hanging on missing picture

Hans van der Meer

12 Mar 2011 12 Mar '11

6:23 a.m.

Requesting a non-existing picture does not produce a warning message, but makes ConTeXt hang. An abort is the only thing that helps. It would however be nice if a "missing file" warning is given. A minimal example that shows me the hang: \starttext Hello a picture?\par \externalfigure[./Figuren/figure.xxx] \stoptext

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Taco Hoekwater

12 Mar 12 Mar

6:39 a.m.

On 12 mrt. 2011, at 14:23, Hans van der Meer wrote:

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Requesting a non-existing picture does not produce a warning message, but makes ConTeXt hang. An abort is the only thing that helps. It would however be nice if a "missing file" warning is given. A minimal example that shows me the hang:

That is not supposed to happen, I think. Normally, you would get a gray box in thr pdf to indicate that the figure was not found. Best wishes, Taco

Mojca Miklavec

7:11 a.m.

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 14:39, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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On 12 mrt. 2011, at 14:23, Hans van der Meer wrote:

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Requesting a non-existing picture does not produce a warning message, but makes ConTeXt hang. An abort is the only thing that helps. It would however be nice if a "missing file" warning is given. A minimal example that shows me the hang:

That is not supposed to happen, I think. Normally, you would get a gray box in thr pdf to indicate that the figure was not found.

I'm not sure, but until yesterday ConTeXt kept hanging in most unexpected moments for not-really-predictable reasons and maybe that is just one of them. Mojca

Hans Hagen

13 Mar 13 Mar

5:52 a.m.

On 12-3-2011 2:39, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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On 12 mrt. 2011, at 14:23, Hans van der Meer wrote:

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Requesting a non-existing picture does not produce a warning message, but makes ConTeXt hang. An abort is the only thing that helps. It would however be nice if a "missing file" warning is given. A minimal example that shows me the hang:

That is not supposed to happen, I think. Normally, you would get a gray box in thr pdf to indicate that the figure was not found.

there should be a \normalexpanded in here: \def\externalfigurereplacement#1#2#3% {\setupcolors [\c!state=\v!local]% \normalexpanded{\localframed [\??ef] [\c!width=\figurewidth, \c!height=\figureheight, \c!background=\v!color, \c!backgroundcolor=missingfigurecolor, \c!frame=\@@efframe]}% we need to expand this in order to prevent a loop {\tt\tfxx \nohyphens name: \expanded{\verbatimstring{#1}}\\% file: \expanded{\verbatimstring{#2}}\\% state: \expanded{\verbatimstring{#3}}}} ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Otared Kavian

12 Mar 12 Mar

7:07 a.m.

Hi, On my installation of ConTeXt, there is no hanging: maybe there is an issue with your intsllation? The output shows a grey rectangle with name : dummy file: figure state: unknown written on it. For your information, I tested your code on a Mac OS X 10.6.6 and the minimals (version 2011.02.25). Best regards: OK On 12 mars 2011, at 14:23, Hans van der Meer wrote:

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Requesting a non-existing picture does not produce a warning message, but makes ConTeXt hang. An abort is the only thing that helps. It would however be nice if a "missing file" warning is given. A minimal example that shows me the hang:

\starttext Hello a picture?\par \externalfigure[./Figuren/figure.xxx] \stoptext

Hans van der Meer

7:27 a.m.

Well, here it does hang. I also have MacOSX 10.6.6 but then I have the minimals ver: 2011.02.05 11:37 MKIV fmt: 2011.2.5. The later version: ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.11 does work as advertised though. Pity I have to use the older version until another incompatibility is solved: resolvers > modules > loaded: 'bib' (/Users/hans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/m-obsolete.tex ! Undefined control sequence. I hope to hear soon about that one. Hans van der Meer On 12 mrt 2011, at 15:07, Otared Kavian wrote:

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Hi,

On my installation of ConTeXt, there is no hanging: maybe there is an issue with your intsllation? The output shows a grey rectangle with name : dummy file: figure state: unknown written on it.

For your information, I tested your code on a Mac OS X 10.6.6 and the minimals (version 2011.02.25).

Best regards: OK On 12 mars 2011, at 14:23, Hans van der Meer wrote:

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Requesting a non-existing picture does not produce a warning message, but makes ConTeXt hang. An abort is the only thing that helps. It would however be nice if a "missing file" warning is given. A minimal example that shows me the hang:

\starttext Hello a picture?\par \externalfigure[./Figuren/figure.xxx] \stoptext

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Mojca Miklavec

7:56 a.m.

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 15:27, Hans van der Meer wrote:

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Well, here it does hang. I also have MacOSX 10.6.6 but then I have the minimals ver: 2011.02.05 11:37 MKIV fmt: 2011.2.5. The later version: ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.11 does work as advertised though.

Pity I have to use the older version until another incompatibility is solved: resolvers > modules > loaded: 'bib' (/Users/hans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/m-obsolete.tex ! Undefined control sequence. I hope to hear soon about that one.

I just commented out a single line in m-obsolete to make it work. Mojca

Otared Kavian

8:16 a.m.

Hi, I did the test with your code both with mkii and mkiv (version 2011.02.25, 22:03). In mkii I get what I reported previously and in mkiv I get: name : dummy file: ./Figuren/figure.xxx state: unknown I have noticed the hanging behaviour of mkiv in some other situations, but actually if I wait long enough mkiv comes back and the typesetting goes through… I had the impression of having a cache problem, since if I remove or rename the folder /context-minimal/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache then mkiv gets lost, despite a new folder being created. Maybe in your situation there is an analogous condition? Best regards: OK On 12 mars 2011, at 15:27, Hans van der Meer wrote:

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Well, here it does hang. I also have MacOSX 10.6.6 but then I have the minimals ver: 2011.02.05 11:37 MKIV fmt: 2011.2.5. The later version: ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.11 does work as advertised though.

Pity I have to use the older version until another incompatibility is solved: resolvers > modules > loaded: 'bib' (/Users/hans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/m-obsolete.tex ! Undefined control sequence. I hope to hear soon about that one.

Hans van der Meer

On 12 mrt 2011, at 15:07, Otared Kavian wrote:

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Hi,

On my installation of ConTeXt, there is no hanging: maybe there is an issue with your intsllation? The output shows a grey rectangle with name : dummy file: figure state: unknown written on it.

For your information, I tested your code on a Mac OS X 10.6.6 and the minimals (version 2011.02.25).

Best regards: OK On 12 mars 2011, at 14:23, Hans van der Meer wrote:

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Requesting a non-existing picture does not produce a warning message, but makes ConTeXt hang. An abort is the only thing that helps. It would however be nice if a "missing file" warning is given. A minimal example that shows me the hang:

\starttext Hello a picture?\par \externalfigure[./Figuren/figure.xxx] \stoptext

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