On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:

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> luigi scarso wrote:
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> > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com
> > <mailto:taco@elvenkind.com>> wrote:
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> >     Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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> >             Line Number
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> >         I don't know of any way, but TeX sometimes complains on errors
> and
> >         outputs the line number along.
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> >
> >     There is \inputlineno in TeX, so  \the\inputlineno or the lua
> >     equivalent \ctxlua{tex.inputlineno} will work.
> >
> > The problem is exactly locate the error in source .
> > Sometimes the errorline  of the log are in someway imprecise , ie. "the
> > errors is (are)
> > around here " .
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> Yeah, that can't be helped (unless you don't do multi-line paragraphs
> nor macros)
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we need something like a stack trace;
also a lua "try/except" construct should be nice .
-- 
luigi