoguz"
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=516EA02F.3050900@wxs.nl \
--to=pragma@wxs.nl \
--cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).