From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/63112 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Stop with an error signal Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 01:08:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20101031050410.GA3136@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288501740 24625 80.91.229.12 (31 Oct 2010 05:09:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:09:00 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Oct 31 06:08:56 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCQA3-00038B-VN for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:08:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62A4CA7F2; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:08:54 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id TzNDUTt4Wjrw; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:08:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01186CA7F4; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:08:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BF6CA7F4 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:08:51 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id HkXaItPK3FIZ for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:08:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (filter3-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.154]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C94CA7F2 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:08:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id o9V58l38017369 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:08:48 +0100 Original-Received: FROM adi-laptop (bas3-montreal02-1096680238.dsl.bell.ca [65.94.3.46]) By hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4CCCF9DC.37FFA.5465 ; Authuser adityam; 31 Oct 2010 01:08:44 EDT In-Reply-To: <20101031050410.GA3136@khaled-laptop> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.81; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0dDph8L4e - 0ed31bcbe390 - 20101031 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.154 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:63112 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________