On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:04:30AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > >I think it is more portable (and much simpler) to use the \nonstopmode > >macro at the beginning of the file. > > We (I) use -interaction=nonstopmode in another incidence as well. We > should fix them both. > > >Also, at a time when everybody wants to use only almost-prerelease > >software in LyX, code like > > os.write(fd, r''' > > \documentstyle{article} > > \begin{document}\end{document} > > ''') > >has a rather 1980's taste :) More seriously, initializing the > >whole latex machinery takes time. > > Sorry, but what exactly smells stale in the above code?
When using \documentstyle instead of \documentclass, latex goes in 2.09 compatibility mode. -- Enrico