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From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Error Line Number
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:29:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsDjuGcWG-BePMuJQ9xqiXmvSLrDi7MPkVZ2YQsb9-2pHQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326498906.8032.2.camel@kip-laptop>


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On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:08 +0100, luigi scarso wrote:
> > Usually the strategy is to isolate the culprit by including progressively
> > lengthy  chunks of tex
> > from the begin to end
> > and then narrowing the selection until you find a macro or paragraph.
> > Then surround it with
> > \tracingall
> > ...
> > \trancingnone
> > and you have a *huge* amount of informations.
> >
> > (btw, discover where an error happens  it's  known to be problematic due
> > the inherently asynchronous nature of TeX
> > and the   macro programming language, where expansion can be  very hard
> to
> > understand)
>
> That sounds very tedious and is definitely a major problem with ConTeXt.
> But like you said, it's difficult to alleviate based on how all of its
> components were designed.
>
> It's not a problem of ConTeXt, it's a problem of TeX , at least when you
use a complex macro format
like LaTeX or ConTeXt. It's the nature of the macro language.


-- 
luigi

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-01-14  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-12  0:15 Kip Warner
2012-01-12 10:13 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-12 19:11   ` Kip Warner
2012-01-13  9:08     ` luigi scarso
2012-01-13 13:36       ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-13 23:55       ` Kip Warner
2012-01-14  8:29         ` luigi scarso [this message]

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