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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: bizarre error message
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:29:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <533A8716.70406@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533A8483.5000805@uni-bonn.de>

On 4/1/2014 11:18 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On 03/29/2014 11:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Ok, we need indeed some example of this so that we can test. It can for
>> instance relate to some prev pointer still not being ok (which can
>> result in such errors). This means that when context looks back at some
>> node that happens to be a head node, we can get weird effects. In due
>> time this will be sorted out but the more tests we have the sooner.
>
> Sadly, it is a Heisenbug - I have been unable so far to isolate it.
> Compilation showed this bug both on linux and OS X - commented parts of
> the file in question - compilation worked - uncommented line by line -
> compilation keeps working without error. I'm no longer sure if it is
> indeed a problem with the mixedcolumns environment or the new
> bibliography code or a combination of both...

no, it's one of those ransom issues where a pointer is not set/reset 
which needs to b esorted out in luatex itself

if you put the test file that fails in the crited repos luigi and i can 
run it and rather easily (less than a day work -) determine where it is

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-01  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-29 15:02 Thomas A. Schmitz
2014-03-29 22:26 ` Hans Hagen
2014-04-01  9:18   ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2014-04-01  9:29     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2014-04-01  9:46       ` Thomas A. Schmitz

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