On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Alan STONE wrote:

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I tried \tracingmacros=1 but that's not what I'm looking for.

\tracingassigns=1 is as close as you can get.

Considering the enormous amount of information these \tracing* commands blurp into the log file, I think I'll read Tolstoy's "War and Peace" instead. ;O)

Otherwise, you will end up with extremely dangerous constructs like this trick that may very well interfere with what you are trying to debug:

\let\normaldef\def \def\dumpDEF {\immediate\write16 {\expandafter\string\theDEF=\expandafter\meaning\theDEF}} \unexpanded\normaldef\def#1% yes, this redefines \def! {\normaldef\theDEF{#1}\afterassignment\dumpDEF\normaldef#1}

Thanks a lot Taco. This is better already, though still too much information in the log file to be user friendly. Would it be possible to restricts the output to the \def'\s which begin with specific characters, for example "my" as in \def\my* ? Or... Do you know some tool (Windows/Linux) which enables to filter these from the log file into a text file, or delete the unwanted ones from the log file ? Best, Alan

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Alan STONE wrote:

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Alan STONE

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Do you know some tool (Windows/Linux) which enables to filter these from the log file into a text file, or delete the unwanted ones from the log file ?

Under Linux, grep should be able to do that. Under Windows ?

maybe grep of cygwin ? -- luigi

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

luigi scarso wrote:

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On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Alan STONE mailto:software.list.1es9s@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Alan STONE mailto:software.list.1es9s@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you know some tool (Windows/Linux) which enables to filter these from the log file into a text file, or delete the unwanted ones from the log file ?

Under Linux, grep should be able to do that. Under Windows ?

maybe grep of cygwin ?

or

mtxrun --script grep ...

This is a cool one... http://www.wingrep.com -- Best, Alan * TeX engine = LuaTeX * ConTeXt minimals ver: 2008.56.06 19:11 MKIV fmt: 2008.11.10 int: english/english * Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Another debugging question: how do you return the filename of the file being compiled ? -- Best, Alan * TeX engine = LuaTeX * ConTeXt minimals ver: 2008.56.06 19:11 MKIV fmt: 2008.11.10 int: english/english * Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron