Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:

When texexec doesn't find a program or a file, it doesn't complain loudly. In this output from a recent run

extra program : dvipos z

total run time : 3 seconds

texexec went looking for 'dvipos'. I didn't suspect any problem since I didn't know that it wasn't installed (and hadn't heard of it until a few hours ago). An error message like this would be useful::

extra program : dvipos z ERROR: Could not run 'dvipos' total run time : 3 seconds

Perhaps at the end of the run repeat all those error msgs (otherwise they gets buried in all the output).

A similar message would be useful when the tex file itself doesn't exist:

$ texexec nosuchfile.tex

TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

fixing engine variable : pdfetex

total run time : 1 seconds

Eventually I learnt that a run time of 1 second meant I'd mistyped the file name, but a message would be useful (and more helpful than prompting for the correct filename: I like Unix programs to not ask questions).

i'm not going to spend much more time on oldtexexec; i've added a message to newtexexec: TeXExec | processing document 'x' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | nothing to process TeXExec | runtime: 0.01 Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------