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The following example, a follow-up of Give an error if I don't reference a label, generates a warning:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{refcheck}

\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}
    % ...
    \caption{A nice picture of my dog}\label{fig:dog}
  \end{figure}
  % As seen in figure~\ref{fig:dog}
\end{document}

The warning is:

Package refcheck Warning: Unused label `fig:dog' on input line 8.

I would like to turn that warning (and only that warning, not others) into an error. I would prefer to do this inside LaTeX rather than through an external bash script parsing the log.

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Xu Wang
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    Sounds like a bad idea: everytime you add a \label{foo}/\ref{foo} pair the first compilation would give an error (because two compilations are needed before \ref knows there's a suiting \label) – cgnieder Jul 05 '15 at 12:05
  • @clemens ah good to know! There is no way to only give an error on the second compilation? – Xu Wang Jul 05 '15 at 13:22
  • I don't know (today is the first day I heard about the refcheck package). But warnings are not too bad IMHO: 1) one should pay attention to warnings anyway and 2) an unused label doesn't do any harm, really. – cgnieder Jul 05 '15 at 13:36
  • @clemens I agree in general. But some cases this would be very nice to have I think. – Xu Wang Jul 05 '15 at 13:42

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This seems a strange thing to give an error on, it's normal to label anything that might conceivably be referenced, but anyway

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{refcheck}

\makeatletter
\let\old@warning@rc@\@warning@rc@
\def\@warning@rc@#1{\x@warning@rc@#1\relax}

\AtEndDocument{%
\immediate\write\@auxout{\gdef\string\rc@unlab{Unused label}}}

\def\x@warning@rc@#1 #2 #3\relax{%
\def\rc@tmp{#1 #2}%
\ifx\rc@tmp\rc@unlab
  \PackageError{refcheck}{#1 #2 #3}\@ehc
\else
 \old@warning@rc@{#1 #2 #3}%
\fi}

\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}
    % ...
    \caption{A nice picture of my dog}\label{fig:dog}
  \end{figure}
  % As seen in figure~\ref{fig:dog}
\end{document}

This checks that the start of the warning is Unused label and if so makes an error. The test macro holding the string Unused label is defined indirectly by writing the definition to the aux file so it is not defined the first time you add this to the document, so that you have a chance for cross references to stabilize on the second run. You get a warning the first time, as intended for refcheck.

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