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


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.
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> 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 " .

Yeah, that can't be helped (unless you don't do multi-line paragraphs
nor macros)
we need something like a stack trace;
also a lua "try/except" construct should be nice .
--
luigi