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From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: structure sanity checks
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:39:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikACYwQO-ojDm_QE+osgWEsdeMpxzZQuSzmSgf9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010131429.47796.alan.braslau@cea.fr>

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr> wrote:
> Using \startchapter\stopchapter or \startitem\stopitem could present
> some logical advantage over the use of \chapter or \item, for example.
> However, it would be useful to have some sort of sanity check
> giving warnings at least if the \start\stop symmetry is violated.
> As a minimal example, the following simple case of one logical error
> leads to an undesired result. Of course, you get what you asked,
> but some sort of warning could be useful. Or, rather, is the general
> philosophy to silently pass over such errors so as not to load down
> the log in the face of such user errors?
>
> Indeed, under ConTeXt, unknown or incorrect arguments are simply ignored.
>
> (in other cases, for example forgetting \stoptext, ConTeXt protests vocally)
maybe enable xml export  and check it  with xmllint
\setubackend[export=yes]
see back-exp.mkiv

-- 
luigi
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-13 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-13 12:29 Alan BRASLAU
2010-10-13 12:39 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2010-10-14 13:57 ` Hans Hagen

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