Hi Joel, I get this error frequently when I forget to stop an environment, for example a \startsection with no \stopsection or a \startplacefigure with no \stopplacefigure. This freqeuntly doesn’t cause an error because the engine is happily packing my entire book into a margin figure. See if there something you should have stopped near the place where things go bad? Good luck! Gavin

On Oct 30, 2022, at 7:46 PM, Joel via ntg-context wrote:

I have a very large document that, when compiled, produces a PDF, but reports the error "mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1".

The PDF can open, but after about 100 pages in, the content starts appearing all in the wrong place.

Usually when I compile, it says there is an error, and I just scroll up until I find the details. I've scrolled through the output, and *.log file, but cannot see anything that looks like an error.

It could be that just because the document is so long (about 1200 pages), I can't find the error among the huge logs, but I looked through them all carefully.

How can I isolate the error when ConTeXt isn't showing it? Is there some setting for showing only errors, or revealing more details about an error?

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On Mon, 31 Oct 2022, Joel via ntg-context wrote:

I found what it was, a % in the text preventing a \stopitemize to close a list. Thanks! --Joel

mtxrun concheck filename is very useful in such situations. Aditya