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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

494.0. "Zero errors ?????" by PION::COSCONNOLLY (Gerry with G not jerry with a J) Thu Jun 11 1987 08:52

    
    Any idea on this problem :-
    
    NOTE number of errors !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
COSCONNOLLY� document fred general ln03
%DOC-I-IDENT, VAX DOCUMENT T1.0-001
[ T a g   T r a n s l a t i o n ]...
%TAG-I-TAG_IDENT, T1.0
%TAG-I-DEFSLOADD, End of Loading of Tag Definitions
%TAG-E-TBLTOOWID, at tag <TABLE_SETUP> on line 28 in file
   COSTAIN$ROOT:[COSCONNOLLY.DOCUMENT]FRED.GNC;
   Sum of table column widths 107 will exceed text margins. 
   The maximum width for the current doctype is 80
%TAG-F-ABORTFORE, at end-of-file on line 148 in file
   COSTAIN$ROOT:[COSCONNOLLY.DOCUMENT]FRED.GNC;
   Processing terminates at this point.
   There have been more than 0 error messages of severity level E  <<<<<<<<<<<<
%TAG-I-CPU_USAGE, Pass 1: 26.0  Pass 2: 0.0  Total: 26.0 seconds
%DOC-E-ERROR_TAG, Errors found by TAG Translator.
T.RTitleUserPersonal
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494.11 > 0CLOSET::KOHLBRENNERThu Jun 11 1987 09:1120
    The tag translator currently permits 30 Warning messages and
    0 (zero) Error messages.  So if more than 30 Warnings or more
    than 0 Error messages are found, the tag translator terminates
    with failure status.
    
    The tag translator can be used to do other things with a
    generically marked up source file.  Within the current setting,
    it only creates output for TeX. When there is an E level message in the
    tag translator, it cannot guarantee that what it gives TeX
    will be "safe," so it will not allow any E level messages.
    
    However, someone who creates some tag definitions for another
    pupose might want to allow E level messages, and so they can
    bump up the limit from 0 to any value that they choose.  In
    such a case, the ABORTFORE error message will reflect the new
    limit.
    
    Your source file had one E level error, so the ABORTFORE said
    that it was terminating the execution of DOCUMENT because you
    had more than 0 E-level errors.
494.2It is initially confusing...COOKIE::JOHNSTONFri Jun 12 1987 21:116
I also was confused by "0 Error Messages".  .1 explains it clearly, but
would it be more user friendly to simply have a message that said "1 or 
more fatal errors found"?


Rose
494.3eye to eye with the wrong person.VAXUUM::KOHLBRENNERSat Jun 13 1987 09:4312
    Yeah, probably it would.
    
    I think I had my eye on the tag designer and not on the end user.
    The tag designer probably wants to say "I'll allow up to X messages
    of such-and-such severity."  So I worded the message as "More than
    X messages...".  But the end user would be happier with a message
    that read "X+1 or more messages of severity...".
    
    No reason why the software couldn't add 1 to the X.  I suppose that's
    what the software is for, huh?
    
    thanks