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On Mon, 28 May 2007, Matthias Weber wrote:
is there a simple TeX/ConTeXt way to test in a TeX file whether a link to an external document is broken so that I get an error message if not?
Quick and dirty: \def\UseURL[#1][#2]{% \executesystemcommand{% if wget -qO/dev/null #2 \letterbar\letterbar [ -f #2 ]; then echo \letterbackslash\letterbackslash useURL[#1][#2]; else echo \letterbackslash\letterbackslash#1DoesNotExist; fi >texcmd.tmp}% \input texcmd.tmp} \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start] \UseURL[fileOk][/tmp/real-file] \UseURL[fileNotOk][/tmp/not-existing-file] \UseURL[urlOk][http://contextgarden.net/] \UseURL[urlNotOk][http://no.contextgarden.net/] \starttext existing file: \from[fileOk] not existing file: \from[fileNotOk] existing url: \from[urlOk] not existing url: \from[urlNotOk] \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/