Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart fails silently on incorrect input

2006-06-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: 2) Is whitespace not allowed before or after when defining with or using the = sign? Parially, space after = is fine, space before = is ignored silently. changing that would break things (esp when a space is set this way, and not using \space) This is

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart fails silently on incorrect input

2006-06-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, when I try texmfstart whatever nothing happens. Shouldn't a warning or an error be given to say that texmfstart could not find 'whatever'. This will make it easier to detect typos while trying out commands by hand. I do get such a message when using

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart fails silently on incorrect input

2006-06-05 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, when I try texmfstart whatever nothing happens. Shouldn't a warning or an error be given to say that texmfstart could not find 'whatever'. This will make it easier to detect typos while trying out commands by hand. I do

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart fails silently on incorrect input

2006-06-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, when I try texmfstart whatever nothing happens. Shouldn't a warning or an error be given to say that texmfstart could not find 'whatever'. This will make it easier to detect typos while

[NTG-context] texmfstart fails silently on incorrect input

2006-06-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, when I try texmfstart whatever nothing happens. Shouldn't a warning or an error be given to say that texmfstart could not find 'whatever'. This will make it easier to detect typos while trying out commands by hand. I do get such a message when using texmfstart --verbose whatever, but I

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart fails silently on incorrect input

2006-06-04 Thread Guðmundur J. Kristjánsson
Hi all. Just a quick note regarding silentness in Context. I have on two occasions had problems with silent errors: 1) When using the bib module and putting spaces between citation variables and their value. For example, doing: \startpublication[k = ArcticCorsairTrawling, t

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart fails silently on incorrect input

2006-06-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Guðmundur J. Kristjánsson wrote: Just a quick note regarding silentness in Context. I have on two occasions had problems with silent errors: 1) When using the bib module and putting spaces between citation variables and their value. For example, doing: