On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 01:59:56PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> [email protected] (Karl Berry) writes:
> 
> >     >   msgid "tex4ht error opening %s: %s"
> >
> > Based on your description, how about:
> > tex4ht.pm failed to open %s: %s
> 
> GNU standard would be:
> 
> tex4ht.pm:%s: cannot open: %s

I am not sure about that.  Indeed, it is said:


 Error messages from other noninteractive programs should look like this:

 program:sourcefile:lineno: message

 when there is an appropriate source file, or like this:

 program: message

But, in that case, the file that cannot be opened is not a source file,
rather it may be a generated intermediate file or an output file.  So it
seems to me that the condition "when there is an appropriate source
file".  Now, if "when there is an appropriate source file" is in fact to
be interpreted as "when there is an appropriate file" more generally,
then ok, but is it really the case?

-- 
Pat

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