Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

John Devereux wrote:

Wolfgang Schuster writes:

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Am 12.03.2009 um 15:06 schrieb John Devereux:

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Michael Bynum writes:

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This has burned me too. It would be nice if the errors were more prominent, perhaps repeated at the end of the output? Mike While we are on the subject, is it possible to make it "die" when incorrect (non-existent) options are passed to a context command? Is there any way at all of knowing if the option did anything (even by examining the log?) No, this is not possible and even such a feature would increase the compile time a lot, e.g. I used list with valid names in a earlier version of my letter module and it was 30% slower than the current version and now imagine what happens if you check each key in a assignment list.

OK. It seems strange (coming from a programming background).

If it is only the compile time, then a command line switch might be an option. (But it sounds like it is inherently hard to do, now).

i can probably implement some kind of checking (runtime switch, or maybe even switch at format generation time) but i will do so only when i've completely split of the mkiv code Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------