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On 11/12/2019 12:14 PM, Philipp A. wrote:
Hi,
I want context to shut up, specifically the “mkiv lua stats” at the end are useless to me and make me scroll up for actual error messages, but better would be to just stop after the first error. I consulted the --help docs but found them entirely unhelpful. Also there’s no examples. As doing it wrong results in no error message or indeed any kind of effect, I was in the dark.
context --silent -nostatistics context quits at the first error as recovering is (1) seldom useful, (2) can interfere badly with tex/mp/lua and make things worse), (3) context tries to show a bit more precise location where the erro comes from (not always easy in tex) ... some of these modes originate in paper terminal times and it's very unlikely that context will change it's current way of doing things
First I consulted the --help and found: “--silent=list disable logcatgories (show list with --showlogcategories)”. What’s a “list”? comma separated? Do I need string delimiters?
comma separated and only quoted when spaces (as usual with spaces)
Whatever, executing “context --showlogcategories” tells me the log category “mkiv lua stats” exists, so: “context --silent='mkiv lua stats' doc.tex” does … nothing, the lua stats are still there mocking me.
OK, let’s do what you do when there’s no documentation; dive in the code: “grep -C3 'batchmode' /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua” This tells me that there’s a “errorstopmode” in luatex but no way to make the context script invoke “luatex -interaction=errorstopmode”, great. Diving deeper, “setblocked” in mtxtun.lua checks if --silent=all is specified, nice! But that affects everything EXCEPT for the “mkiv lua stats”.
grepping for stats will bring you to nostats and nostatistics and "context --help --expert" shows that flag too
Therefore the two most useful ways to run context (--errorstopmode and --silent='mkiv lua stats') seem impossible unless one writes a wrapper script. Would be cool to have this fixed. And to have actually useful documentation instead of having to deep-dive into mtxrun.lua.
remarks like the last one are very unlikely to trigger people to write additional documentation (a manual or wiki page) ... context comes for free, support comes for free ... there is not much one can demand i guess Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------