[racket-dev] Scribble does not complain when @tech{term} is used but not defined

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 18 15:32:25 EDT 2011

Rad.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> I've changed `scribble' to report undefined cross-reference targets to
> stderr by default.
>
> The "HTML" and "PDF" buttons in DrRacket do not show the warnings,
> because those buttons run `scribble' with the `--quiet' flag. I think
> Robby has been considering a different implementation of the buttons.
>
> At Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:45:52 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>>
>> I would prefer not to get an error so that I can compile modules independently.
>>
>>
>> On Aug 17, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>>
>> > Is there a subtle reason to not error? I've just seeded a file with a
>> > lot of @tech{} uses and I was hoping to get a big list of errors as a
>> > to-define list.
>> >
>> > I looked at the code and found a commented-out error printing in the
>> > HTML renderer. I think it would be great to re-enable it, perhaps with
>> > a command line flag for the original objector?
>> >
>> > What's the scoop?
>> >
>> > Jay
>> >
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Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
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http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay

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