[NTG-pdftex] [pdftex-Feature Requests][4342] Output clearer for parsing it more easily

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Feature Requests item #4342, was opened at 2011-07-27 19:57
Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Sébastien Wilmet (swilmet)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Output clearer for parsing it more easily 
Category: None
Group: None
Resolution: None


Initial Comment:
Hello,

Parsing the output of pdfTeX is not an easy task. Thus it would be nice to have a clearer output.

The main issues I see currently:

- Opening and closing files with parentheses: when we find a closing parenthesis, we are not sure it closes a file.

- A context from the document is sometimes printed below a warning or an error, but those contexts don't have delimiters.

- A line can contain several information, and one information can be split into several lines. It doesn't make the parsing easier.


There was a mail on the mailing list about the same issue:
http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/pdftex/2009-March/007960.html

Best regards,
Sébastien

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