From: Jesse Alama <jesse.alama@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Validate (cross)references
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 18:58:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <irol7v$qe3$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1213928373.20110527171930@gmx.de>
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On 2011-05-27 17:19:30 +0200, Andreas Schneider said:
> On Friday, May 27, 2011 17:09 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>> Am 27.05.2011 um 17:04 schrieb Andreas Schneider:
>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> if I use \in, \about, \at or anything else that generates a
>>> cross-reference, and that reference happens to be invalid (typo or
>>> whatever), it just prints out "nothing". Is there a way to have
>>> context throw an error if a reference is invalid? (That probably would
>>> only make sense in the second pass of context, since the first pass
>>> has to collect the references first.)
>
>> Unknown references are shown as “??” in your text.
>
>> Wolfgang
>
> True, I was mostly thinking about "\about", which just prints two
> quotation marks and nothing in between. But my "problem" (if I can
> even call it that, since grep is already a solution, just maybe not
> the best one :D) is, that I could easily miss such small changes. I'm
> working on technical documentation that even has parts that are
> automatically generated (from XML files). I just update whatever is
> necessary (the document itself, or just the input files), commit them
> to SVN and our CI server grabs them, and runs ConTeXt. If ConTeXt
> returns with a return code > 0, the build is marked as "failed" and
> all necessary admins (me and my colleague) are informed via eMail
> and/or RSS feed. If the build succeeds, the generated PDF is
> automatically distributed to the users. I consider wrong references an
> error, so I would like the build to fail (imho referencing something
> that doesn't exist is like using a macro that doesn't exist, which
> fails too).
>
> But as I said: if context can't treat that as error, I'm fine with it
> too and will continue to grep the logfile. It's just curiosity if
> there may already be a setting/parameter/whatever to get context to be
> more "restrictive".
+1
I would also like ConTeXt to help me keep me document sensible in this
way. I also resort to grep-type solutions, but sometimes I forget to do
this, and sometimes, there are embarrassing consequences of such
oversight. If ConTeXt could help me avoid this all-too-common
oversight of mine, I'd be delighted. Throwing an error would be one
way to do this. If throwing an error is not possible, perhaps being
able to customize what gets printed when an undefined reference is
encountered. E.g., instead of "??", a big, annoying,
impossible-to-miss mark in the margin (as one sees when working with
overfull lines) or a giant red stopsign saying "UNDEFINED REFERENCE",
would do just as well.
--
Jesse Alama
http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~alama/
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-27 15:04 Andreas Schneider
2011-05-27 15:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-05-27 15:19 ` Andreas Schneider
2011-05-27 16:58 ` Jesse Alama [this message]
2011-05-27 17:50 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-05-27 18:03 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-05-27 21:00 ` Hans Hagen
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