Am 31.10.2010 um 01:27 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to write a macro that checks for some settings and if the settings are 
> wrong stop the current compilation and terminate with an error message. Right 
> now I have
> 
> \def\ERROR
>      {\writeline
>       \showmessage\??externalfilter??{forbidden}\getexternalfilterdirectory
>       \batchmode
>       \normalend}
> 
> This prints the error message on the terminal and exits. However the exit 
> status (the value of $?) is 0, if the tui file has changed the document is 
> compiled a second time anyways.
> 
> How can I force context (the macro package) to exit with a status of 1 so 
> that context (the program) does not attempt a second compilation?

\starttext
\scrollmode\errmessage{...}
\stoptext

Wolfgang

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