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2 Feb
2007
2 Feb
'07
5:53 a.m.
The -recorder switch of pdftex/web2c (don't know how to use that with texexec)
Like so: texexec --passon=-recorder file.tex The --passon feature had lapsed in the transition from perl to ruby texexec, but Hans and Taco fixed it in one of the recent ConTeXt releases. I now use it all the time to get compiler-like error msgs: texexec --passon=-file-line-error ... filtering the output through egrep -i -A 4 '^([^ :]+:[0-9]+: |output written.*pages)' to select the error lines and a bit of context, so to speak. -Sanjoy `Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)