Re: [NTG-pdftex] Line breaks in pdftex log

at least I know there is no hope :) It occurred to me that a general option to allow any config setting from the command line (like ssh -o) sounds viable. As in (option name tbd): pdftex -cnf max_print_line=999 -cnf another=value ... It would parse the option argument like a line of texmf.cnf and putenv the variable=value, so the setting would override anything else. For integer and simple string values, as in your case, it seems it would be be portable across all known platforms. Wdyt? (Trying to set full path values this way across platforms would clearly have (shell) quoting difficulties, what with the $ and ; and other characters, but I don't think that's a problem.) --thanks, karl.