From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Stop with an error signal
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 01:08:40 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1010310107320.25168@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101031050410.GA3136@khaled-laptop>
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 07:27:02PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to write a macro that checks for some settings and if the
>> settings are wrong stop the current compilation and terminate with
>> an error message. Right now I have
>>
>> \def\ERROR
>> {\writeline
>> \showmessage\??externalfilter??{forbidden}\getexternalfilterdirectory
>> \batchmode
>> \normalend}
>
> Well, the first thought that came in my mind is using os.exit(1):
>
> \def\ERROR{\directlua{os.exit(1)}}
>
> But since this is pretty obvious, I'm sure I'm missing something.
I want the code to also work with MkII, so I did not even think of a lua
solution :)
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-31 5:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-30 23:27 Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-31 4:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-10-31 4:44 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-31 5:01 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-31 5:04 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-10-31 5:08 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2010-10-31 5:12 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-10-31 5:19 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-31 8:46 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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