From: Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Parsing ConTeXt errors
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:52:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84815259-2635-459A-B7FA-1A74D134CEBE@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ntipb3$f7r$1@blaine.gmane.org>
Of course, I *never* make MetaPost errors... ;-)
However, you can search the log file for
metapost > error:
Alan
> On Oct 11, 2016, at 07:27, Nicola <nvitacolonna@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to parse ConTeXt errors. TeX and Lua errors seem easy to parse
> (search for 'tex error' and 'lua error', respectively), but I have a couple of
> problems with MetaPost messages.
>
> First, when there are MetaPost errors, context/mtxrun exits with a zero exit
> code. Is that intentional?
>
> Second, as far as I see, there is no way to locate the error in the source
> from the log. I can only retrieve the file causing the error (by searching for
> an 'open source' line - very useful, btw), but no line number.
>
> Am I missing something? I think it would be very useful to have at least an
> approximate indication of the position of a MetaPost error.
>
> Nicola
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-11 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-11 13:27 Nicola
2016-10-11 18:52 ` Alan Braslau [this message]
2016-10-11 19:37 ` Nicola
2016-10-11 22:13 ` Hans Hagen
2016-10-12 7:30 ` Nicola
2016-10-13 18:37 ` Hans Hagen
2016-10-13 19:00 ` Nicola
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