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?
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