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+{-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable, DeriveGeneric #-}
+{-
+Copyright (C) 2006-2016 John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+-}
+{- |
+   Module      : Text.Pandoc.Error
+   Copyright   : Copyright (C) 2006-2016 John MacFarlane
+   License     : GNU GPL, version 2 or above
+
+   Maintainer  : John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
+   Stability   : alpha
+   Portability : portable
+
+This module provides a standard way to deal with possible errors encounted
+during parsing.
+
+-}
+module Text.Pandoc.Error (
+  PandocError(..),
+  handleError) where
+
+import Text.Parsec.Error
+import Text.Parsec.Pos hiding (Line)
+import Data.Generics (Typeable)
+import GHC.Generics (Generic)
+import Control.Exception (Exception)
+import Text.Pandoc.Shared (err)
+
+type Input = String
+
+data PandocError = PandocIOError String IOError
+                 | PandocShouldNeverHappenError String
+                 | PandocSomeError String
+                 | PandocParseError String
+                 | PandocParsecError Input ParseError
+                 | PandocMakePDFError String
+                 deriving (Show, Typeable, Generic)
+
+instance Exception PandocError
+
+-- | Handle PandocError by exiting with an error message.
+handleError :: Either PandocError a -> IO a
+handleError (Right r) = return r
+handleError (Left e) =
+  case e of
+    PandocIOError _ err' -> ioError err'
+    PandocShouldNeverHappenError s -> err 62 s
+    PandocSomeError s -> err 63 s
+    PandocParseError s -> err 64 s
+    PandocParsecError input err' ->
+        let errPos = errorPos err'
+            errLine = sourceLine errPos
+            errColumn = sourceColumn errPos
+            ls = lines input ++ [""]
+            errorInFile = if length ls > errLine - 1
+                            then concat ["\n", (ls !! (errLine - 1))
+                                        ,"\n", replicate (errColumn - 1) ' '
+                                        ,"^"]
+                        else ""
+        in  err 65 $ "\nError at " ++ show  err' ++ errorInFile
+    PandocMakePDFError s -> err 65 s
+